A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome
Volume 2
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
- Author: Richard Francis Burton
- Date Published: April 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108030328
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Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different languages and dialects. He turned to writing books in the 1850s and, over the remaining forty years of his life, published dozens of works and more than one hundred articles. He spent part of his career as British consul in Fernando Po (present-day Equatorial Guinea) in West Africa, and used this as an opportunity to explore the region. In 1861, he was sent on a mission, recounted in this two-volume work of 1864, to Dahomey (present-day Benin) to urge the king to put a stop to the local slave trade. In Volume 2 Burton discusses the human sacrifices that were taking place while he was there, and the negotiations with the king about slavery.
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108030328
- length: 424 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
14 continued. The King's 'So-sin custom'
15. Of the so-called Amazons and the Dahoman army
16. Addo-kpon, the Bush King's So-sin customs
17. Of the Dahoman religion
18. The Sin-Kwain, or water-sprinkling custom
19. Of 'The negro's place in nature'
20. The Y of triumph
21. Dahome and her capital
22. The firing to Whydah, and conclusion of the customs
23. The delivery of the message
24. Return to the seaboard
Conclusion
Appendices.
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