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Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, Vol. 2 of 2: With Notices of the So Called "Amazons," the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, ... the Negro's Place in Nature (Classic Reprint)
Mission to Gelele King of Dahome Vol 2 of 2 With Notices of the So Called Amazons the Grand Customs the Yearly Customs the Human Sacrifices the Negro's Place in Nature - Classic Reprint Author:Richard Francis Burton Excerpt from Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, Vol. 2 of 2: With Notices of the So Called "Amazons," the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature — At half-past 3 p.m., on the last day of 1863, we haramocked to our former place before the south-eastern or Komas... more »i Gate, and found the seance much as it was before. On this occasion, however, besides the standing , dish of three royal skulls, there were on the King's proper left, eleven "neptunes," or broad shallow brass pans of Abeokutan crania, nine or ten to each.
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