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Journal of a special Mission to the Court of
Dahomey, in May, June, and July, 1850.

The Custom Ee-que-ah-eh-bek, or Paying the
Troubadoursnbsp;-nbsp;-nbsp;-nbsp;- 1

Watering the Graves of the King\'s Great-Grand-
mother, Grandmother, and Mother -nbsp;- 152

The last Interview with the King, and Close of
the Mission -nbsp;-nbsp;quot;nbsp;quot;nbsp;\'

Dahoman Kingdom, who received the
Royal Bounty June 7th, 1849, with the
Amount given to each -nbsp;-nbsp;- 243

Paee 23. line 3. from bottom, for quot; Tappur quot; read quot; Tappah.quot;
24. line 7. from bottom, for quot; one quot; read quot; only one.

Troubadours - - -
Ek-bah-tong-ek-beh, or the Proces-
sion of the King\'s Wealth
The Platform of the Ah-toh
The human Sacrifices of the Ek-que- t
noo-ah-toh -nbsp;-nbsp;- J

to face Title.

„ p. 12

„ p. 33
» p. 44
„ p. 52

„ p. 36

The extraordinary reports that had reached
me of the royal magnificence and wealth
reputed to be displayed at the great cus-
toms of Dahomey, naturally increased my
anxiety for the arrival of the time when I
could test, by my own personal observa-
tion, the marvellous reports of others. It

was therefore witli no little eagerness
that, in the beginning of May, I commenced
my preparations for accepting the royal
invitation to be present at the ensuing
customs. On the 14th I arrived off Why-
dah. Embarking on board her Majesty\'s
ship Phoenix, Captain Wodehouse, I was
introduced to Mr. Beecroft, whom, doubt-
less, the reader knows as an enterprising
African discoverer, and the general pilot for
all the rivers, now appointed her Majesty\'s
consul in the Bights.
Land at May lAtJi.— Although the surf was very
j^.gij^ ^YiQ viceroy of Whydah had sent
off a number of canoes, we deemed it ex-
pedient to land; and, under a salute from
her Majesty\'s ship Kingfisher, reached the
shore with the loss of one case of twenty
muskets. When we arrived at the town of
Whydah, the British fort saluted us with
twenty-one guns. The following day we
visited the viceroy, who was very civil, and
after a complimentary conversation, retired
to our residence in the British fort.

to summon the viceroy to Abomey, he sent
to say he would call the following day, as
he was then too much engaged. The king, Appobt-
we are informed, has divided the appoint- Td:\'
ment held by the late Da Souza between
his three eldest sons, thus: Isidore, the
richest and eldest is cha-cha; Ignatio, the
second, a cabooceer; and Antonio, amigo-
del-Rey. Each is considered an official, and
pays as such a handsome tribute to the
king, who thus gets three small tributes,
in all, perhaps, equal to the extensive
donation of their late father.

May 17^A._The viceroy visited us to x^eviee.,
take leave, and received his present. Like
most of the sons of Ham, he was very diffi-
cult to satisfy; indeed I believe had we
given him the whole of the royal present,
he would have asked for more. He starts
on the 20th, and we have permission to
leave the following day: I say permis^
sion, for such it is, as travelling is not
allowed in Dahomey without a passport, in
the shape of his Majesty\'s stick. The vice-
roy rides the whole way,- rather an uncom-

fortaWe mode of travelling, considering he
has no saddle, and is held on. A fetish
custom is going on here, which keeps up a
din of singing, shouting, and firing, mght
and day; the great features are dancing
and begging, both performed by the fetish
The bene, peopk. As they pass, while the people
ttttis? prostrate themselves and give a few cowries,
each fetish man places his hand on the
heads of the prostrate blacks, and mutters
a benediction. This night the viceroy sent
to command that neither ourselves nor our
people should go out on pain of death, nor
that we should look out of the windows,
as he was going to make sacrifice ; whether
human or other we did not ascertain, but I

cha-cha, as an officer of the king of Da-
homey, had supplied canoes for our land-
ing, and, in consequence, we called upon
him to thank him for his attention, and
found him in a particularly ill humour,
partly, perhaps, our own fault. The house
of his father has been left to decay smce

the late Da Souza\'s death, and the furni-
ture is much dilapidated. We had appointed
11 a. m., and were on the spot at the
moment, and unfortunately before the an-
cestral hall was swept. Finding that he
was not prepared, I sent to say, if he did
not receive us in five minutes, we would
retire.

The furniture was any thing but good,
and much destroyed by a mischievous insect,
common to Africa, called the quot; bug-a-bug.quot;
At one end of the room was a full length
portrait of this chief of slave-dealers, not
unlike him — a dark mulatto with woolly
hair; but certainly a fancy sketch as far as
position was concerned. His right hand
rested on a secretary, on which lay papers,
inkstand, amp;c.: whilst in the background
Was an imaginary elysium, not often en-
joyed by these lords of the creation — a
library. These men never read, seldom
write, their whole souls are wrapt in sen-
sual enjoyment; in a half state of nudity,
smoking eternally, they spend the greater
part of their lives in their harems. After

explaining tlie cause of our visit, lie asked
if we were to Ibe present at the customs ;
and gave us an exaggerated account of the
sacrifices, which, in his opinion, were en-
tirely the fault of the British government
in keeping up the blockade. There is no
doubt of the poverty of the latter days of
the late Da Souza; all the property is in a

May 20t]i. — Having employed the pre-
vious day in preparing for our march,
hiring bearers and hammockmen with much
difficulty, we started our baggage, carried
by upwards of 200 men and women. As
soon as our baggage was well on its way,
we left the fort under a salute, and at
9 p. M. arrived at Torree, where we halted
for the night. The route we passed was
precisely the same as that described in my
former mission. We had now different
matters to contemplate: before it was no-
velty and nothing else; now the Hwae-
noo-ee-wha (occurring every year) might
be looked forward to with curiosity; but
with what horror must we contemplate the

were soon disturbed by the pomp, noise, rival at
and array of the cha-cha\'s arrival, at the \'
head of 140 soldiers, in uniform, armed
and accoutred. Besides the chief were
several Brazilian slave-merchants, all in
hammocks, and shaded by a huge gaudy
umbrella. In order to explain to his Ma-
jesty the difficulty of our position (in
sending our sticks to report our vicinity
and present our compliments), we added
the following Dahoman parable, — that the
leopard and the dog were bad travelling
companions. In the evening the messenger
returned, commanding us to rise at cock-
crow and proceed to Abomey.

beautiful cool morning, we walked to
Abomey. As we started, the cha-cha\'s
levees were also preparing for the march,
and gaudy hammocks and trappings were
preparing to carry these dealers in human

Just within the gate, on wheels, was a
large full-rigged brigantine, under all plain
sail, about t^vfenty feet long. Although a
present from the late cha-cha, she must have
been there as a compliment to our arriving
in ships, as at the foremast head she flew
a union jack, while dangling from her peak
lazily hung the tricolor; on her stern was
her name in golden letters, quot; Gezo Rey de
Daomee.quot; She was a pretty model, and,
in her position, a matter of curiosity and
wonder.

One of our interpreters, quot; Hijo de Why-
dah,quot; had a friend in the neighbourhood,
and to his house we retired to array; in
the meantime, with bands playing and
drums beating, the Brazilian host of gilt
and dirt arrived; and now commenced a
determination on the part of the cha-cha,
to be the great man of the occasion; but
like most who try to take up a position
they are not fitted for, he failed.

journal; in all matters of form, the present
one was similar, except that the cha-cha
liad taken ground within our position, and
we had to pass him for the reception.
As soon as we were seated he was called
quot;Up, and would have passed us had he not
^een checked, and compelled to take his
seat in a line with our position. His rage
was evident, and as he took his place he
muttered audibly, and in no good humour,
\' Politico! politico !quot; As the cabooceers
advanced, the battery thundered forth a
salute of twenty-one guns, in honour of
her Majesty the Queen of England, and
thirteen for each of her plenipotentiaries,
much to the annoyance of our companion,
who now gave up the contest, and quietly
followed our hammocks to the royal pavi-
lion, where he was received after us.

I have described a reception ; and this in
no way differed, except in the appearance
of the square, hung on all sides with
standards and flags ; among them upwards
of a dozen union jacks.

visit were many skulls, although time had
destroyed great numbers that in King
Adanooza\'s reign adorned the royal dwell-
ing : now the greater part were down ; and
were it not festival times, hopes might have
been deduced, that, disgusted with the
ghastly sight, the present king, who has
the appearance of a humane man, had re-
solved to discontinue the practice of expos-
■pie pavi- ing the human skull. Such is by no means
quot; the case; in the centre of the square
stands a small octangular building, which
was now adorned with 148 human skulls,
lately cleaned and varnished, the heads of
some of the victims of the dreadful tra-
gedy of Okeadon. This town, distant
about thirty miles north-west of Badagry,
was taken by surprise in 1848 by the Daho-
mans, through the treachery of a chief called
Olee-keh-kee, who lulled the suspicions of
the Okeadon people, and led the Dahoman
army within the walls. Such stratagems are
called making a fetish to divide the people;
and the commonalty believe the voodong,
or fetish, has the power, like the Almighty,

to turn the hearts of men. Opposite to
this golgotha was a handsome pavilion,
under which was a chair of state; and in
the rear of it, under a high thatched-roofed
gateway, sat the monarch, surrounded by
his amazon army, and the female ministers.
As before, we marched past three times,
and the disgusting prostrations of the
ininisters and cabooceers were duly per-
formed. The king, well dressed, was all
smiles and complacence, and welcomed us
to his capital^ with a command to drink.
I\'rinking is one of the preliminaries of all
African matters; but not having break-
fasted, we were glad, at noon, to get to our
quarters in the mayo\'s house without
having taken a compound known in the
United States by the name of quot; stone wall,quot;
consisting of rum, brandy, beer, lemonade,
and various kinds of liquors and wine, —
rather likely to be deleterious in an African
climate. The din of firing and music (if
the noise of the Dahoman martial bands
deserve the name) continued all day and

At each gate of the adjoining palaces
of Dangelah-Cordeh and Agrimgomeh, on
this particular day of the customs, it is
selon la rhgle for a minister to plant his um-
brella and stool, and surrounded by a host
of followers, who form an extensive circle,
receive the visits of his friends, and such
as have favours to ask or complaints to
make. At these levees there is much dis-
tribution of liquor; and, to amuse the
visitors, in the centre of each circle are
two bands and two of the royal troubadours,
who take it in turn to sing the praises of

Dressed in very gay attire, holding in
his hand a blue crutch stick, one of these
troubadours was reciting the military ex-
ploits of Gezo. As we arrived and ex-
changed compliments with the minister in
a glass of muscatel, and while a canopy of
high flat umbrellas was arranged over
head, his song commenced with a general
view of the royal conquests, and then re-

tunic of puce silk, and a pair
of damask crimson silk Turkish trowsers)
Were his; he had been a friend of Gezo\'s,
^nd thus is his memory honoured.quot;

He next sung in honour of her Majesty
Qneen Victoria, as friend to the king of
Dahomey, and the greatest of white mo-
narchs, as Gezo was of blacks: for which

records of the kingdom of Dahomey, and
the office, which is hereditary, is a lucra-
tive one. It is the only form of education
known to the Dahoman, except an almost
similar one regulating the succession of the
royal family, and amongst the higher
classes, as the right of primogeniture would
be laid aside if the firstborn could not
gain by heart all the legends and tales,
tragedies and histories, known by his parent.

arrived, attended by a guard of soldiers,
bands, banners, umbrellas, and attendants,
carrying changes of raiment, and each
being attended by her stool-bearer, and
umbrella. A canopy was soon formed, and
each seated on a stool of office; all were
showily dressed and ornamented with neck-
laces of coral and other beads, and under
the orders of one elderly lady, the eldest
sister of the king.

In vain the elder troubadour tried to
please ; the younger one was soon called,
and won the hearts of the sable princesses

by singing of the exploits of the amazon
army, and the praises of Gezo, the only
monarch in the world who held an amazon
army. When, after a time, he changed
to another theme, the ladies rose en
masse; and now followed a scene as de-
rogatory to royalty as it was disgraceful
to the sex: each produced a small bottle,
which it appeared her prerogative to have
filled with rum, and assailed the aged minis-
ter until all were satisfied; when, form-
ing procession, they marched off to the next
gate, where a similar scene was enacted.

A court fool strutted about, his face and
hands white-washed, and wearing, besides
gaudy attire, a slouched gold-laced hat;
his witticisms caused much mirth, but the
idiom was beyond our powers to understand.

All who approached the minister pro- The old
strated and kissed the dust, an unusual tJ^tr^u^
homage to any but the king, or fetish
people. One aged cabooceer had the ear
of the mayo, and by his whispering had
completely drawn his attention from the
mysteries of the revelation of the trou-

badour who angrily turned to the mob, and
said, \'\' the old man talked too much for a
quot; Dahoman.quot; A laugh ensued, which roused
the ire of the aged officer, who asked
sharply if they were laughing at him.
quot; By no means,quot; said the troubadour,
who having regained the attention of the
minister had resumed his good-humour,
quot;they are laughing at me:quot; he then re-
sumed his lay. After being seated for
about two hours we rose, and looking in
at the viceroy of Whydah\'s levee, were re-
galed with beer and lemonade gazeuse.

May — At 8 a.m., we were com-
manded to the king\'s presence, and in full
uniform proceeded to the palace square.
According to the etiquette of the Dahoman
court, we were gazed at by the multitude
for nearly an hour, surrounded by a host
of ministers, cabooceers, and officers. Du-
ring the customs, every morning at 6 a. m.
each minister and cabooceer at the head
of his retainers, and attended by his in-
signia of office, marched to the square,
round which he passes three times, pro-

strating himself each time in front of the
gate. During the ceremony, his soldiers
dance, fire, and sing, while some fifty dis-
cordant bands try to out-noise each other
in playing the royal quick step, the only
tune I heard at Abomey. There is some-
thing fearful in the state of subjection
m which, in outward show, the kings of
Dahomey hold their highest officers; yet,
when the system is examined, these pro-
strations are merely keeping up of ancient
customs. And although no man\'s head in
Dahomey can be considered warranted for
twenty-fours, still the great chief himself
would find his tottering if one of these
customs was omitted. There is an iron
tyranny which governs all, and over which
none appears to have control.

On the left of the square is a long
shed, in which the ministers and caboo-
ceers whose turn of duty it is, recline
during the day, ready at call; and here we
waited. Entering the palace, we were
shown to the door of the audience cham-
ber, and, displacing two magnificent pea-

cocks* his Majesty was feeding with com,
took our seats opposite a large couch bed-
stead, on which the dread monarch
reclined. There were present the mayo,
ee-a-boo-gan, camboodee, toouoonoo, and
caoopeh, and their coadjutors in the
harem ; or, the grand vizier of Whydah,
treasurer, head eunuch, and sub-treasurer.

A letter from her Majesty was, after a
few compliments, handed to the king, who,
breaking the seal, returned it to Mr. Bee-
croft to read.

Reading of T^e letter was read in short sentences,
and much conversation on the various points
Ihe kbg. intervened. His Majesty quot; appearedquot; to
receive the translation of its contents with
pleasure, and promised to consider Avell
the question quot; relative to the suppression
of the slave trade in his dominions.quot; He
directed us to notice his customs well, and
explained that we must remain spectators
for at least six weeks.

* Presents from the Royal Zoological Society,
through the late Mr. Duncan, Vice-Consul.

royal disbursements at the customs caused
much discussion among the ministers, and
led to remarks from us that the palm oil
trade, if cultivated, would, in a very few
years, be far more lucrative than the slave
traffic ; and that if the productions that
the soil of Dahomey was capable of were
raised, Dahomey might be the richest na-
tion in Africa.

The ministers and cabooceers, during the
day, paraded the town at the head of their
levees and pomp of state, showing them-
selves to the people : there was much noise
of shouting, firing, and discordant music.
On our return home we made up the royal
present, which the mayo and the ee-a-voo-
gan arrived to receive and take charge of
to the palace.

May mil. At 7. 30 a. m. we were sent
for by the king, and soon ushered into
the entrée of the same audience chamber
now occupied by an elderly dame, in the
uniform of an amazon, called the quot;mae-
hae-pah,quot; a sort of \'\' female grand vizier,quot;
and one whose name will figure often in

tMs journal. The old lady was very
busy winding up eight Sam-Slick clocks!
some upside down ! ! others on their sides,
and one, by mistake, in its proper position.
From this state we rescued them ; but not
before horrifying Abas-ego, the stately dame,
by stepping one foot within the sacred pre-
cincts of the harem. The possibility of a
recurrence was at once checked by the lady
and toonoonoo (the head eunuch) placing
themselves on their knees, one on each side
the threshold, and thus passing the clocks
to and fro. A watch and musical box sue.
ceeded, on the efficacies of each of which
v/e were called to dilate. As nothing is
considered finished that is not ended with
a drink of strong water, we bowed to the
mae-hae-pah in a glass of hollands and
departed, being obliged to carry away a
watch, of which (being rather stiff) I had
broken the glass (in showing how to open
it), and I had to replace it.

rfThe quot; Ee-que-ah-ek-beh,quot; paying the trouba-
toms, Ee- j^Q^rs Passing through another gateway,

we entered on an extensive square. On
the opposite side, under a rich canopy of
umbrellas of every colour, and ornamented
with strange devices, on a couch, reclined
the king. In his rear, and on each side, sat
his wives and female soldiers, in all about
three thousand, all well dressed. The
amazons in uniform, armed and accoutred,
squatted on their hams, their long Danish
muskets on end, with the stocks on the
ground. Among the crowd of amazons
were planted twenty-eight crutch, sticks,
painted blue, and each ornamented with a
bandanna handkerchief; these were the
sticks of office of the female troubadours,
and each, in her turn, had to sing the
romance of the history of Dahomey.

Where we stood was a sort of neutral
ground, between the male and female posi-
tion, not allowed to be passed by any male
but the king, who remains, on these occa-
sions, guarded by his amazons. WalloAv-
ing in the dirt, throwing dust on their
heads, at our feet were the mayo and ee-
a-voo-gan; just beyond them, on their

knees, the toonoonoo and mae-hae-pah, the
former explaining to the latter our rank.
The mae-hae-pah having reported our ar-
rival to the king, we bowed three times,
and facing about, took our position oppo-
site the throne, in a crowd of thousands
of ministers, cabooceers, officers, and sol-
diers (all on their hams), where a table
bearing a silver liquor stand* and glasses,
and, in the rear, chairs, marked our place.
Among the males were also twenty-eight
crutch-sticks of office of as many trouba-
dours.

A strict silence reigned, save when
broken, at short intervals, by the voice of
a herald proclaiming aloud the conquests
of the kings of Dahomey. The scene was
novel, and the dresses (from colour) mag-
nificent in appearance. We were no
sooner seated than two troubadours ad-
vanced and introduced themselves; then
(one at a time) sang, in metrical short

* Each day was a similar display ; and no doubt
in the king\'s idea we were well supplied, liqueurs and
liquors of all kinds, but no wines or light drinks.

verse, tlie praises of the monarch—his ex-
ploits in war, his numerous conquests, the
quot; glorious quot; achievements of his ancestors ;
and, as if sweet to the ears of the brother
who had deposed him, desecrated the name
of Adonajah, the dethroned monarch, as
one unfit to reign over a brave warlike
nation such as Dahomey. quot; Gezo,quot; sang
the troubadour, quot; was the choice of the
nation ! the liberal! the free-handed ! who
so generous as he ? who so brave ? Behold
him, the king of kings! Haussoo-lae-beh
Haussoo.quot; At the mention of his father\'s,
or any deceased relative\'s, name, all the
cabooceers, ministers, and officers had to
prostrate on the neutral ground and kiss
the dust.

After a lengthened and fabulous account
of the Attapahm war, they sang, in antici-
pation of future wai-s, quot;Who dares insult
the king, and shall not be punished ? There
are three yet to conquer! Abeahkeutah,
Tappur, and Yorubah: let the king name
one, and it shall fall.quot;

bashes, containing the skulls of kings,
ornamented with copper, brass, coral, amp;c.,
were brought in and placed on the neutral
ground. Some formed the heads of walk-
ing-sticks, distalFs; while those of chiefs
and war-men ornamented drums, umbrel-
las, surmounted standards, and decorated
doorways. They were, on all sides, in
thousands ; these calabashes were placed
on a newly raised heap of earth, which,
we were now told, covered the body of
a victim, sacrificed last night, to be placed
under the pole of the pavilion, to be raised
for his Majesty\'s court for to-morrow\'s
quot; custom.quot; Each skull, in each of these
calabashes, would form the illustration of
a fearful tragedy; but as all would be
tedious and disgusting I venture to relate
one—the tragic murder of Ah-chardee,
chief of the republic of Jena whose name
has already appeared in this journal.
The mur- On-Sih, king of Jena, died, and the heir-
fhlrfe^\'^\' apparent, Dekkon, hated and rejected by
JotIquot;^ the chiefs and people, fled for protection to
Abomey. Adonajah, king of Dahomey,

received him with regal state, but refused
to march an army to assist him. Adona-
jah\'s mother was a Jena woman. The
chance of so fruitful a slave hunt was too
tempting to the Dahoman people: already
disgusted with the cruelties of their mon-
arch, they, with one consent, called his
next brother, Gezo, to the throne; and
Adonajah, seized in his harem, was con-
fined in his palace; where, it is said, he
remains to this day, a drunkard and a
sensualist, enjoying every luxury money
can purchase or war seize ; wanting, how-
ever, the two great desires of our nature—
liberty and power. The new monarch in-
stantly headed an army, and marched on
what was expected an easy conquest, at-
tended by Dekkon.

In the meantime, Jena had declared her-
self a republic, and Ah-chardee, a brave
and intrepid chief, who had been chosen as
its president, repulsed the Dahoman army
with great slaughter. A second, and a
third year, and the slave hunt, was equally
unsuccessful.

Gezoo now resolved to elFect by stratagem
what he had failed to do by force. He
made an amicable peace, and the two chiefs
swore eternal friendship j in order to
cement which, hostages were sent to Jena,
and the president invited to witness the
Dahomey customs. He came, was loaded
with honours and presents, aud sent back
attended by an army as his guard. A
second year, and again the same farce was
enacted. The third year the hostages were
neither sought for nor sent. The friend-
ship was considered so firm, that Ah-char-
dee brought with him near 1000 traders;
but soon found that a false friend is worse
than a bitter enemy. Received as a chief,
he attended the customs; but on the
quot; customquot; called Ek-quee-noo-ah-toh, he
was seized, thrown to the executioners, bar-
barously decapitated, and all his traders
made slaves, and many of them sold. Such
is the story of Ah-chardee, whose skull is
confined in a copper casing, and is one of
the highest ornaments of this truly bar-
barian court.

Dekkon invited, returned to Jena, where
he was seized and beheaded ; the next
annual slave hunt destroyed Jena, whose
people are now wanderers, many of them,
under the republican standard of Abea-
Keutah, quot; under stone.quot;

stepped forward, singing in praise quot; of dours.
him,quot; they said, quot; who gave them birth.
We were women, we are now men ; Gezo
has borne us again, we are his wives, his
daughters, his soldiers, his sandals. W^ar
is our pastime, — it clothes, it feeds, it is all
to us.quot; Repeatedly describing some par-
ticular exploit, they would call upon the
multitude to laugh for joy at the glorious
deeds of Gezoo. First the female court ex-
ercised their risible faculties; then the
male set up a laughing chorus; at other
times they called on all to join chorus,
when the din was indescribable, as some fifty
bands chimed in. After a second set of
males had sung, a party of liberated Afri-
cans, dressed in European style, entered the
court-yard, and, standing in front of the

As a sort of interlude, Ah-hop-peh, the
king\'s brother, opened a palaver about the
propriety of removing the goods (to be
given away) to the market before the ac-
tual day; that quot; there were many stran-
gers,quot; he said, quot; in the town and the
temptation might be too much for them.quot;
quot;Besides,quot; he added, quot; if any body did steal,
even were he a king\'s son, he must suffer
death, and that opportunity makes the
thief.quot; After some discussion about ancient
rules, the king settled the matter by order-
ing that they should be removed at 4 a. m.
of the morning of the day they were to
be distributed.

At noon the king left his sofa, amid
firing of guns and shouting of courtiers of
both sexes, and, crossing the neutral ground,
drunk a glass of liqueur with us. He was
dressed in a blue flowered satin robe, san-
dals, and a gold-laced slouched hat, and
wore a handsome gold chain. As he drunk
all the male and female warriors danced

and sung, and fired off muskets; whilst
the eunuchs held up cloths, that no man
might see the king drink.

As each pair of troubadours finished their
song, twenty-eight heads of cowries, twenty-
eight pieces of cloth, four pieces of hand-
kerchiefs, and two gallons of rum were
presented — if to males by the mayo, if
to females by the mae-hae-pah — with a
lengthened speech on the liberality of the
monarch. Who paid them so highly for
remembering the glorious deeds of his an-
cestors ? This present was for the two
sergeants and their bands, in all about
thirty people.

Food was passed round to every body,
and a very good luncheon of fowls and
stews sent to us. At 3 p. m., as it rained
very hard, we asked and received permis-
sion to retire. The novelty of the scene
was sufficient to keep away ennu^ and
had it not been for the constant repeti-
tion of extreme disgust at the filthy praise
lavished on the monarch, we might have
been more amused.

The real Arrived at our quarters, we made our
of thrcL- calculation of the whole expenses, allowing
th^roy^i that each of the twenty-eight couples re-
ceived the same present as that already
stated, as we were told the king would send
in the evening his account of them. At
the most liberal allowance we found that
his Majesty might have paid to these keepers
of the records or human archives 1698
dollars\' worth of cowries and goods.

In the evening the mayo and ee-a-voo-
gan arrived, followed by several blacks,
carrying baskets of small white cowries,
which we had to count, as they described
the different sums, and their purposes.
The account ran as follows : — Given at
that day\'s custom, 7540 heads of cowries
(which, let the reader understand, is about
76 hogsheads of cowries), 644 pieces of
cloth, 92 iron armlets, 140 bottles of rum.
That the king had thrown away that morn-
ing 400 heads of cowries to the people, and
40 pieces of cloth, and intended to scramble
that night 800 heads of cowries. That
the whole of the day\'s expenses to the

I had expected his Majesty would en-
deavour to the utmost to deceive us with
regard to his wealth, but this was too
much; so sweeping the whole from the
table, I told them, in plain English, they
lied, and that if they could not bring
truth, we would not think the better of
them for telling such ridiculous falsehoods ;
and the sequel will show that such was the
proper course. They never pursued this
course a second time; and when they
brought the grand total for the whole cus-
toms, it but little exceeded what they
tried to make us believe had been dis-
bursed in one day!

These extraordinary exaggerations have
been before too well believed, and hence
it is that this monarch\'s wealth has been
so much enhanced: I believe it is quoted
at 300,000 dollars a year! !

God help the mark! I fear his Majesty
would decapitate the half of his prisoners
of war instead of a tithe, if he had such

an income in place of an exchequer re-
plenished, or not, at the slave-hunt. Before
he took leave for the day, the mayo desired,
on pain of death, that no one should walk
out during that night, as the king was
going to sacrifice. The terms used by the
mayo must not be regarded as a threat,
but as a friendly warning; for when the
drum or gong passes through the streets to
announce the commencement of the sacri-
fices, all who are found out of their houses
are immediately seized and added to the
list of victims. In the night, such a fate
might by accident have befallen even a
white man. Gezo, we are assured, has no
delight in human sacrifices, and continues
these awful scenes solely out of deference to
ancient national customs. To-night he is
to decapitate six.

mornino: when, on May 30th, we were m- the display
formed that a royal messenger had arrived king\'s
to summon us to the palace to witness the
custom to be performed on this day — the
Ek-bah-tong-ek-beh, or display of the king\'s
wealth. At a little distance from our gate,
the road was fenced olF, and a guard set
on the temporary gate, so as to prevent
any one from entering who was not in-
vited to bear a part in the proceedings of
the day. They who wished to inspect the
royal treasure and goods, which were to
be shown to the people, assembled in the
Ahjahee market-place. When we arrived
in the palace-square, at the foot of the
ladder leading to the palaver-house, on each
vol. ii.nbsp;d

side were three homan heads recently de-
capitated, the blood still oozing ; on the
threshold of the entrance gate was a pool
of blood from six human sacrifices, over
which we had to step. In the square was
a huge model of an elephant caparisoned
on wheels, on which the king is drawn
when going short journeys. The king
never walks, nor rides on horseback; but
is either carried in a hammock or drawn
on this elephant or in a carriage or wheeled
chair. In the centre of the court-yard
stood a crimson tent or pavilion forty feet
high, ornamented with emblems of human
and bullock\'s heads, skulls, and other de-
vices equally barbarous and disgusting.
On the top was the figure of a Dahoman
standard-bearer (or half-heads, as they are
called, having half their heads shaved),
bearing a standard, having for a device a
skull in a calabash, standing on three other
skulls. About the yard were many flags,
of all colours, some bearing, as their de-
vices, men cutting off others\' heads, and
others tying prisoners, and many national

In and about the pavilion were the fe-
male host of ministers, cabooceers, ama-
zons, wives, and virgins. The king had
not arrived; all were gaily dressed, and,
as yesterday, squatted, armed, and ac-
coutred.

On the neutral ground, where we stood,
facing the pavilion (while the mayo and
ee-a-voo-gan grovelled in the dust, like
Chinese mandarins ko-towing to the royal
chair), roamed an ostrich, an emu, several
dwarfs, hunchbacks, and albinos, besides
troops of dogs almost of every country and
variety. Having bowed three times, and
exchanged signs with those two grave
functionaries, diviners, and exchangers of
the mysteries of the opposite sexes, the
mae-hae-pah and too-noo-noo, we faced about
and beheld much the same scene as that of
yesterday, except that it was encircled by
a far more gaudily dressed assemblage of
chiefs and soldiers, grouped under umbrellas
of every hue. All the ministers and caboo-

ceers Avere arrayed in red striped flowing
robes, laden with necklaces of coral and
other beads. Each wore a scimetar, a
short sword, and a club.

Presently, under a salute of twenty-one
guns fired from musketoons and small
brass pieces within the court and cannon
outside, the king arrived, dressed in a
white silk flowing robe, flowered in blue,
and a gold-laced hat, and took his seat
on a sofa under the pavilion. Forthwith,
the bands struck up, and the heralds pro-
claimed that Gezo, the Leopard and the
Hawk, had taken his place; fifty-eight
ministers and cabooceers at the same time
marched passed three times in single file,
and at the third time all prostrated and
kissed the dust. So soon as this ceremony
was concluded, the business of the day
commenced, the Ek-bah-tong-ek-beh (quot; car-
rying goods to market quot;). This is a public
display of the monarch\'s wealth, carried
on the heads of slaves through the town
to the market, and back again. The pro-
cession consisted of between 6000 and

7000 people ; and in order to give an entire
description of this despot\'s Avealth, a pro-
gramme of the whole will be annexed,
while I shall, in this journal, merely give
an outline.

officer, from the cabooceers to eunuchs, had
been brought to a close, the king left his
throne, and passing the neutral ground,
came towards us. We rose to salute him;
and after a few compliments, and explana-
tions that owing to the heavy appearance of
the weather the dresses were by no means
gay, he returned to his throne. Some more
prostrations of native traders from Whydah
and Haussa Malams followed, and whilst
some fourteen liberated Africans shouted
Viva el rey., 200 male and 200 female offi-
cers kissed the dust. Forty female standard
bearers next passed, preceding his Majesty\'s
female relations, who all kissed the dust;
and then followed in single file 2539
women, carrying various articles: then 1590
carried cowries. Many bore silver orna-
ments of all kinds; some large and ill-

shaped, fashioned by Dahoman artisans.
Lest we should not fully appreciate his
supposed wealth, Hootoojee and the king\'s
artisan brother were seated in our vicinity
to explain the value of the various articles.
A reference to the programme will satisfy
the reader that his Majesty could not have
formed any precise idea of the actual use
of some portions of his wealth, or he would
not have exposed them to enhance the idea
of his riches; a few carriages were drawn
past, and, at intervals, ladies of the harem
trooped by, attended by guards of amazons,
quot; the royal banner, and all the pride, pomp,
and circumstance of glorious war,quot; such
as drums ornamented with one or two dozen
skulls, interlaced with jaw bones. One
umbrella, that shaded a sable princess, was
decorated with 148 human jaw bones, and
many of these ladies, besides being attended
by slaves carrying swords and shields,
bearing these ghastly ornaments, carried at
their girdles each a polished skull drinking-
cup: these latter groups did not leave the
yard, but took up their positions under

trees, and, in opera style, sang and danced
at times. Towards tlie evening, some 2000
amazons were collected in close column,
under arms, and in tlieir front all the
ladies of the royal family and harem.
Mingled with the procession would be
groups of females from various parts of
Africa, each performing the peculiar dance,
of her country. When these were not being
performed, the ladies would now seize their
shields and dance a shield-dance; then a
musket, a sword, a bow and arrow dance,
in turns. Sometimes one would step for-
ward and harangue the monarch in verse,
whilst the chorus was taken up by all,
the amazons and the rest of the people;
and, lastly, having expended all their praises,
they called upon the king to come out
and dance with them, and they did not call
in vain.

is by no means a good dancer, yet what
a king performs courtiers will ever ap-
prove. Loud shouts of applause crowned
the royal exertions, and amid the din of

firing, shouting, singing, and dancing, his
majesty, hidden as usual by cloths from
public gaze, drank to his sable thousands
of wives. The dance was a working of all
the muscles of the body, the hands and
feet moving to a quick step ; there is no-
thing graceful, nor strikingly active, while
to dance well requires great muscular la-
bour.

These scenes were very enlivening, and
certainly the most picturesque and theatri-
cal of any out-of-door fête I have ever
witnessed in any part of the world ; but
there was no wealth, no riches in reality,
although the gaudy colours were equally
pleasing to the eye. The collection of a
country fair in England, carried in a simi-
lar manner, would by far have exceeded
the wealth displayed, and the dresses of a
minor theatre would, except in silver and
coral, have excelled in point of value and
show. Yet, in a country like Dahomey, it
was an immense collection.

During the day, rum and food were dis-
tributed to all, and, as usual, a luncheon

was supplied to us. Our lunclieoii consists,
daily, of fowl soup in a washhand-basin,
and, generally, stewed fowls, mutton, be-
sides a host of country dishes, rife with
palm oil and peppers, yam, and cassado;
the knives and forks I was strongly tempted
to steal, as they were worthy, in point of
antiquity, of the British Museum, and, like
many of the royal treasures, might have
been the property of Tocoodoonoo, the
founder of Dahomey. Liquors and liqueurs
were always before us.

The procession and groups consisted of
between 6000 and 7000 people, and the
amount of money displayed in cowries
(the currency of Dahomey) was 5000 dol-
lars, which, I should say from my ex-
perience, would be the whole of the royal
exchequer, in that form of money.

There was much to disgust the white T^ehuman
man in the number of human skulls and
jaw bones displayed; but can the reader
imagine twelve unfortunate human beings
lashed hand and foot, and tied in small
canoes and baskets, dressed in clean white

These and an alligator and a cat were
the gift of the monarch to the people —
prisoners of war, whose only crime was that
they were of the nation of Attahpahm, which
nation Dahomey had picked out for de-
struction ; and vce metis! These men were
not soldiers, but agriculturists, not living
in the protection of a town, nor found
under arms, but discovered peaceably in
possession of their farms; they had seen
the aged of their families murdered, and
the young and strong seized, and being
chosen, were to become the sacrifices to the
vitiated appetites of the soldiers, made by
the monarch, who, to show his liberality,
presented able-bodied, strong men as vic-
tims.

When carried round the court, they bore
the gaze of their enemies without shrinking;
at the foot of the throne they halted, while
the mayo presented each with a head of
cowries, extolling the munificence of the
monarch, who sent it to them to purchase

During the day, the mae-hae-pah and too-
noo-noo were continually employed in pass-
ing messages from the king to us, concern-
ing the different articles displayed. Much
rum was distributed to the various attend-
ants, and about 800 dollars in cowries to
the different groups.

On the last day of May commenced the
custom of the Ek-que-noo-ah-toh-meh, or
throwing the presents from the Ah-toh.
It is on this day that the human sacrifices
are offered by the king, his gifts to his
people. In the centre of the Ah-jah-ee
marketplace, a platform was erected twelve
feet in height, enclosed by a parapet breast
high. The whole was covered with cloths
of all colours, and surmounted by tents,
gaudy umbrellas, and banners of varied
hues and devices, among which, as usual,
were several union jacks. On the west
front of the Ah-toh, which must have been
at least 100 feet square, was a barrier
of the prickly acacia, and within this the
victims for the day\'s sacrifice lashed in bas-
kets and canoes as on yesterday. A dense

naked mob occupied tke area, whilst a
guard of soldiers prevented them from
bearing down the barrier. Beyond in all
directions were groups of people collected
round the banners and umbrellas of the
different ministers and cabooceers.

The naked mob consisted of the soldiers
of the king, his brothers and sons, the
ministers and higher cabooceers: each
carried a grass cloth bag round his waist;
and the actual business of the day was a
public display of the generosity of the
king, who scrambles goods of all kinds
among these warriors.

The king had preceded us, and, as we
took our seats under a canopy to the right
of the Ah»toh, his Majesty appeared on
the platform, under the shade of a hand-
some umbrella of crimson velvet and gold,
dressed in an old black waistcoat, a white
night-cap, and a cloth round his loins;
and was greeted with loud shouts from the
military expectants, who now formed into
bands, and carrying their officers on their
shoulders, marched- past the royal posi-

tion, the king\'s own taking the lead : this
they did three times and then halted en
masse^ in all about 3000, immediately under
the king\'s position, who harangued them
on the impropriety of fighting during the
scramble, and having thrown a few cowries
by way of trial, commanded us to join him.

The plat- Ascending the ladder, the appearance
was truly novel: in three separate heaps,
in different parts of the platform, were
3000 heads of cowries, several heaps of
cloths, rum in kegs, and rolls of tobacco:
one side was occupied by tents for the
royal wives. While others were grouped
about in different parts of the platform,
in gaudy dresses, at the upper end stood
the king surrounded by his ministers, and
at the lower were, under canopies of
showy umbrellas, two tables bearing liquors
and glasses, one for the cha-cha, the other
for ourselves. After taking our seats, we
were directed to stand under an umbrella
facing the mob, and now commenced in
real earnest the scramble, the king la-
bouring hard, throwing now cowries, cloth.

tobacco, amp;c. The cowries appeared to be
the property of the lucky ones who caught
them, but the cloths were instantly handed
to the riders, and if not, a fight ensued
that was terrible to behold.

The naked multitude emitted an efilu-
vium only to be compared to the fetid
atmosphere of a slave ship; and as the
mass oscillated there arose a vapour like the
miasma of a swamp, as they were perfectly
bathed with perspiration.

Besides throwing gifts to the soldiers,
his Majesty was all smiles, and liberality in
his donations to the ministers, and a num-
ber of others (as a reference to the pro-
gramme will show) ; but to no one was any
large sum given. At one time, he sent us
a basket containing ten heads of cowries
and two pieces of cloth as a present, and
at another a constant supply of cowries
and cloths to scramble among the mob.

Among the recipients of the royal bounty
were two kings and several ambassadors,
including one from Ashantee, called quot; Cocoa
Sautee.quot;

Towards noon the brigantine on wheels
was drawn up outside the mob, and a boat
on wheels put off to discharge her cargo of
rum, tobacco and cowries, which were
added to the heaps on the platform. The
king\'s party of soldiers keeping together
were evidently the principal recipients,
and we soon found that something like an
equal distribution among them was aimed
at. A captain of musquetoon-men named
Poh-veh-soh, at once a military officer,
court fool and headsman, caught my at-
tention, and I threw him three pieces of
cloth full of cowries ; on receiving the third,
he was ordered off the ground. Rum was
distributed to the elite on the platform;
and a breakfast provided for us, besides
food for the ministers and wives.

By two o\'clock, one of the heaps of 1000
heads of cowries had been thrown away,
and part of another given to the higher
classes. Some three or four hundred pieces
of cloth, a few kegs of rum, and rolls of
tobacco having also disappeared, his Majesty
retired to rest awhile.

Would to God that I could here close Thedeceit-
the account of this day\'s proceedings, S^l
simply detailing the barbarous policy of
raising the worst passions of man, in order
to make people believe in the profuse distri-
bution of a pay, which, if doled out indi-
vidually, would be a mere pittance. The
crowd can have no idea of the sum
scrambled for ; all they know is, that a
continuous shower is kept up for seven
hours, and they consider it must be im-
mense. Even if a man gets none, he is
content to know that he has been unfor-
tunate; and, should he proclaim his ill luck,
he would not be believed, each supposing
the other to be disguising the real quan-
tity he has gained.

During the royal absence a dead silence The human
reigned as if by general consent; when by quot;quot; quot;
accident it was broken, it was reinforced
hy the eunuchs sounding their metal bells,
tolling the knell of eleven human beings,
j-nbsp;Out of fourteen now brought on the plat-

form, we, the unworthy instruments of the
Divine will succeeded in saving the lives of

three. Lashed as we described before, these
sturdy men met the gaze of their persecu-
tors, with a firmness perfectly astonishing.
Not a sigh was breathed. In all my life I
never saw such coolness so near death. It
did not seem real, yet it soon proved fright-
fully so. One helHsh monster placed his
finger to the eyes of a victim who hung
down his head, but, finding no moisture,
drew upon himself the ridicule of his fiend-
ish coadjutors. Ten of the human offer-
ings to the bloodthirsty mob, and an alli-
gator and a cat, were guarded by soldiers,
the other four by amazons.

Three are In the mean time the king returned,
and, calling us from our seats at the further
end of the platform, asked if we would wish
to witness the sacrifice. With horror we
declined, and begged to be allowed to save
a portion of them. After some conversa-
tion with his courtiers, seeing him wavering,
I offered him a hundred dollars each for the
first and last of the ten, while, at the same
time, Mr. Beecroft made a similar offer for
the first of the four, which was accepted,

and the three were immediately unlashed
from their precarious position, but forced
to remain spectators of the horrid deed to
be done on their less fortunate countrymen.
What must have been their thoughts ?

place of sacrifice. Immediately under the
royal stand, within the brake of acacia
bushes, stood seven or eight fell ruffians,
some armed with clubs, others with scime-
tars, grinning horribly. As we approached,
the mob yelled fearfully, and called upon
the king to quot; feed them, they were hungry.quot;
It was at a similar exhibition that Achardee
(President of Jena), while looking into the
pit with the king, was seized, thrown down,
and murdered on the spot. Disgusted be-
yond the powers of description, we retired
to our seats, where also the cha-cha had
retreated ; not so his brothers, for I regret
to say they remained delighted spectators
of the agonies of the death of these inno-
cent victims.

And, witli oppressive ray the roseate bloom
Of beauty blasting, gives the gloomy hue
And feature gross; or worse, to ruthless deeds.
Mad jealousy, blind rage, and fell revenge
Their fervid spirit fires.quot;

As we reached our seats, a fearful yell
rent the air. The victims were held high
above the heads of their bearers, and the
naked ruffians thus acknowledged the mu-
nificence of their prince. Silence again
ruled, and the king made a speech, stating
that of his prisoners he gave a portion to
his soldiers, as his father and grandfather
had done before. These were Attahpahms.
Having called their names, the one near-
est was divested of his clothes, the foot
of the basket placed on the parapet, when
the king gave the upper part an impetus,
and the victim fell at once into the pit
beneath. A fall of upwards of twelve feet
might have stunned him, and before sense
could return the head was cut ofi^, and the
body thrown to the mob, who, now armed
with clubs and branches, brutally mu-
tilated, and dragged it to a distant pit,

where it was left as food for the beasts
and birds of prey. After the third victim
had thus been sacrificed, the king retired,
and the chiefs and slave-dealers completed
the deed which the monarch blushed to
finish.

There was not even the poor excuse
that these men had committed a crime, or
even borne arms against the Dahomans. •
No; they were murdered, innocent men, at
least as far as their barbarous tyrant knew;
and if not, may God forgive them in the
world to come !

As we descended the ladder, we came on
another scene of this tragedy. Each in the
basket in which the victim had sat a few
moments before, lay the grizzly bleeding
heads, five on one side, six on the other.
We could not have expected any mercy
would have been shown, and therefore
were prepared for this spectacle.

Murder must work its own suppression;
and a nation that practises such foul deeds
will, it is to be hoped, soon be forced to
mend its ways and change its customs.

quot; There is no sure foundation set in blood,
No certain life achiev\'d by others\' death.quot;

The expenses of the day to the king in
all did not exceed 2,000 dollars, as heaps of
cowries and other articles were still on the
platform when we left, and all was over.

June 1.—After the distressing excitement the review
of the tragedy of the sacrifices, it was with troops,
no little feeling of relief, that, on our re-
turn to the scene of yesterday\'s slaughter,
we found the platform of the sacrifices
removed, and the ground in course of
being prepared for the great review, called
the ek-beh-soh ek-beh. The stench of the
blood still, however, pervaded the spot
from which the slain had not been removed.
The Ah-jah-hee market was now covered
with numerous bodies of troops, male and
female, forming and marching past our
position in slow time. We thus had an
opportunity of carefully counting their
numbers, and made them out to be in all
rather less than 7,000 under arms, of
which 4,400 were males and the remainder

amazons. All were armed, accoutred, and
dressed as nearly as possible alike, in blue
and white tunics, short trowsers and caps,
bearing the different devices of their regi-
ments. First came the retainers of each
cabooceer, then those of the ministers, the
king\'s sons and brothers, and lastly, of the
king.

The order was thus in each squadron :
the armed men, the standard, stool, and
other insignia, and then the officer under
his umbrella of state, followed by a band.
The amazons next marched by in similar
array; each army had in its war drums,
standards, war-stools, shields ornamented
with human skulls, and other ghastly em-
blems of barbarous warfare.

Scarcely had the whole passed than the
king arrived on the ground, carried in a
state hammock with gaudy hangings. His
Majesty was in tunic and short trowsers;
the only ornaments were neat military ac-
coutrements. To-day the whole nation was
military; mother, wife, daughter, minister,
even the hunchbacks and dwarfs, were

The king took his seat under a canopy
of umbrellas, and placed us on his right:
about the royal person Avere the ministers
and high military officers; at the foot of
the throne sat the too-noo-noo; and now in
the distance, ready at call, appeared the
mae-hae-pah, a soldier too. As soon as
the king was seated, the troops, male and
female, marched past in quick time; 77
banners and 160 huge umbrellas enliven-
ing the scene ; while 55 discordant bands,
and the shouts of the soldiers as they hailed
the king en passant, almost deafened the
observers.

The royal male regiments separating Theskir-
from the main body, headed by an emblem the male
of a leopard on a staff, skirmished towards
the royal canopy, keeping up a constant
independent fire. In advance was a band
of blunderbuss-men in long green grass
cloaks, for bush service. Halting in front,
they held aloft their muskets with one
hand, while with the other they rattled a

small metal bell, which each soldier carried,
and yelled and shouted. Some having light
ornamented pieces, flung them into the air,
to catch them again. This is the Dahoman
salute ; and in answer to it, his Majesty
left his war-stool, and, placing himself at
their head, danced a war-dance. First, he
received a musket and fired it, then danced,
advanced, and retired ; he then crept cau-
tiously forward, and, standing on tiptoe,
reconnoitred ; this he did several times,
dancing each time a retreat : at last,
making certain of the position of the
enemy, he received and fired a musket,
and this was the signal for all, with a war-
cry, to rush on and recommence firing.
On their recall, having again saluted, the
king returned to his tent, and told us he
had been to war.

The soldiers next saluted Domingo José
Martins, the slave-dealer, who had just ar-
rived from Whydah in sixteen hours (hav-
ing placed relays of hammockmen along
the road). They thanked him for muskets
and powder he had given them for the

order, and having saluted the king he dance and
joined them, and again performed a war
dance. They also sang in praise of the
liberality of the slave-dealer, who gave
them muskets and powder to make war
upon innocent neighbours; to enrich him-
self by supplying the market with slaves.
These are the evils to uproot: and yet this
very man is directly trading with, and re-
ceives these muskets and this powder from,
British agents in British shipping. The
chorus of their song ran as follows : —

canopy in tlie centre for their officers, who
sat on stools, squatted on their hams. In
this undignified but usual position, with
their long Danish muskets standing up like
a forest, they remained observers of the
remainder of the operation. This now
became a sort of military levee, at which
each chief prostrated before the king, in-
troduced his officers, and reported the num-
bers of his retainers.

Having taken ground at the further end
of the field, one at a time, the squadrons
enfiladed between two fetish houses, and
commenced an independent open fire, and
deploying into line, passed to the right of
the royal stool, while the officers came up
at double quick time, prostrated them-
selves, danced, fired muskets, and then re-
ceived each as a mark of favour a bottle of
rum. After the cabooceers had thus passed,
the ministers performed the same ceremony.
Among them was Seiior Ignatio Da Souza,
the slave-dealer and cabooceer, at the head
of his brother the cha-cha\'s levies. As they
danced down towards the royal seat, the

A regiment advanced guarding the idols The pro-
of the military fetishes, the king again left his the mili-
stool, and poured some rum on black pud-
dings of human blood which were carried
hy the fetish priests. At seven the last body
had passed, that of the mayo\'s company of
300 men, which ended the review.

Order and discipline were observable
throughout, uniform and good accoutre-
ments general, and except in the most
civilised countries in the world, and even
there as regarded the order of the multi-
tude, no review could have gone off better.
ThCTe was no delay, no awkwardness, no
accident: aides-de-camp were rushing about
with orders; it was noble and extremely
interesting. Every facility was offered us
towards acquiring information, and, except
an exaggeration in numbers, truly given.
The king has great pride in his army and
often turned to us with an inquiring eye
as the amazons went through their evolu-
tions: he is justly proud of these female

June 2nd. — Sunday, and by good luck
no barbarous customs enacted that we
were called upon to witness, although an
intimation that we were not to walk abroad
at night, told of foul murder. The mayo
called He is a little old man with good
Roman features, nothing of the negro,
about seventy-five years of age, and a con-
firmed slave-dealer, his forefathers were,
and he has been such all his life. Here is a
difficulty : the power of the mayo is very
great, the monarch dare not enter into a
treaty unless the miegan and the mayo co-
incide. The miegan, a man of forty, is also
a slave-dealer by descent, as also are the
camboodee and ee-a-voo-gan, reaping all
the benefits, and deriving luxuries, from a
trade of which they have not sense to know
the horrors. In conversation, the minister
complained that British goods could not be
had in the same quality as those sold in
former years ; and, producing a piece half
silk half cotton, he said the king had had

it twenty years, and Lad directed him to
ask if we could procure more. Having
explained to him that an honest-minded
British merchant would not trade with
slave-dealers, and that such as did trade
could not be expected to offer good articles,
we promised to make a note of the royal
wish.

Mr. Beecroft showed him some silk hand-
kerchiefs, such as are bartered on the
rivers, and told him if he would grow palm
oil he might have ship-loads of such; and
explained to him the position of the natives
in those countries that had relinquished
the barbarous infamous slave trade, and
had become civilised by intercourse\' with
honest traders, and the all-civilising pow-
ers of trade, but I fear to little purpose.
Pocketing two gold rings and a handker-
chief he bid us good-bye, explaining that
the slave trade was very lucrative, and
it would take some time to grow the palm-
trees.

Steps of the palaver house were again six
newly cut off heads, and a pool of human
blood lay clotted on the threshold of the
entrance-gate. To-day was a repetition of
the custom called quot;ek-bah-tong-ek-beh,quot;
quot; carrying goods to market,quot; and a beau-
tiful day.

As we entered there was a perfect blaze
of dress; the ministers in long cloaks of
crimson silk velvet, highly ornamented
with gold embroidery. The king wore a
large slouched hat, covered with gold lace
and tassels, a satin white robe, with blue
flowers, and sandals almost of solid silver;
you could not see the leather. The ama-
zons were in scarlet and crimson tunics,
and their officers ornamented with gold

The principal ladies of the harem, and
elderly fem.ale ministers, and those holding
the rank of royal mother, grandmother,
amp;c., up to the sixteenth generation, were
magnificently dressed in silks, satins, and
velvets, hats and plumes of the time of
Charles the Second. But these rich dresses

did not save the wearers from the eternal
prostration. As before, the amazons to-
wards the afternoon had collected round
som^e trees, and in front were the paussee,
a collection of royal wives, who sang,
danced, and declaimed at intervals, in the
fashion of an opera; while the procession
passed carrying goods to market, for the
particulars of which the reader must turn
to the Appendix.

Many of the articles were the same, ex-
cept that for the cowries, cloths, silks, and
satms were substituted. A great number
of carriages were drawn past, of all sizes,
from the family coach to the Bath chair,
some handsomely carved: one, a glass-
coach, the handiwork of Hoo-ton-gee, a na-
tive artist — a square with four large glass
windows, on wheels. Some of the positions
taken up were beautifully picturesque.

The too-noo-noo and mae-hae-pah were
very busy between the king\'s and our posi-
tion, carrying reports of the value and age
of different articles. Among the display
vol. 11.

was a wooden model of a hill in the Kan-
garoo country, considered by the natives
impregnable, but taken by storm by the
Dahoman amazons. To inspect this we
were called to the neutral ground.

The late Mr. Duncan, Avith a military
eye, requested to be allowed to view this
fortress, as he travelled by it attended by
a Dahoman guard, on his way to the Kong
Mountains; the request was indignantly
refused, with an intimation that he had
better quit the neighbourhood as early as
possible. For this quot;insultquot; the king of
Dahomey made war. The hill was sur-
mounted by a large city built on a table
land, perpendicular in the rear and sides,
and sloping down to a point in front; this
was guarded by a high stone rampart,
and entered only by one gate. On the hill
were two tanks for water in case of siege,
and on the right side a deep cave for the
besieged to retreat to. On this side the
rampart was escaladed by quot; Ee-ah-wae,quot; one
of the amazon generals, who, as quot; English
mother,quot; had the post of honour; and her

We were next called to inspect a bat-
tery of wall pieces and blunderbusses, be-
sides a seven-barrelled arquebuse. His
Majesty sent to say that he wanted a few
more; but, said the mayo, pointing to one
with a percussion lock, not of that useless
kind, but flint locks.

Towards the close his Majesty invited
i^s into his tent, to the undisguised asto-
mshment of 200 wives and virgins who
squatted around the throne, a large sofa,
on which were some European children\'s
toys, as dogs and cats, and over which was
a pure white large umbrella. Although the
tent was forty feet high, and very thick
several dimple-faced ladies sat under crim\'
sou velvet parasols, covered with jewels
Ihese were the favourite wives. His Ma
jesty having explained to us that the tent
was very old, requested me, as I was going

all tlie actors being on the stage, now sing-
ing and shouting a chorus to a laudatory
lay of an ex-wife of the chamber, at 6 p.m.
we took leave, attended to the centre of
the outer court by the king and all his
court, and were directed to take dinner,
and be ready to attend his Majesty on a

At 7 we again started, and followed the
royal host of males, the amazon host bring-
ing up the rear, to the Ah-jah-ee market,
where the king and nobles assembled to
eat pork puddings in a temporary canvass
shed. We were supplied with a large
calabash full of these dainties, but as it
was very dark we did not eat of them.
The king sent us a present of four heads
of cowries, and, taking leave, we reached
home at 10. His Majesty\'s expenses in
gifts would be about 300 dollars\' worth of
cowries.

June UJi. — By royal desire, we at-
tended this morning to measure the tent ^
and sofa, and take a plan of it, that the
new ones should be like it. In the yard
were arranged 800 heads of cowries, and

about one pipe of rum; these, we were told,
were to pay the parties employed yester-
day, and about 200 heads were given away
before we left. In the evening the mayo,
whom had been constantly attacking on
the subject, brought the three victims we
purchased. The reason they had not been
sent before was obvious from the emaciated
appearance of one, who was suffering from
dysentery brought on by fright; we gave
him some diarrhcea powder, which soon
relieved him, and we clothed and fed the
whole.

June —Every morning we rise at Our daily
daylight, and take a long walk. The roads
in all directions are beautiful, and the
scenery still more so; in the immediate
neighbourhood the farms are very neat,
and the cultivation in high order; game is
abundant, and constantly rising close to
the road. At 7 we take a cigar, and
breakfast at 8; then, unless a custom day
write until 4, walk till 6, and dine; after
which stroll till 8 ; then a cigar, a glass of
grog, and to bed.

Several grandees, besides sending tlieir
sticks in the morning, have called; among
them, the Chief of the Hunchbacks, who is
a great man. Numbers of the royal family
have also paid us visits; but as each expects
a present, we are not over-anxious for the
honour. To-day the king\'s artisan brother
called, and, seeing he had interrupted us
in our writing, soon took leave, saying, quot; I
am a working man myself, and when em-
ployed do not like visitors.quot;

When we are out walking everybody is
very civil indeed; yet the king directs our
interpreters, on pain of punishment, not to
let us go alone: thus we have, generally,
three or four followers. This is not so much
with an idea that any one would insult us,
as that we might infringe on the jealousy
of the fetish men by unguardedly entering
into the precincts of sacred ground. Thus,
for instance, on leaving the Cannah gate
one morning, I found one of the two roads
which lead from it closed by a spar laid
across ; passing down the other, I was told
this was the first day of the new moon, and

that the road would be closed until the next
moon, when the thoroughfare would again
be changed. If a native passes this sacred
ground with his hat on, he is seized, and,
unless he can pay pretty handsomely, kept
in prison, and sold to pay his debts there
incurred.

June m.—\'WQ are constantly annoyed
in our walks at finding one or other of the
roads closed; and, as for attempting some
leading to the palace, we find that almost
useless ; the bells of the sable beauties are
constantly warning man to run and hide
himself. I was one morning near three
quarters of an hour endeavouring to enter
the Cumassee gate, from the constant suc-
cession of royal wives carrying food from
one palace to the other. This morning, as
we were leaving, we were desired not to
go to the eastward, as 4000 of the king\'s
wives (amazons, amp;c.) were gone forth to
bathe.

A body of liberated Africans called upon Liberated
us; some had paid 300 dollars in Bahia
and Rio for their freedom, men from Yori-

bah and Bornou, and had landed in high
hopes of reaching their country. Such was
not their lot ; they were compelled to trade
in Whydah ; nor can they leave it, unless
with the chance of being again sold, if
caught by the Dahoman guards. They are
obliged to give up their trade, and attend
the annual customs, spending, as they ex-
plained, their year\'s gains in the journe}^.

Many of them are slave-dealers ; indeed,
one of the greatest slave-merchants, José
Almeida, is one of their class. An African,
a soi-disant servant now of Hutton and Co.,
arrived on a mission from that house to
the king, concerning some duties paid for
the trade at Badagry ; this is the man
spoken of in my former journal, a well-
known quot; friend quot; to the slave-trade.
The viceroy JuuB ItJi.—Walked to a country called
of Whydah,nbsp;hereditary possession of the

viceroy of Whydah ; but the king, who is
father of the nation, takes great liberties
with his subjects\' rights and privileges.
On appointing\' Dagbah to the vice-regal
stool at Whydah, the king called upon his

second brother to assume the chiefdom of
the clan (for such is the proper term for
African families), and Dagbah has now
the privilege of being considered lord and
master only when, as the eldest son, he
makes the yearly sacrifice to the tombs of
his ancestors, and keeps customs for his
whole clan. This is a custom observed by Feast of
all Dahomans; and they set a table, as oahfSd.
they term it, and invite friends to eat with
the deceased relatives, whose spirits are
supposed to move round and partake of
the good things of this life. Even my
mterpreter, Madi-ki Lemon, who pretends
to despise the belief in fetish, sets a table
to his ancestors, and will tell you that his
grand or great-grandfather, Corporal Lemon,
makes a meal on this occasion which will
last him till the next annual feast.

At half past nine, we again entered The custom
the palace of Dange-lah-cordeh. We were
ushered into an inner court, the door of
which was ornamented with two human
skulls. The court was in shape a paral-
lelogram, one of the lengthened sides being

occupied by a long low-roofed building,
in tbe centre of wliicb were two canopies
of coloured cloths, one for the king and
his first wives, the other for the females
of the blood royal. At the further end
stood three small tents, the centre one
surmounted by a large silver ostrich, with
outstretched wings, under which were two
real ostrich\'s eggs ; the other two covering
each a large glass chandelier. As usual
there was a neutral ground, on one side of
which sat the amazons; on the other we
occupied the principal position, surrounded
by ministers, amp;c. On the neutral ground
were the ornamented skulls of kings; and
on their knees, engrossed in serious con-
verse, the too-noo-noo and mae-hae-pah.
As usual the mayo and ee-a-voo-gan were
prostrate in the dirt, while we bowed to
the king ; and a band of singers and
music called upon the assemblage to look
with pride at their king, visited by ambas-
sadors of all nations and colours.

We were no sooner seated, as usual with
several bottles of strong waters at our dis-

posal, than a herald stepped forward, and
called the camboodee (treasurer) and too-
noo-noo (eunuch), who, prostrating, crawled
to a crimson velvet cloth in front of the
royal seat, on each side of which they sat
to superintend the disbursements which
the generosity of the monarch bestowed
on his officers. The herald having called
the miegan, who was sick, next called the
inayo. The aged minister flung himself into
the dust, and crawled on to the crimson
cloth, where he knelt, and received in his
robe (a handsome highly embroidered sky-
blue cloth) from the royal hand 16,000
cowries, and 8 dollars, with which he stag-
gered to the rear, when, having counted
them, he returned, knelt, and threw dirt on
his head and arms. What a state of sub-
jection, when it is understood that this man
pays 2000 heads of cowries annually to the
king!

In this way followed the several mini-
sters, cabooceers, traders, and high offi-
cers, a list of whom is annexed; the greater
part receiving only a head and a half of

cowries, but all performing the same de-
grading and disgusting ceremony. The
royal bounty was extended to strangers;
the cha-cha and ourselves received each six
heads of cowries, but instead of kotowing
we drank health in gin.

In the courtyard were two crown birds
and a beautiful gazelle. Heralds proclaimed
the royal titles, and sycophants extolled
in flowing language the liberality of the
monarch. Several court fools exercised their
wit and ingenuity.

this pair of rufiians were marked round
the eyes and mouth with whitewash, thus
giving the head the appearance of a skull.
As an interlude, about noon, the gates of
each end of the quadrangle were thrown
open, and a party of men and women, jaded
and overladen, the former headed by Poh-
veh-soo the latter by his coadjutor, were
seen to advance towards the king\'s posi-
tion. It would appear to require all the
care and attention of the master and mis-

tress to keep their overladen carriers from
dropping : they wiped off the perspiration,
fed them with corn, rubbed their joints,
and did all they could to make their large
loads bearable. At last they reached the
foot of the throne; and in the middle of a
speech made by Poh-veh-soo, and inter-
larded by his coadjutor, in which they ex-
plained that from a great distance they had
brought these baskets of corn and burdens
of fire-wood, to present them to the most
liberal generous monarch in the known
world, exhausted nature apparently gave
way, the carriers tottered, and falling
exposed baskets of shavings and straw,
and bundles of pith of bamboo.

Another fool rolled to the foot of the
throne in a bag, and imitating the call of
the guinea-fowl, pecked up the corn which
the king threw to him in the shape of
cowries, which act of liberality was at once
lauded by the sycophants and other courtier
fools.

Poh-veh-soo, in the mask of a monkey, The court
helped himself liberally to quantities of food,

now brouglit in to be distributed among
tlie assembled thousands All the sublime
and ridiculous of the court were assembled
in the palace yard to-day: men of all
heights, from giants to the dwarf of inches,
hunchbacks, albinos, and all that is hideous
in the human race, besides beautiful birds,
the gazelle, and dogs of all kinds. Alto-
gether there were given away about 800
heads of cowries. On leaving, I asked my
interpreter how many heads of cowries he
thought had been given away; at first he
could not answer, then he said more than
10,000 : such is the idea the Dahomans
have of the liberality of their king. In
the afternoon we went to the Ah-jah-ee
market. The supply was small, but few
fowls, amp;c.; every thing appeared more in
sample than the supply of a four days\' fair.

June Sth. — Visited the Beh-kon market;
similar to the one yesterday. Called on the
mayo on duty at the court; he was reclining
on a mat together with the other officers
on duty.

served two small eggs, and presently a
large shell snail dropped from the hollow to
protect them; these eggs are frequently
found in old trees in all this part of Africa.

Our stock has become short, and the de-
maTids of the numbers of strangers make
every thing scarce, an egg not to be had,
nor do the Dahomans quot; wastequot; their time
in growing fruits. Yesterday we sent a dis-
tance of twenty miles to procure eggs and
oranges, and to-day have abundance. Pretty
good mutton, guinea-fowls, pigeons, fowls,
and ducks, are almost always to be had; the
pork is by no means tempting. Just outside
our gate are the city shambles. Not much
is killed, generally five to ten pigs, and as
many goats. Every portion is saved and
cooked at once, the blood alone being thrown
to the turkey-buzzards; yet ten cowries, one
farthing, will procure a sizeable piece of
meat and pepper sauce. Provisions for the
poor are cheap, except water, which is

and Ad. a pot; and the poor go for a
length of time without water. At daylight
there are numbers of providers, and for a

very few cowries, about a halfpenny, a very
substantial breakfast can be procured, hot
and oily with chillies and palm oil. The
Dahoman can be abstemious, but if he has
not to pay for his dinner, he will eat till he
cannot walk, and then lie and wallow, suf-
fering under indigestion, and, like a boa
constrictor, too full to move.

closeted all day with the king, I fear with
no good wishes to the prosperity of our
mission. We have twenty-six hammock-
men, twenty carriers, and forty women
ditto, besides headmen and their servants,
two interpreters (one of whom has two
wives and five attendants), two valets, one
cook, and two house-servants. Besides these
the mayo appoints a man to get wood, one
to get water, one to take messages, and
another to clean the yard, and all their
appointments are sinecures; while two old
wretches, whom I have nicknam.ed turkey-
buzzards, are ever prying about, picking
up what they can. Besides the above and
our three quot; saved,quot; if the king sends a

present of food, eight or ten hulking fel-
lows attend it; and more than its value
has to be given them in rum, and about a gal-
lon daily to the bearers of sticks with their
masters\' compliments. The subsistence, as
it is termed, for carriers and hammockmen,
when, like ours, lying idle, is three strings
of cowries, or U., for men, and two for
women, per day. Every week it costs us
upwards of ten heads of cowries merely to
subsist our people, and about fourteen gal-
\'ons of rum, which articles (besides cost)
will require four men to bring them from
VYhydah.

These quot; our people,quot; as they are termed
expect every now and then a present; and
this evening we indulged them in a beaker
of rum, but not before they had earned
It. Forming a ring, we took our seats at
the upper end, and lighting 5ur cigars soon
collected a vast crowd. The dance is no
doubt hard work, but unseemly and indeli-
cate, being a constant working of arms and
legs, calling every muscle into play. Men
and women all dance alike. After receiving

their petty for a long time determined to be friends
with me, and to-day he brought some fresh
eggs, which he explained were purchased
from the harem. It appears that a male
guard is on the outside of each gate, and
the very elderly ladies are allowed to sell
the little hoards of the sable wives.

As a protection against adultery, the
fetish people plant a charm under the thresh-
old of the entrances into the palace harems;
and the people believe, if a woman has gone
astray, the charm has the power of com-
municating a bowel disease : however that
may be, the belief is so strong that many
have imagined themselves ill and confessed
the name of the lover, whereupon both have
been beheaded.

June l^th.—Walked for the second time
to the magnificent view, about five miles
from Abomey, already described by me.

As the king had sent to say he would pass
our door in the afternoon, we, with much
regret, returned. On passing the palace
gate, his Majesty was honouring Domingo
José Martins, on taking leave, with a review
of three regiments of amazons. This mil-
h\'onnaire, at the desire of the king, and to
his own interest, had visited the customs,
but was now returning to Porto Novo to
load two English vessels, the Foam and
another. No one doubts that Domingo
José Martins is the greatest slave-dealer
in all Africa ; or if he does, ask him, and
he will not dispute the title ; yet he carries
on a vast trade in British vessels.

According to etiquette, we descended The royal
from our hammocks, whither we had re-
treated from the sun\'s heat, and made our
bow to the king, who drank healths with
us, and asked if we had brought him any
specimens from the bush. We told him
our canteen preceded us, but we would
send him samples of the good things that
grew there on our arrival at our quarters.
His Majesty then begged we would, when

we had changed our clothes, come and
witness some dancing. We took leave,
and in an hour returned, having sent him
five beakers of rum, two case bottles of gin,
and two of liqueurs. Martins had left, but
we were entertained with some really good
dancing in the ballet style. Among the
dancers was one of the king\'s sons, and a
nephew. The band at times did not please,
and one of the dancers would step out and
sound the notes to them. After the males
had performed, a party of amazons took
their place ; but, as it began to rain very
hard, we had to leave. Soon after our re-
turn home, his Majesty sent, as a present to
us, two bullocks, corn-flour, peppers, palm
oil, and salt.

deh. to that of Dahomey. First came the caboo-
ceers, each with his retainers, band, and
official gear; then the ministers, followed
by the king\'s levies, in the centre of whom
was the royal hammock, of crimson and
gold. At our gate they halted, and a bottle

of rum was sent from the royal hammock.
After it came the display of skulls, be-
fore described as part of the martial array
of each army; separated by about a hun-
dred yards was the amazon host, in the
centre a similar hammock and similar skull
ornaments, and at a halt the present of
another bottle of rum left it a matter of
conjecture whether the king was guarded
hy the male or female guards ; lastly came

In the evening Martins called to take
leave, and sat a long time. The conversation
was entirely on the trade: he said he made
80,000 dollars last year by palm oil, that
the slave and palm-oil trade helped each
other, and that in connection he did not
know which was the most profitable. He
was very civil in offering us any thing his
house could afford at Whydah, which, of
course, we thanked him for, but did not
take advantage of.

June 11th. — To-day commenced the de-
bates and trials, which proved very in-
teresting. At these trials the king is the
judge in an open court, in which a comment
may be made by any individual on the
conduct of other or others in the last war;
and if the charge be substantiated, punish-
ment follows. Great liberty of speech is
enjoyed, and distinction of rank laid aside.
Interlaced with attacks and defences, were
many lengthened speeches in praise of the
monarch and his liberality. .

1nbsp; In my first journal I have given a curious illus-
tration of the power possessed by any headsman of a
village to hold a royal court. The proceedings which
occupied this day afford an additional illustration of
the equity and freedom of speech which characterise
the judicial proceedings of the barbarous nation.

palace of Dahomey, the ancient palace of
the present race of kings. About 230 years
ago, Tah-coodoonoo, the chief of the state
of Fahie, made war on Abomey, and in
the conquest accomplished a vow to the
fetish, in ripping open the bowels of the
chief quot; Dah,quot; and placing the mangled re-
mains under the foundation of a palace
huilt in commemoration, aptly naming it
Dahomey, or Dah\'s belly; hence the king-
dom of Dahomey. It was in this palace
that the royal family and military power
of Dahomey met to-day to - water the
graves quot; of Tah-coodoonoo and his family

Africa is fraught with wars. For nearly
a century Dahomey could barely repel the
attacks of her neighbours. In the early
part of the eighteenth century, Guadjah
Trudo ascended the throne, a warhke
prince ; and from this reign may be dated
the military fame of the Dahomans, al-
though for nearly a century they remained
tributary to the Eyeos, who are reported to

sacrifices, the othcr nations lying between Abomey
and the sea, and thus opened an extensive
slave trade with foreigners. This has con-
tinued unabated ever since, though troubled
at times by the Popoes, a warlike nation on
the west quot; sea coast,quot; who harboured the
people of Whydah, and by lagoon commu-
nication gave the Dahomans much trouble
in their new conquest.

Sacrifices were inherent with the Daho-
mans, but this monarch instituted the quot; Se-
que-ah-hee;quot; and to keep up the frightful
bloody fête, upwards of 200,000 human
beings have been murdered. His grand-
son Ada Hoonzoo, the grandfather of the
present monarch, first raised the amazon
army, but not to its present extent, and
died the M\'Adarn of Africa, leaving roads
leading to his capital as broad as Pall Mall,
and as suited to the country traffic as ours
are to that of England.

Decapitation was not considered a suffi-
cient mode of sacrifice, and this African
Nero would first have their ears cut off.

their eyes gouged, their nails drawn, and
on the fourth day after these terrific suffer-
ings, end them with death. Agon-groo,
the father of the present king, appears to
have been a weak monarch, and during his
reign he had to flee from the Eyeos. The
Mahees, Anagoos, and Attahpahms also at
times made inroads. He was succeeded by
his son Adanazah, whose fate is uncertain:
generally hated, he was, by the will of the
people, deposed, and Gezo reigns in his
stead. The latter monarch has conquered
nearly all his neighbours, and considerably
increased the extent of the kingdom of Da-
homey. Among other acts, he has declared
Ashantee subjugated, and built an enor-
mous palace called Cumassee (the name of
the capital of Ashantee) in commemoration.

It may be still necessary to add a few ex- The male
planations about the relative position of armierand
the two armies of Dahomey. Considered ^^t
as one army, it is in two brigades, the
niiegan\'s and the mayo\'s, the right and the
left, which are also called the agaou\'s and
the possoo\'s (the titles of the generals). In

the right there are two miegans and two
agaous, a male and an amazon ; and the
same equivalent rank is carried down to
the private in each brigade, male and fe-
male. These relationships in military rank
are called father and mother ; and, as will
appear, the male soldier, when accused, ap-
peals to his quot; mother quot; to speak for him.
Besides this military balance of power, all
strangers visiting Abomey have quot; mothersquot;
at once appointed, whose duty it is to send
daily a quantity of food, as from the king
(dabadab and palm-oil stews), and who in
return expect a present. Our quot; mother,quot;
Ee-ah-wae, it will be remembered, is a
very brave soldier. The soldiers, male
and female, are all slaves, fed and clothed
by their owners, and receive no pay, ex-
cept what has been shown as given by the
king during the customs : but war in Da-
homey is a trade, and each soldier is a
trader, the annual slave hunt forming the
market. A price is set on each prisoner
and each head, and the soldier is con-
strained to sell to his lawful master. As

the kmg has about 2,000 males and 5,000
amazons, together with those male soldiers
contributed to the hunt by each town
and district, he necessarily becomes a very
extensive slave-procurer, at the risk, of
course, of his own slaves, and at the ex-
pense of their keep, and the trifling per-
centage at which he purchases them.

The description of position on this day\'s The Se-
fete will answer for all those of the quot; Se-
que-ah-ee,quot; as most of the courts were
similar, and the tombs in nothing differing.
Under a canopy constructed in the roof of
a low thatched building forming one side of
the court called \'\' Ah-goh-doh-meh,quot; in the
Dahomey palace, on a rich mat reclined
the king; as usual attended by his host of
female ministers, ladies of the blood, wives,
amazons, and maidens. On the neutral
ground were the skulls of kings, and strewed
about large pieces of cooked meat, gorging
on which were thousands of turkey-buz-
zards flying about with sickening familiarity.
On the opposite side, facing the royal mat,
we sat, surrounded, as usual, by the ministers,

cabooceers, and officers. In our front was
a band of singers. On the left stood three
small thatched mud huts, and in the door-
way of each was a pillar of cloth. Each
hut was surmounted by a large silver orna-
ment, and encircled by thousands of human
skulls, thigh, jaw, and other bones. These
were the mausoleums of Tah-coodoonoo and
his family, and the skulls those of the sacri-
fices to their memory.

As we entered, the singers were singing
in praise of the achievements of the Daho-
man arms, and reciting the account of
the Attahpahm war. It appeared probable
that the charges had already been planned,
as the singing is all practised beforehand,
and is well considered. The rehearsals with
the males take place in shaded groves, and
with the females in the enclosure of the
camboodee\'s house, the latter attended by
eunuchs.

Ah-pah-doo-noo-meh (one of the amazon
generals) addressed them, and gave them
a military and vivid description of the re-
gaining the ground after the male army

under the agaou had fled, and told them
to remember in their songs, that the ama-
zons saved the war: quot; to them the praise
of minstrels was due.quot;

Ah-hoh-peh (one of the king\'s brothers)
said that Ah-pah-doo-noo-meh spoke truth,
quot; the amazons had saved the Dahoman army
from destruction.quot;

Ah-pah-doo-noo-meJi, addressing the king,
said: — quot; The Attahpahms have sought re-
fuge in the Ahjah country; let the war be
made on Ahjah : and remember, before you
go to war again, that part of \' your sons\'
(the male army) ran away in Attahpahm.quot;

The soldiers thus charged with cowardice
came forward and prostrated themselves on
the neutral ground, and kissed the dust.*

* Although the agaou\'s name will often appear
during these debates, there remained no doubt in my
mind that he had been killed in the Attahpahm war.
If a great officer be killed, it is generally considered
proper to give out that he has returned, and soon after
(being reported sick) he is said to have died a natural
death j thus, the neighbouring countries fail to hear

King (to the accused). — quot; Your chief
knows more about counting cowries than
the art of war. The prisoners this war
were few. If men run like goats, and are
not followed, is it likely they will halt to
be caught ? quot;

Another Amazon. — quot; If the king eats out
of a plate, must it not be washed before
used again ? My musket after use requires
oiling.quot; *

Another.—quot; Let Ahjah be the seat of war.
Oh, mayo! lay this request before the king,
that he cause you to send messengers to
Ahjah to call upon the Attahpahms to col-
lect and fight again, on pain of being at-

the truth of the history of the wars. Each day he
has been reported ill, as also the mayo; but on distri-
bution days cowries have been sent to the mayo, but
not to the agaou, besides which the natives them-
selves prevaricated when closely questioned.

Mayo. — quot;I have already sent messen-
gers telhng their chief, that, if the Ahjahs or
others offer protection to the Attahpahms,
the king will send an army to destroy them.quot;

quot; For my part I am in debt for my provi-
sions for last war, I must go again to get
money, whether you decide on Bah or
Ahjah. My proverb is, \' Give a dog a bone
and he will break and eat\', so will we the
town of our enemy.quot;

A procession of fourteen chiefs of de-
moiselles du pavé now passed before the
king, and prostrated themselves and kissed
the dust.

Mayo (to the amazons). — quot; Explain at
once your wishes, that the king may know
them. If this is to be a war palaver, should
not the agaou be present ? quot;

A stormy debate ensued, in which the
amazons persisted in charging a portion of
the male army with cowardice; asserting
that the weight of the action thus devolved

upon them: they were overloaded, and to be
overloaded was to be made a laughing-stock
of. The men tried to cry them down by
shouting and hooting; when the amazons
resorted to singing —

Ah-loh-loh-poh-loh-gan. — quot; The amazons
are sweet-mouthed in their speeches. Let
the king command, and the agaou will
reduce the enemy.quot;

Possoo. — quot; Let the king send me: I will
do my best. There has been too much
palaver about nothing.quot;

A Soldier—quot; The king has already made
sacrifices to the river Mono. We are ready
to exterminate the Attahpahms or die.quot;

The river Mono lies on the road to At-
tahpahm, and as each forest, river, sea, amp;c.,
is supposed to be under the direction of a
spirit, it is usual to sacrifice to them before
crossing.

Ek-hoTi-sah (a military officer.) — quot; If
we are not able to conquer Bah, we had

better acknowledge it, and leave it to some
other nation.quot; (It is the third year Abeah-
keutah and Bah have been asked for.)

Toh-hol-moo-veJi-seh (military chief) ex-
claims,—quot; Goat\'s blood is goat\'s blood.quot; *

A general hubbub ensues, in which Ah-
pah-doo-noo-meh tells Toh-koknoo-veh-seh
he might better have said nothing, and
listened.

Ek-hoJi-sah continues. —quot; It is the king
who makes war, not I. The king knows why
we made so few prisoners in Attahpahm,
and who are in fault. If the king becomes
aware that any nations are favouring the
Attahpahms he will at once destroy them.
I did not come here to quarrel. Where the
king sends me I will fight to my utmost.
Is this a day on which to find fault ? If I
am not fit for my position drive me out.
If my actions are not right, let my accu-
sers look me in the face and make their

* Anglice, in vulgar parlance, quot; trumps,quot; meaning
we all knew that before.

charges. I will not allow my name to be
bandied because a portion of an army
neglected their duty. Let my \' mother \' ¹
say what she thinks of this palaver.quot;

Ah-pali-doo-noo-meli. — quot;I will explain
myself and my reasons for wishing the king
to make war on Bah.quot;

Boh-noli-mar-seh (a military officer.) —
quot; Where the \' king\'s sons\' are (the male
army), there the fighting will be. (Mean-
ing that the amazons were only secondary.)
What I speak in the debate I will enact in
the field. There is a fish in the river called
\' pah-tah-seh-heh.\' quot; (This fish has a natural
protection, and is able to defend itself.)

An Amazon questions his right to inter-
rupt her general, and asks: quot; Does one do
wrong who, in seeking a livelihood, gives a
portion to the king ? quot;

1nbsp; By quot; mother,quot; understand coadjutor in the harem;
by quot;daughter,quot; amazon ; quot; father,quot; the address to the
king, or a slave to his master ; quot; son,quot; soldier, slave.

May 0 (talking at Boli-noli mar-seli).——
\'\' The king has said, let a man stufF himself
at night, and he is heavy in the morning,
that man\'s a fool.quot;

for himself, he is of no use to his king. If
one partly destroys a country, he is not
Hkely to return in open day, but will take
advantage of the darkness of night.quot; ^

Hoo-mah-ee (king\'s drum-maker). — quot;If
the amazons go to Abeahkeutah, the males
must go also. Let the king decide, and
my \'mother\' and I will march together.
Where war is, there the drum will be. The
army was six days in Attahpahm without
meeting any enemy; yet there is one that
calls himself king of that country.quot; (Sings,
and all join chorus) —

* The literal meaning of this is, that Attahpahm
is partlj destroyed, or that the Dahomans — neither
conquerors nor conquered—destroyed the city, but
not the nation ; that the king is not likely to let them
know when he will make another attack on so for-
midable a nation, although he has not finished with
them.

Boh-Tcoli-sah (one of the singers)..—\'\'When
the king talks of Abeahkeutah, then I will
speak. What serves all this dispute ? We
can go to war with our clothes on (with-
out loss of time).quot; Amid loud cries and
interruptions, he added: quot; Ah-pah-doo-noo-
meh, the chief of the amazons, has raised
this palaver.quot;

Ah-pah-doo-noo-meh. —.quot;Let Boh-koh-sah
say I am the cause of this palaver. I will
speak my mind. Let the king decide for
Attahpahm; we are strong enough for
Abeahkeutah also.quot; (Meaning, the males
will take one, the amazons the other.)

A Drummer says—quot;Forty drums make
an army, one army would be sufficient. In
times of peace, the warrior\'s eye is in all
directions ; in war, concentrated on one
focus (force should be concentrated). I
wish to speak to the miegan and agaou.
Both are absent. Why are they not here ?
It was not yesterday we returned from
Attahpahm. Why bring that palaver in
question now ? quot;

An Amazon—quot; If men give cause, do
you think women can refrain from ob-
serving their faults, and commenting on
them ?quot;

Hoo-mah-ee. — quot; The Attahpahms must be
destroyed; if they sent to treat, their feet
would blister by the way. Let the king
follow and exterminate them.quot;

Another Drummer.— quot; The reason we ask
for Abeahkeutah is, that the Abeahkeutans
have insulted the king and killed Daho-
mans.quot; (A general murmur.)

speech of some length to the king, adds—
quot; We are the king\'s sandals.quot;

The king made a speech in return, which
was inaudible. All acknowledged it by
holding aloft their muskets, and shouting.
The subject was then changed by Ah-hoh-
peh and Leh-peh-hoong, the king\'s eldest
brothers, holding a spirited conversation
on the agricultural condition of the king-
dom. They agreed that the corn grounds
were insufficient in extent to meet the
demands, and remarked that the country
which formerly supplied this necessary
article of food was Ah-jar, and that now
war was about to preclude the practica-
bility of depending on that market. Their
debate was joined in by Hung-bah-gee, a
military chief, who added, that where goats
were formerly plentiful in the market, they
were now scarce, and that fowls and poultry
were dear. They finished by agreeing that
the roads were not kept in the order they
might be.

In these public and open speeches alone
is the king made aware of the state of the

interior ; and according to their tenor and
requisition lie acts. Any one founding a
complaint may do it, but he must be care-
ful to prove it, or woe betide him.

The annual clothing to the soldiers under
accusation was now brought in and placed
before them, when an argument followed
as to whether they were deserving of it or
not. Their coadjutors in the amazon army
said they deserved it, as their band, in a
former war, killed the king of Lef-flee-foo.

Hung-bah-gee and Too-koo-noo-veh-seh
(two chiefs) considered the goods forfeited,
and each put in a claim of superior service.

An amazon officer questioned Hung-bah-
gee\'s right, but conceded to Toh-koo-noo-
veh-seh having a claim.

After much discussion, the king, in a
speech too low to be heard, decided that
Teh-peh-sah and his party (the accused)
were to take their cloth ; and thus ended
the day\'s debate or wrangle. The band of
singers were paid seven heads of cowries and
a bottle of rum ; and were followed by more
bands, which each sang praises, received

a present, and retired. About forty of
the blood royal assembled on the neutral
ground (among them quot; Bah-dah-hoong,quot; the
king\'s eldest son and heir apparent) pros-
trated and kissed the dust, followed by the
ministers and cabooceers. At three we left,
as four more unhappy wretches were to be
added to the thousands already murdered,
to the memory of these benighted kings.
God grant the nation a speedy deliverance
from such barbarous pursuits! On this day
his Majesty gave away about fifty heads of
cowries.

June 12th.^—This morning it appeared the
debate of yesterday had not been without
good results ; the roads were in process of
cleaning; each house has its portion, and
all the lots were marked ready, so that
there was no mistake.

A liberated African woman (carrying a TheM\'Car.
child on her back) came to our quarters
this morning to beg our intercession on
behalf of her husband, a liberated African
from Sierra Leone, named Tom M\'Carthy,
who was a prisoner in the camboodee\'s
house. A year since, having the hooping-
cough, he had been directed to go into At-
tahpahm (from Whydah) to visit a famous
native doctor who resided there; war had
been made in the mean time, and he was
now a prisoner. Desiring her not to men-

were caught in a tornado, which, in a few
moments, soaked us through. At noon we
attended the parade of the amazon army—
ostensibly the taking the oath of fidelity
by these extraordinary troops, and a most
novel and exciting scene it proved. Under
a canopy of umbrellas on the south side
of the Ah-jah-ee market-place, surrounded
by ministers, cabooceers, dwarfs, hunch-
backs, amp;c., all en militaire, on a skull-orna-
mented war-stool sat the king; in front sat
the too-noo-noo, whilst on the right, under
a similar canopy similarly attended, was a
female court, in front of which was the
mae-hae-pah.

In different parts of the field bivouacked
the amazon regiments. As I arrived and
took my seat on the king\'s right hand, one
regiment was marching off, and a herald
called —

A regiment of bushrangers now advanced.
As a mark of distinction, each amazon had
three stripes of whitewash round each lea:.
As soon as they arrived in front of the
throne, they saluted the king, when one of
the officers stepped forward and swore, in
the name of the regiment, if they went to
war, to conquer or die. quot; Have we not
conquered,quot; she exclaimed, quot; all the pro-
vince of Mahee ? So will we always con-
quer or die.quot; Then a second officer stepped
forward and said: quot; When the Attahpahms
heard we were advancing, they ran away.
If we go to war, and any return not con-
querors, let them die. If I retreat, my
life is at the king\'s mercy. Whatever the
town to be attacked, we will conquer, or
bury ourselves in its ruins.quot; As soon as
this officer had thus sworn, a third came
from the ranks and said: quot;We are eighty,
and of the right brigade, never yet known
to turn our backs to the enemy. If any
one can find fault with us, young or old,
let us know it.quot; A male officer standing
near the king was about to address this

amazon, when he was told by a fetish man,
quot; That woman is fetish, you are not; you
must not interfere with her.quot; All the
amazons then joined in singing,_

quot; quot;We march\'d against Attahpahms as against men,
We came and found them women.
What we catch in the bush we never divide.quot;

Parts of two other regiments of bush-
rangers then advanced; all regiments are
named after their colonels, and these bore
the appropriate titles of Ah-hoh-yoh, fire-
horn, Ah-koong-ah-dah, turkey-buzzard.

saluting the male and female
courts, one of the amazons said: quot; I
have no promises to make: as I have be-
haved and will behave, so I am ready to
be judged: let my actions prove me! quot;
Then another added: quot; By the king\'s off-
spring I swear never to retreat.quot; Whilst a
third continued : quot; War is our great friend ;
without it there is no cloth, no armlets;
let us to war, and conquer or die.quot; The

speaking was then taken up by a fourth,
saying: quot; I am a wolf, the enemy of all
I meet who are the king\'s enemies, and if
I do not conquer, let me die.quot; And a
fifth, who added: quot; I am mother of Antonio
(Da Souza); I long to kill an elephant
for him to show my regard, but the Attah-
pahms must be exterminated first. One of
the male soldiers sent us Guinea pepper,
to excite us to war : such is an insult.quot;
A sixth amazon having first recited the
names of all the countries and towns con-
quered by the Dahomans\' to Ee-ah-wae
(the English mother, an amazon general) ;
the latter repeated them to two female
heralds, who proclaimed them aloud. When
this recitation was concluded the amazon
said to the king: quot; If we go to war, we can-
not come back empty-handed; if we fail to
catch elephants, let us be content with
flies: the king only knows where the war
shall be.quot;

The two colonels now came forward, and,
by the king\'s desire, their bush-knives were
handed for my inspection,—large unwieldy

country-made articles. Though far from
deserving it, yet I said they were well
adapted for the service. Being passed to
Cocoa Sautee, the Ashantee ambassador,
he (a thorough courtier) looked at them
with admiration, felt their edges and their
balance, and, turning towards the king,
exclaimed, quot; If the princes of Africa wish
to behold the wonders of the earth, let them
attend the customs of Dahomey.quot;

When the inspection of the knives had
been concluded, Ah-koh-yoh (colonel of
amazons) began her address: quot; Clothes,quot;
she said, quot; are made by fingers: we are
the king\'s fingers ! quot; Whilst Ah-koong-
ah-dah (colonel of amazons) added : quot; Car-
riages cannot be drawn without wheels:
we are the wheels!quot; And then both to-
gether cried : quot; We have destroyed Attah-
pahm, let us go to Abeahkeutah, where we
will conquer or die.quot; A dance of the
whole regiment followed, and then, crawl-
ing on their hands and knees, suddenly
With a yell, they rose and retired at a
rapid pace.

Another regiment followed about 300
strong. Fetish women in advance carried
the fetish images, which were placed on the
ground between the two courts. All, kneel-
ing, raised their muskets and saluted, after
which they were joined by about 200, in
the dress of amazons, retainers of the late
cha-cha raised in 1848, who introduced
themselves as young soldiers, anxious to
witness the glory of the king of kings.

The colonel then advanced and said:
quot; The Attahpahms wanted courage to fight
against Dahomey. Give us Abeahkeutah,
and if we do not conquer our heads are at
your disposal. If the Abeahkeutans run
into the water, we will follow them ; if into
fire or up trees, we Avill follow also.quot;

Another amazon added: quot; As sure as
Abeahkeutah now stands, we will destroy
it.quot; Whilst a third took up the theme : —-
quot; Attahpahm is destroyed! Give us
Abeahkeutah ? That is a strong place.
Amou entered a room in which lay a
corpse: he lifted the sheet, and was asked
why ? Because (he answered) I am anxious

A fourth amazon concluded the addresses
thus : quot; Talk of Attahpahm ! It is gone,
not worth speaking of: Abeahkeutah is
worthy of my consideration : if ordered
there, we will bring back a good report.
As grass is cut down to clear the road, so
will we cut olF the Abeahkeutans.quot; f

The amazon standard-bearers next came
forward and said: quot; These standards are
in our charge: we swear to protect them
or die.quot;

The fourth All then saluted and marched off at the
double quick step. Another regiment of
160 advanced, and, sitting down, saluted:
their fetish gear being placed in front.

* The Dahomans believe in the transmigration of
souls, and that all people who die pass into a happier
state,—in a land of spirits, returning to earth at times
to watch over the remaining members of their family.
Thus it is that the rich take their favourite wives and
a few slaves with them, some being voluntary sacri-
fices, and with wives often suicides.

f This is a pure Dahoman proverb : as their grass
is annually cut down, and on the roads quarterly.

An amazon of this regiment then com-
menced the usual addresses thus: quot; The
king is like a hen, spreading out her wings
to protect her young from the rain. We
are under the king\'s protection: if we
do not fight, let us die.quot; (The king having
drank health with me, handed a tumbler
of liqueur to the possoo.) After which,
another of the amazons continued the
speaking in these words : quot; Possoo, if you
head us in war, may we die! Send us to
Abeahkeutah, and we will destroy it or
die.quot;

One of the male courtiers here said: quot; If
you do not, you will lose your name.quot; On
which the amazon replied : quot;We are newly
bwn by the king: we have and will uphold
him.quot; And another added with emphasis:
quot; Where the king sends us, thence comes
a good report. I am the king\'s \' daugh-
ter,\' under his protection: he gave me to
the late Da Souza: death seized him: I
now belong to Antonio: my name is Ah-

The colonels now advanced, and said :
quot; These soldiers have done nothing yet ;
send us against the strongest : war cannot
suffice us. Where the regiment is sent I
will head them. Although a snake casts
away beads and sheds its skin, it cannot
change its colour, nor can I my word.
We have sworn never to touch our fetish
until we go to war. Attahpahm is no more.
Let the war be on Abeahkeutah.quot; The
usual salute and quick march concluded the
ceremony of this regiment.
The fifth Another regiment advanced, attended by
the cha-cha\'s wife, ornamented with about
100 ounces of pure gold. After they had
all saluted the king with the usual cere-
monies and prostrations, they pointed to
their accoutrements and sang —

The old too-noo-noo, in imitation of The too-
European dress, had from his short trowsers ZiZ
run a piece of tape under his feet, by way
of straps. One of the courtiers, while the
king was joking with them, ventured a wit-
ticism on the eunuch minister, who, turning
round sharply, said: quot; There is the king in
this court: any thing pointed at me is per-
sonal to the master.quot;

One of the amazons of the last regiment
now advanced and said: quot; The horse has
broken his halter and is loose ¹; the rob-
ber knows he is loose; if Abeahkeutah
be opened to us, we will conquer or die.
Should one only return, let her die.quot; After
which all the amazon regiments assembled
together, and, grouped in front, saluted
first the king, and then the female court;
whilst one of the ofiicers advancing said :
quot; Beans, though dried in burning fire, can,
by introducing the finger, be taken out and
eaten.quot; A singing chorus, in which all

quot;When we went to Attahpahm
We found nobody:
All ran away.
If they reach the water (sea),
They will be turned to salt.
Give us Abeahkeutah, and let the left brigade lead : ¹
We will conquer or die.quot;

One of those passing storms under the
name of tornadoes, common to all Africa,
proved that an African tent was capable of
withstanding the effect of the most search-
ing rain imaginable. Drawing close to the
royal seat, a mat was held over us, and a
column of courtiers stood on each side, at
once supporting the roof and forming walls
to our hastily-constructed defence: at the
same time a flannel robe and a huge grass
hat were thrown over the king. As the
swearing and declaiming of the amazon
army would have been lost on the ears of

majesty, they amused themselves the while
in dancing and singing. As soon, how-
ever, as the rain had passed, the swearing
recommenced with the following speech by
an amazon officer :

quot; Eain has fallen and washed the spittle
into the ground. Rain cannot enter the
king\'s house : it is a strong house. But give
us permission, and we will cause the rain
to fall on the roofless houses of Abeah-
keutah.quot; On this another amazon cried
aloud; quot;My mouth can speak of nought
but war. Give us Abeahkeutah.quot; Whilst
all joined in chorus of_

Another amazon then stepped forward,
and asked: quot; What came we here for? Not
to show ourselves, but to ask the king for
war. Give us Abeahkeutah, and we will
destroy it or die.quot; Followed by another,
who said: quot; Fetish ¹ men never initiate the
poor. Give us Abeahkeutah: there is

plenty. Attahpahm is destroyed and uti.
worthy of our future care.quot; At this part
Souza\'s women advanced and sang:

All the female court then left their stools,
and, heading the amazons, advanced and
saluted the king, and then, retiring, resumed
their positions; whilst, from the midst of the
amazon army, a little girl of six years of
age advanced, and said, quot; The king spoke
thrice when he spoke of war: let the king
speak once now: let it be on Abeahkeutah.quot; ¹
Again all the amazons advanced, and,
shouting, called on Da Souza to emulate his
father. quot; As the porcupine shoots a quill a
new one grows in its place, so let matters
be in the port of Whydah: let one ship
replace another.quot; All again prostrated
themselves and threw dirt on their heads:

1nbsp; Alluding to the custom of asking three times;
and meaning, « We have already asked three times,
you have only now to answer in the affirmative.quot;

while two amazon heralds recited the names
of the king, and added one from the Attah-
pahm war, the quot; glah-glahquot; or quot; chimpan-
zee.quot; ¹

Again all rise ; whilst an amazon chief The speech
makes the following speech. quot;As the zln^ai^T\'
blacksmith takes an iron bar and by fire
changes its fashion, so have we changed
our nature. We are no longer women, we
are men. By fire we will change Abeah-
keutah. The king gives us cloth, but with-
out thread it cannot be fashioned: we are
the thread. If corn is put in the sun to
dry and not looked after, will not the goats
eat it. If Abeahkeutah be left too Ions,

some otlier nation will spoil it. A cask of
rum cannot roll itself. A table in a house
becomes useful when anything is placed
thereon. The Dahoman army without the
amazons are as both, unassisted. Spitting

1nbsp; Chimpanzees, in hordes, drive the labourers in
the bush from their temporary farms: hence the name,
as at Attahpahm all the prisoners were from the
farms.

makes the belly more comfortable, and the
outstretched hand will be the receiving one:
so we ask you for war, that our bellies may
have their desire and our hands be filled.quot;

At the conclusion of this harangue the
female court again rose, and, heading the
amazons, saluted the king, when, pointing
to the heavens, all sang in chorus —

quot; Soh*-iae-mee!quot;
May thunder and lightning kill us if we break our
oaths!

The king now left the tent, amid cries of
kok-pah-sah-kree (a peculiarly fierce eagle) ;
whilst all fell prostrate. The king received
a handsome ebony club, and danced with it.
Then the amazons rose, and the king thus
addressed them: —
^tLhnbsp;\'\' hunter buys a dog, and, having

* During the customs, a party carrying the fetish
gear is headed by a man in a huge coat of dry
grass, wearing a large bullock\'s head mask. As he
passes all the boys follow, crying quot; Soh Soh.quot; This
is the representative of the god of thunder and
lightning.

trained him, he takes him out a-hunting,
without telling him the game he expects to
meet. When in the bush he sees a beast,
and, by his teaching, the dog pursues it.
If the dog returns without the game, the
huntsman, in his anger, kills him, and leaves
his carcass a prey to the wolves and vul-
tures. If I order you to clear the bush,
and you do not do it, will I not punish
you ? If I tell my people to put their hands
in the fire, they must do it. When you go
to war, if you are taken prisoners, you will
be sacrificed, and your bodies become food
for wolves and vultures.quot;

Having concluded his oration, the king
again danced and drank; then handed
round rum in a large pewter basin to the
amazon officers. On his return to his tent,
all the amazons, in number about 2400,
marched off, and thus ended the parade.

parade ground, the ah-jah-ee market ; but,
by the over zeal of the mayo\'s people that
we should be in time, were far too early.
Still we were so far fortunate that we had
time to inspect the ground. On the south
side a stockade of palm branches was built
in imitation of a town, having three large
enclosures within. These were now filling
with slaves, marched under guards from the
palaces. The cabooceers, followed by the
ministers, each attended by his whole array
of soldiers, bands, and insignia, marched
on to the ground in lengthened procession
from the west. At the same time the king,
carried in a hammock in the centre of his
male host, arrived from the palace of Dan-

ge-lah-cordeli on the east side; while the
amazons, who alone were to take part in
the sham fight, assembled under their dif-
ferent regimental colours on the north.

As usual a canopy of umbrellas was Thecom-
spread for the court, and on the right (as ^Ahe daquot;\'
yesterday) a similar one for the female
court ; while in the rear were bivouacked
the whole male army. The business of the
day commenced by the cabooceers and minis-
ters prostrating and kissing the dust. Next
Seh-peh-hoong, the king\'s brother, laid
several government agricultural implements
at the foot of the throne, and complained
that the proper officers had not caused
them to be repaired.

tne mae-hae-pah, who summoned the amazon amazons.
army to approach. First came an advanced
guard in single file, reconnoitring and
placing sentinels along the road: then
came the main army in two battalions. As
each passed, the sentries were relieved and
sent on with the report of advance. All
carried their muskets over their shoulders.

with the muzzles in front. Next came the
Fetish gear, the war-stools, and equipage
of the monarch, guarded by a reserve, and
in the rear the commissariat (all females).
A second time they marched past, in the
same order; this time giving a silent
salute, en passant^ by dropping on one knee ;
their muskets over the shoulder, but re-
versed. A third time they marched past,
but now in close column, and with constant
attention and arms shouldered. This, we
were told, represents a night march.

During this scene the heralds were con-
tinually crying, quot; Oh, king of kings! war is
coming, let all come to see it.quot;

then advanced, and, settling down in front
of the tent (attended by the amazon chiefs),
held a council of war. After which scouts
were sent out, and soon returned with a
spy covered from head to heel, with a
country cloth. He was placed in the
centre of the council, and an examination
took place; whilst aid-de-camps were con-

stantly running between the council and
the army. Again scouts were sent out,
and this time returned with six prisoners,
who were examined before the council, and
inarched into the rear. Then a body of
officers advanced, to report the state of the
country and position of the enemy to the
king, who told them that, as this was a mere
skirmish, the young troops were to take
the lead.

The king now left his stool and in-
spected the stockade; while we took up
positions on the right. There was a method
of keeping time which I failed in under-
standing : it was measured by paces, the
nieasurer having a thread, which, at a slow
pace, he passed round two sticks, at a
certain distance apart. After the manœuvre
these threads were measured. \'

At noon a musket was fired, and a The attack
portion of the army attacked the stockade, stockade,
niade an entree, and speedily reappeared,
some with prisoners, some with tufts of
grass to imitate heads.

again made an entrée. The slaves this time
broke out of their enclosure, and a slave-
hunt followed with much spirit, until all
were caught.

All the army now assembled in front,
except a reserve which guarded the pri-
soners, and at a signal advanced at double-
quick time, and, by force of weight, threw
down the stockade. The slaves from the
third enclosure escaping, a similar hunt
ensued as in the case of the previous
stockade.

The regiments now divided, and, as we
were informed, surrounded the country. All
the slaves were again let loose (about 2000),
and again hunted until all were recap-
tured, tied, and dragged before the royal
canopy, whither the king and ourselves had
returned.

As a slight divertissement, one of the
courtiers descried a large cobra in the
tree under which the canopy was spread,
and, receiving permission, fired. The mul-
titude shouted, and down fell a snake that
had been killed for the occasion.

The king, on taking leave, made us a
present of war-food,—hard round cakes
made of palm oil, peppers, corn, salt, and
beans, very nutritious, but difBcult to mas-
ticate.

These reviews were very interesting, and
I regret to say this was the last. We had
nothing now to witness but the see-que-
ah-hee. Some of the disputes in them will,
however, better serve to illustrate the man-
ners and customs of this extraordinary
people, than any laboured description of
their daily life and most singular national
manners.

June l^th. — The position need not be
described: suffice it to say that the mauso-
leums of Agah-jah-dooso, in the palace of
Agrim-gomeh, were, in the Dahoman idea,
equally honoured, or in other language, there
was a similar disgusting exposure of human
bones and skulls.^ Court fools exercised
their wit, and excited the risible faculties
by appearing in different masks.

and, as we entered, sung in praise of trade,
at which the mayo, ee-a-voo-gan, and all
the traders from Whydah, had to prostrate
and Idss the dust.

Having made our bow, the theme changed
into one of praise to the king, quot; who sacri-
ficed liberally to the memory of his an-
cestors,quot; and requested him to come forth
and dance. They next called Apah-doo-
noo-meh, the amazon chief, and sang at
length in praise of the glory of their arms.

The courtiers, sycophants, and fools were a mar-
now offered an ample opportunity of ex- Et,
ercising their disgusting eulogiums on the
munificence of their master, as the mae-
hae-pah, with cunning mystery, led two coy
maidens, each the bearer of a glass of rum,
to the centre of the neutral ground, and
called Hae-che-lee and Ak-koo-too, two ca-
booceers, to the presence. Advancing Mdth
simple looks they prostrated themselves,
and each received and drank a glass of
rum, and thus performed the only marriao-e
ceremony known in Dahomey. In this
^^^ay the monarch honours his favourite

Aniiici- The band of singers were about to re-
ceive a present of cowries, when a diver-
tissement took place, strongly pointing the
direction even of the playful thoughts of
the Dahomans. Among the cabooceers who
received the cowries, and afterwards pre-
sented them with a speech on tbeir master\'s
liberality, was discovered one of the king\'s
nephews. On the presum23tion that he was
there with bad intention, he was instantly
seized; and, with loud cries for mercy to
the king, was slowly, and with much diffi-
culty, removed across the court, where the
king\'s brother, Ah-hoh-peh, told him he was
to be beheaded.

Poh-veh-soo, the headsman, was exer-
cising one of his offices as court fool in an
opposite part of the court-yard, when the
yells and cries of the victim (happy sounds
to him) caught his ear. Divesting himself
of his mask, with eyes dilated and sword
in hand, he rushed to claim the prerogative
of another of his offices. Arriving just as

the king had declared his willingness to
try the culprit first, Ah-hoh-peh and Poh-
veh-soo struggled hard for possession of the
prisoner, and in this way approached the
royal presence. One of the guards seized
on Poh-veh-soo, and would have thrown
him in the struggle, had it not been for the
intervention of the late prisoner, who, to
the amusement of the assemblage, took
part with the headsman.

The remainder of the day was passed by
bands of singers, alternately singing praises,
either of the monarch, his ancestors, or his
army. Taking leave, on arriving at our
quarters we found a number of the quot; Spec-
tator,quot; landed by H. M. S. Lily, which
brought back the memory to distant and
happy England.

June 16 ^/z.—Again the watering the The second
graves of Agah-jah-dooso, in the same S\'de\'bates.
courtyard, and with the same positions as
yesterday.

This day the singers confined themselves
to an exposure of pubhc nuisances, or stric-

tures on the conduct of the ministers and
others. It would appear that, through
some neglect, the tribute rum had been sent
from Whydah (too evidently) under proof,
from a strong admixture of salt-water.
The mayo and ee-a-voo-gan were called
upon to be more careful in future, and had
to prostrate and kiss the dust.

Next the state of the palace walls was
commented on. In these charges, Hung-
bah-jee, a captain of the king\'s host, ex-
pressed himself as follows: quot;The miegan
and the agaou are strangely absent from
their customs: men say they are sick, yet
why is not the state of their health daily
reported at the palace-gate ? If a house
catches fire the inmates do not desert it,
but rethatch it, lest the rain come and
destroy the walls.quot;

Too-noo-noo answered that quot;the king
was aware of the state of the walls of his
palace, and that the mayo had received
directions concerning them.quot;

Leh-peh-hoong—quot; I have desired the sau-
gan to give his help towards their repair.

At present liis people are employed. quot;When
the work in hand is finished the walls will
be repaired.quot;

Ah-loh-iohpo-noli-gan. — quot; I can speak for
the mayo, all of whose people are, at the
king\'s command, ready to repair the walls.quot;

At this point a squabble arose between
the mayo and Hung-bah-gee, on the latter
declaring he would repair them himself.

The singers however changed the subject
of their lay, and sang of the Attahpahm
war, and in praise of the amazon army,
which was answered by one of its colonels.
All the successful amazons in the late war
then passed the throne; and one of their
generals, assisted by two other officers,
proclaimed the name of each amazon and
of her prisoner. Four hundred and twenty-
five are said to have brought prisoners, and
thirty-two the heads of enemies. Several
that had been wounded were introduced to
us by name : the portrait of one, called Seh-
dong-hong-beh (God speaks true), will be
found in the former volume.

The singers again sang the praises and
gains of war. The king came out and
danced, then passed to our position, and
drank with us, after which some heads of
cowries were distributed to a number of
bands of singers and musicians, each of
which performed for a short time. One of
the number, dressed in pure white, is called
Hausoo Hwae (the royal bird).

As it was getting late, and the time
approaching for the sacrifice of four un-
happy prisoners of war, we took leave.

On this day two of the ministers, the
mayo and the ee-a-voo-gan, have each to
decapitate a victim with a short crooked
sword. As a fee of office, each receives for
performing the bloody deed one head of
cowries, and a bottle of rum. The mayo,
an old man of seventy-five years of age,
performed his portion: not so the ee-a-voo-
gan, a stout good-natured-looking black,
to whom his task seemed repugnant, per-
haps from association with Europeans as
viceroy of Whydah, although I cannot
think the morality of a Dahoman even

could be benefited by such an intercourse.
Be it as it may, whether from innate hu-
manity, or from some less worthy motive,
the burly minister showed disgust at the
office, and paid quot; the public executioner,
whose heart the accustomed sight of death
mates hard,quot; one shilling, or 500 cowries,
to do the deed. As a proof that my
strictures above are not sufficiently strong
for some of the foreign society of Whydah,
two of them, slave-merchants, remained to
gloat on these infamous barbarous murders,
rendered legal in the minds of barbarians
by the countenance of the whites. Who in
this case are the murderers ?

June 11th. — To water the graves of Ah- Thethh-d
doh-noh, the mother of Agahjah-dooso, Waterin..
and her relations. Ah-doh-noh is one of

the titles of royalty held by the amazons. quot;ah\'do^so
The positions were the same as before, ex-
cept that the king sat on a chair of state,
and was guarded by a regular guard of
amazons under arms in the rear of the
royal seat. On the neutral ground were

Soon after our arrival, the business of
the day opened with a distribution of
cowries to all the ministers, head officers,
and traders, in presents varying from ten
heads to a head of cowries. The plan of
distribution was different from that pursued
on the previous days; the miegan being
sick, the mayo, on being called, danced
before the king to the notes of a discordant
band; then knelt, and received ten heads of
cowries in a basket on his head. Passing
that to a servant, he received a three-gallon
pottle of rum, which he carried away on
his head. Each recipient had to imitate
the mayo. The reader may remember,
that when the chief of the amazons accused
the males with running away in the Attah-
pahm war, the king exclaimed that their
chief knew more of counting cowries than
the art of war.

The 400 heads before mentioned are
presents to people not attending the cus-
toms ; and their distribution is a hereditary

right belonging to Ah-loh-peh the captain
of the band that gave way and caused the
confusion of the male army. The singers
now alluded to the charge, and the general
opinion of the males was, that Ah-loh-peh,
for his cowardice, had forfeited his ancestral
right. While the dispute was yet a mere
bantering of words, silence was proclaimed,
and two bushmen, advancing to the centre of
the neutral ground, knelt, and having each
produced from a bag a recently boiled black
human head, thus addressed the king: —

quot; The skulls were those of two Abeah- The
keutan soldiers, who were of a party that of uit^\'^^
had attacked and taken a town in Anagoo
(tributary to Dahomey): they then retired to
a country called Tossoo, to forage, being
horsemen. These two stragglers were shot.quot;

After receiving a present in value about
eight dollars, the mayo directed them to go
to his house and receive some powder, then
hasten and tell their chief, that, inasmuch

* It may be necessary to caution the reader that
Ah-hoh-peh is the king\'s brother, and Ah-loh-peh the
ofHcer charged.

I am strongly of opinion that this was
mere acting, to impress us that the Daho-
mans were not the aggressors,
rf Ah lohnbsp;^ procession of some public women,

peh. a form of trial ensued, if it deserve the
name, of Ah-loh-peh, and five others, which
lasted two days, and the particulars of
which, as they are of a novel form of
judge and jury, may be interesting. All
addresses must be supposed to be made
direct to the king as judge.

Ah-hoo-too (a military chief). —quot; Inas-
much as Ah-loh-peh has proved himself a
coward, he has forfeited his right to the
distribution of this money: it must go to
some one else.quot;

Mayo. — \'\' As head of the left, to which
side Ah-loh-peh belongs, I claim the distri-
bution.quot;

A military Chief.-—\'\' If Ah-loh-peh has
forfeited his hereditary right, it descends
to Tingalee, who is a fit soldier.quot;

the mayo, as head of all the \'left\' army,
to which Ah-loh-peh and Tingalee belong,
alone has the right.quot;

Boh-Jcoh-mae-oo-noo (military chief). —
quot; Tingalee is an officer to the mayo; is it
right that the servant or the master should
have this privilege ?quot;

Hwae-mah-zae (amazon chief). — quot;By
ancient custom the right is Ah-loh-peh\'s.
Why change that custom now ?quot;

Ah-loh-peh. — ^\'- Having listened to the
argument, I cannot give up my birthright.
If I was guilty of cowardice last war, why
was I not accused at the time ; I and all
my people ? It was not yesterday we re-
turned from war; nor is this the time (to
serve other purposes) to charge me with
actions in times gone by. I will not quietly
yield up my prerogative to the mayo.quot;

The mayo, whom I have before described
as a little man, rushed at Ah-loh-peh, a
large powerful well-built black, who was
addressing the king on his knees, and dealt
him several blows; then, turning to his re-
tainers, he caused him to be arrested and

forcibly removed. In a moment the whole
yard was in uproar; and the neutral
ground filled with amazons, shouting at the
top of their voices. All clamoured, yelled,
and shouted. When, with much difficulty,\'
silence was proclaimed, the king, without
altering his tone or position, and yet with
some sternness, ordered Ah-loh-peh to be
brought back.

Mayo (on the return of Ah-loh-peh).^
quot; I impeach Ah-loh-peh as a coward •
through his want of courage the Attah-
pahm\'s nearly conquered; his head, by all
our laws, is forfeited.quot;

with him for cowardice in the late war,
you should have done so before, not now.quot;

Ah-loh-peh.In what the mayo terms
presumption and impudence, I am only
protecting my hereditary rights ; and, if not
mme, let it not be the mayo\'s.quot;

The mayo here replied in a passionate
speech, rendered utterly inaudible through
the shouting and hooting of the multi-
tude.

Ah-loh-\'peh. —quot; As I behaved in the war,
so did my people; when I go to war, I do
not go alone.quot;

King (addressing the whole). — quot; You
must come to some definite agreement, and
be less personal.quot;

Ah-loh-peh. — quot; The people call me cow-
ard, and hinder me fair speech ; if I am un-
worthy of the charge, let it be taken to
Boh-gah-sah\'s.quot;

Boh-koh-mae-oo-noo.—quot; Boh-gah-sah is as
much to blame as Ah-loh-peh. That cannot
be : Tingalee is the fit person.quot;

After much more discussion, the king
said that, as they could not agree unani-
mously, he would decide.

dig-bee\'s house, and there be distributed.
The mayo committed himself when he
struck Ah-loh-peh. Let any one interfere
now, and I know how to punish him.quot;

King (answering in the negative) adds:
— quot;If any act cowardly in war, let the
report be made at the time, and not be
brought afterwards to serve other pur-
poses.quot;

Leh-peh-hoong (king\'s brother) then ad-
dressed the king, and begged to be allowed
to intercede for Ah-loh-peh.

King. — quot; Intercession is of no use now,
Ah-loh-peh must reflect on his past conduct,
and endeavour to do better in future.quot;

The mayo, addressing Ah-loh-peh, then
bade him beware for the future. But the
king interrupted him, and added : quot; Enough
has been said of the Attahpahm war; that
is finished, the country destroyed, and the
king killed.quot;

with Ah-loh-peh\'s; the king now declared
the charge false, and described the state of
the case.

King. — quot; Ah-loh-peh is a captain of
eighty muskets: Ah-ee-oh-soo-ee also of
eighty. In the Attahpahm war these bands
were associated. Ah-loh-peh\'s band did
not take part in the action; thus, un-
assisted, Ah-ee-oh-soo-ee could not act so
well. Ah-loh-peh declares his men went
foraging, and he could not collect them
together again ; that is the charge to be in-
vestigated,quot;

Ah-pah-doo-noo-meh, chief of the left
amazon army, then charged the amazon
miegan with coAvardice. quot;She and her
party ran,quot; said the chief, and did not halt
until they gained the king\'s position, a
day\'s march from the war, and were imme-
diately sent back with threats : in the mean-
time the amazon mayo was killed.quot;

quot; Well I know it,quot; rejoined the king ; and
then called up three amazons. quot; These,quot;
he added, quot; merely as carriers, without
arms, took prisoners; and thus I will reward

The munificence of the king was dilated
on at great length, and appeared to have
created general good-humour, when Koh-
koh-ah-gee, a military captain, blowing his
own trumpet, made a speech, in which he
placed his father\'s son as the bravest of
the Dahoman army. Hung-bah-gee, one of
the captains of the king\'s troops, challenged
him to single combat on the spot.

Koh-hohali-gee. — quot; JSTo, I will take my
musket to Abeahkeutah, and take more
slaves than you, and so decide which is the
greatest warrior.quot;

King. — quot; Koh-koh-ah-gee\'s is the right
way to decide a personal quarrel between
two officers; Hung-bah-gee was presump-
tuous.quot;

Several amazons asked Hung-bah-gee,
if he had any fault to find with Koh-koh-
ah-gee.

Ah-hoh-peli (king\'s brother).— quot;This is
an old jar: they hate each other.quot;

An old Anagoo. — quot; I recommend the
council not to quarrel among themselves;
as, if they go to war against Abeahkeutah,
they go against a strong people.quot;

This very sensible speech, being distaste-
ful, was of course cried down with much
noise, during which all joined in singing,

Koh-lcoh-ahgee. —quot; We are the king\'s
slaves, but he cannot sell us; should I be
at Agrimeh and there do wrong, the king
can send the knife (executioner) to de-
capitate me. Where we are sent we must
conquer or die.quot;

_ King.— \'\' Eeserve your strength for ac-
tion: do not exhaust it in palaver and
quarrel. (To the amazons) : Keep your
secrets of one another, and in war let each
emulate the other : if Koh-koh-ah-gee or

any other distinguish himself, shall not I
hear of it; and who knows better how to
reward ? But if, on the contrary any one
behaves ill, think not that I will not
punish.quot;

Amidst general compliments, and a dis-
tribution of food and rum, we took leave.
The fourth Juus __Again the See-que-ah-hee,

See-que- in the palacc of Dahomey, to the memory
of Ah-loh-wah-gae-lee, a hereditary title in
the harem. Positions were the same as on
the three former days. The trial of Ah-
loh-peh and five other military officers, for
cowardice in the late war, was still in pro-
gress ; and the mayo had probably had a
lesson from the king, for he hung his head
dejectedly during the whole day.

Too-hoo-noo-veh-seli opened the proceed-
ings by kneeling on the neutral ground at
our entrance, and saying: quot; The agaou is
sick, but I will explain to him all that
takes place.quot;

Toh-poh-vee. — quot; I am also to report pro-
ceedings to the agaou, and to state that
last war the troops were badly generaled :

Hae-tung (the amazon agaou). — quot;What
the king said yesterday about our retreat
was true ; but we were overloaded: we had
niore than our share of the war.quot;

Ah-ee-sah-tung (military chief). —quot; If a
division of an army do not do their utmost,
the whole blame cannot come on one, the
agaou.quot;

Sau-gan-sah (military chief)._quot; If I be-
haved like a coward, I must die: I could
not ask for mercy. Ah-loh-peh would have
been beheaded, had not the king interceded
and saved him. Although Ah-loh-peh was
not arrested yesterday, the affair is not
settled: it is our duty to find out if he is
in the right or wrong. I call upon Ah-loh-
peh and the others to appear and answer
for their conduct.quot;

ward, prostrated and kissed the dust;
whilst a stormy discussion ensued, far too
quickly spoken to be understood by me,
much less translated. After the discus-
sion had lulled,

Sau-gan-sah said : — quot; They are guilty,
and deserve to be disgraced. Let the king
condemn them to be headsmen, and, re-
serving two for himself, give two to each,
the miegan and the mayo.quot;

Another soldier was now brought for-
ward, and stripped of his accoutrements,
whilst his arms were tied ; and then again
arose a stormy discussion, in which Sau-
gan-sah told the king that if he bought
slaves and made soldiers of them, he must
expect bad as well as good,
tendonnbsp;—quot;Ah-loh-peh, although guilty,

feiiows. sented.quot; After a eulogium of the gal-
lantry of Ah-pah-doo-noo-mee and her
amazon regiment, he added : quot; Let Ah-loh-
peh and the others be disgraced to heads-
men forthwith.quot; Then, turning to the
last prisoner, he addressed his accusers

thus: quot; This man was second of eighty, the
first was killed, and this man was separated
from his party: when the party fell back,
this man was fighting on the field. I have
already given judgment in this case on
the field, and I cannot alter it now. Let
his arms be returned, and his liberty re-
stored.quot;

Ah-loh-peh and the five accused with him
now returned with their heads shaved, each
carrying a club, and all prostrated them-
selves and kissed the dust. Then Ah-loh-

Ah-loh-loh-poh-noh-gan, the chief captain
of the mayo\'s levies, then came forward,
bowed, and kissed the dust.

Kiiig (after a lengthened speech, hardly
audible). _ quot; Should twenty fall in your
ranks, let twenty take their place; should
100 fall, another 100 must be ready to re-
place them. Many were lost in the late

war; for the future matters must be better
managed, or punishment must follow.quot;

This speech opened a direct path to
chanting their own praises, in which they
far exceed the Briton\'s belief that he is
equal to two Frenchmen, or an indefinite
number of Portuguese. So happy were
they after their bragging speeches, that
they shook hands with each other, and, be-
coming much excited, compared forty of
the Dahomans as equal to any thousand
Africans. Then they joined in singing,

King.— quot; When you go to war, don\'t fire
at a rustling of leaves. Observe your man
well; assist one another, lest perchance the
enemy be strongest, and so turn the tables.quot;

One of the soldiers, holding up a small
club, exclaimed. quot; With this, at Attah-
pahm, I killed two of the enemy.quot;

quot; Show it, that all may see it,quot; rejoined
the king; and then once more they shouted
in full chorus,

quot; Let us rush on war, and die sooner than return
vanquished.
War is the pastime of the Dahoman ;
If we don\'t conquer, let us die !quot;

The day\'s fête was then concluded by
a quantity of food and rum being passed
round to all.

WATERESra THE GRAVES OF THE KING\'S GREAT-GEAND-
MOTHER, GRAND-MOTHER, AND MOTHER.

lyt\'^^he June im.-To-jyKY the grave of lah-ee,
fhrking\'s king\'s great-grandmother, was watered,
great The scene was a yard in the palace of Dan-

mother. gc-lah-cordch, and the positions much the
same as on the former days. The lah-ee
(which is a royal title) was dressed out in
silks and satins, and occupied a high seat.
The ground, as usual, was strewn with
cooked meat; and I much fear that sacri-
fices of female prisoners took place in the
evenings, although our interpreter assured
us that the present monarch had discon-
tinued them. Immediately facing the en-
trance gate, which was ornamented with
fourteen skulls, was an oven of clay, in
which was a live duck and two boiled
(human) heads, covered with palm oil.

A message was sent from the agaou,
stating that he fully approved of the dis-
gracing of Ah-loh-peh and his confederates,
and that, as soon as he was well, he would
attend the customs. Next followed a great
deal of bragging and self-praise, succeeded
by the general chorus : —

Fire cannot pass through water.
The king feeds us
When we go to war.
Remember this !quot;

A military officer then sang at great length,
the burthen of his song being, that, at what-
ever distance, if any king speaks lightly
of Dahomey or the Dahomans, the agaou
will head the army and revenge such an
insult speedily.

yesterday; take warning by the fate of
those ; if I give you a country to destroy,
and you do not destroy it, you know what

you deserve.quot; Then he explained to them
that every inducement vs^as given them to
do their duty, and pointed out that cunning
and stratagem should also be added to their
bravery. This was acknowledged by all, as
they sang,—

A Soldier. — quot; Abeahkeutah is mere
child\'s play to destroy ; I will command the
army there. The agaou and passoo will
not be required.quot;

A soldier questioned the actions of
those who were made officers; when the
king told him he could promote whom he
pleased.

An Amazon. — \'\' This knife (holding one
up) was given me by the king, it has not
been used: let us go to war. Originally the
amazons were not relied upon: now they are
the most useful of troops.quot;

quot; This book was given me by Bah-dah-hoong
(the heir apparent) to give to my \' Father\'

Much more flattery and mutual praise
continued till about 3 p. m., when food was
distributed, and a number of goats and
fowls presented by the chiefs to the king.
His majesty then presented eight boys to
the lah-ee to keep her house clean, and thus
ended the proceedings.

had an interview with the king on matters
of Brihiny : rather contrary to regulations
when her Majesty\'s consul was present.

The cha-cha received his present or
pass : after which a visitor is at liberty to
withdraw. The captain of his band is from
Jena, a countryman of one of our inter-
preters. He called to-day, and, in conversa-

tion, told him to explain to us that we had
better warn the missionaries in Abeahkeutah
to withdraw, as the king of Dahomey was
going to make war there. I asked him if
he felt confident of conquest. To which he
answered : quot; The king will make a fetish

* In reference to this fetish or Brihiny, and pro-
bable division of the chiefs of Abeahkeutah, I quote
extracts from the Rev. Henry Tov^nsend\'s (of the
Church Mission Society) evidence before Mr. Hutt\'s
committee.

7719.nbsp;I first went to Abeahkeutah in the latter part
of 1842. . . I was there sent on a mission to in-
quire into the state of the country, to see if there was
any possibility of our forming an establishment there.

7720.nbsp;I left Abeahkeutah in March of the present
year, and I arrived in England, June 26. 1848.

subsequently sent myself, the Kev. Mr. Crowther, and
Mr. Gollmar to occupy the station at Abeahkeutah,

7732. The government itself is rather difficult to
define (inasmuch as the people are not now under a
settled government). Formerly it was a monar-
chical government: now, in consequence of the slave
trade, the people who formerly lived in large towns,

to divide the Abeahkeutans, and then they
cannot stand against his army. Eemember

7734. (Thus they became concentrated in the
towns.) A quarrel arose among the people, and some
fighting took place : ultimately one of the towns was
destroyed, and the people sold into slavery. Those
that escaped joined those that besieged, and made an
attack upon others . . . until the whole country
was in a state of disorder. Some of the people finding
this spot (Abeahkeutah) likely to prove a safe place,
resorted to it; and then the people scattered abroad
in the country took refuge in it, until now the town
has become extremely large.

7734. (Thus the natives state the cause of the war.)
The people of two or three different towns assembled
together at one town to trade, . . . and some
quarrel took place for the sake of one cowrie\'s-worth
of pepper (30th part of a penny). . . . (Truly
African.)

7739. (This part is extremely corroborative.) At
the present time the country is very much disor-
ganised. The most sensible among the chiefs are
desirous of peace; but they cannot always command
the people. And there are a number of people in
Abeahkeutah thirsting for war, on account of the slave
\'iquot;ade. , . . (Here is the fetish to be stirred up.)

How a Brazilian (for such the cha-cha
calls himself) can justify his lending 140
men to the king, to assist him in his mur-
derous slave hunts, I cannot understand. A
little of Gallinas discipline would soon bring
these devastating merchants to their senses ;
and God grant they may soon be taught
the errors of their ways ! And now, that
Quittah belongs to the British government,
nothing can be easier than to land a force
there, and, descending by canoes, destroy all
the haunts in the bight. What are the ob-

7744. The name of the province is Egba; the
name of the kingdom Youribah. The Egba country
used to have a king, who was tributary to the Youri-
bah kingdom. Abeahkeutah is the capital of Egbah
{Mahee Anagoo). Almost all large African states are
formed of several provinces.

7746. Abeahkeutah means quot; under the stone quot;: a
large natural cave, in which the market is held, and
might form a retreat for the besieged. Besides this
protection, it is situated on the banks of a river, and a
likely place for trade. Thirty years ago there was not
an inhabitant.

stacles ? One French house at Whydah, and,
if report speaks true, very little less a
slave house than Da Souza\'s. In such a ques-
tion I count the British as nought. Mark
the saving of expense. I lay the raising of
forts at 20,000Z. (double the sum given for
the Danish forts) ; and, putting the other
expenses (in landing and various opera-
tions, prize money, amp;c.) at 30,000/., 50,000/.
would perfectly stop in three months what
IS an impossibility in the present state of
operations. Land a force of black troops
at Quittah, let them march to Badagry,
whilst small steamers ascending the Benin
can pass into Lagos, and the whole expedi-
tion might commemorate the annihilation of
the slave trade in the bights in one year
after its commencement. In the north
slavery is stopped; stop it in the bights,
and two thirds of this vast continent no
longer require to be blockaded. Money
expended simply on marine coercion acts
merely in preventing increase, as I defy
any one to say that decrease is consequent.
Three cotemporaneous courses are requisite

to destroy the slave trade. These are: —
stringent treaties of amity with European
and Christian powers ;— stringent treaties,
nolens volens, with the monsters who, for
the sake of paltry gain, which they make an
evil use of, sell their countrymen to enrich
the stranger land;—and the destruction of
slaving for ever, by erecting British forts
on the commanding positions. When such
operations are in force, there will be some
reason to suppose the slave trade to be
tottering. The present unassisted opera-
tions of the squadron keep up necessarily
the numbers of slave vessels; while, where-
ever danger exists, or a denial is put to an
article of commerce, it is hopeless to believe
that all the exertions of force alone can
prevent its introduction. Still these opera-
tions by land and sea will certainly render
the traffic precarious, expensive to the
trader, and I may say generally ruinous.

These are the principal to deal with. The
cha-cha, for all I know, may be a brave
man in the common acceptation of the
term; but I question the bravery of a man

who sits down in luxury and lends hun-
dreds to war (by surprise) on his neigh-
bours, in order, only, that he may reap the
benefit, knowing, as every one conversant
Avith Dahoman affairs must, that for each
slave two have been murdered,—one on the
field, and one in the hall.

June 21.9^.-This morning the See-que- The water-
ah-hee was performed over the grave of the gquot;fvJof
kmg\'s grandmother, Seh-noo-meh. The

beh-noo-meh was present in brilliant cos-
tume, attended by the lady holding the
title of royal mother. The position! dif-
fered but little from those previously de-
scribed.

On the neutral ground knelt all the
amazon officers, and a band of music played,
whilst they sang at great length in praise
Of the royal liberality, enumerating many
such acts, and among them the gifts of
eight boys to the quot; lah-ee.quot;

At the conclusion of the songs a dialogue
immediately commenced, inciting the ama-
zons to renew their songs.

Too-noo-noo.—quot;The songs you sing in
his Majesty\'s praise are sweet to hear.
Sing more.quot;

Amazon Miegan. — quot; Sing again and lend
all your powers to the song, for your lives
are at the king\'s mercy.quot;

Too-noo-noo.—quot;Oh, how wise is the
king ! Hence the general diffusion of wis-
dom : all his people are wise.quot;

LeJi-peli-hoong.—quot; Too-noo-noo spoke the
truth when he said the king was wise:
wisdom emanates from him, and spreadeth
itself among the people.quot;

Thus encouraged, the amazon officers
then recommenced their songs, when a dis-
pute arose about the incorrectness of the
music. They sang a lengthened theme on
the antiquity of the customs, and called on
Seh-noo-meh to dance. With her train
borne by a maiden, she came forth and
danced, attended by four of the king\'s fetish

Food was now generally distributed, and
numbers of the soldiers, in songs of self-
praise, swore to conquer or to die. Then
said the mayo : quot; Ponder your words over
well before you give utterance: consider
them ere you swear before the king.quot;

To this chorus succeeded a short dialogue
of boasting and recrimination between two
chiefs.

Koh-koh-ah-gee. —hands are well
armed, they will fight well in war. What
power I have is generously bestowed by
Gezo.quot;

Ilung-hah-gee. — quot; You may, because of
the number of your people: beware, lest
some day you stumble.quot;

Koh-koh-ah-gee.—\'\'It is of little use to
talk of taking a town, until the king has
decided: wherever the war shall be, there
will I lead my men.quot;

Toh-koh-noo-veh-seh. — quot;In talking you
are all brave: prove yourselves so in war.quot;

The king here interfered with a speech
entirely inaudible, but which seemed to
give satisfaction, as Koh-koh-ah-gee con-
cluded the discussion, by saying, quot; Now that
you have taught us, we cannot err.quot;

The saugan then performed the Dahoman Dahoman
marriage ceremony, receiving quot; a glass of
rum quot; from his bride elect; while the mae-
hae-pah bade him drain the glass Mdth
jealous zeal, nor give one drop to any caboo-
ceer. Some fifty heads of cowries were
then divided among the bands, and a pre-
sent made to the Seh-noo-meh. The king
drank a glass of spirits to the Seh-noo meh,
with the usual accompaniment of guns,
drums, and shouting, while a herald pro-
claimed, quot; Gezo, king of kings, that could
take all other kings, and sell them for
rum.quot; After this quot;poeticquot; eulogium, the
band of singers occupying the neutral
ground called for Ah-loh-peh and the other
chiefs who were disgraced at the previous
feast.

Prostrated on the ground, the chief was
asked his new name by the band, who,
receiving it as quot; Gar-jah-doh,quot; or quot;fallen
house,quot; sang,—

quot; Oh, Fallen House !
That was once considered worthy of carrying arms ■
Be thou now disgraced to bear a club.quot;
M 3

grave of the holdiug the title of royal mother, presided at
the watering the graves of Gezo\'s mother
and her relations. The positions were the
same as before. First, several female bands
of music passed, and received each a present
of cowries. Then the amazon officers lauded
the king to the very skies, in verse, thus: —

One only, Gezo !
All nations have their customs,
But none so brilliant or enlightened

As of Dahomey.
People from far countries are here:
Behold! all nations, white and black.
Send their ambassadors.quot;

Every body in the yard, except the
whites, and those privileged as ee-a-boos
(whites), then prostrated and kissed the
dust, whilst the female officers sang —

quot; Yoribah lied
When Yoribah said she could conquer Dahomey:
When we meet we\'ll change their night into day

Let the rain fall:
The season past, the river dries.¹
Yoribah and Dahomey!
Can two rams drink from one calabash ?
The Yoribahs must have been drunk to say
Dahomey feared them:
They could conquer Dahomey.

An Amazon. — quot; In the days of our ances-
tors, the white trader brought good articles.
A musket then lasted twenty years, now
three.quot; t

quot; There\'s a difference between Gezo and a poor man.
There\'s a difference between Gezo and a rich man :
If a rich man owned all,
Gezo would still be king.

t I doubt much if this was not a double entendre,
meaning that formerly a musket would be of little use
in Dahomey, but now its use is universal. All these
sayings, as will be seen, are in abstruse parables.

Some are long, some short, some thick, some thin.
The Yoribahs must be a drunken nation,
And thus we will dance before them.quot;

Of their dance tliey then gave a rehearsal,
whilst the heralds recited the king\'s names,
and added: quot; There is a leaf called \' ee-a-boo\'
(probably poison) : let the king make a fetish
with it, and Abeahkeutah must fall. Every
thing Gezo does is well done. His power is
supreme over the male and female of all
kinds.quot;

quot; With these guns in our hands
And powder in our cartouch-boxes,
What has the king to fear ?

An amazon here summoned the king\'s
sons, who, advancing, kissed the dust and
prostrated themselves before the throne.
She then exhorted them to make a good
fetish for their father, quot; that his days may

be long in the land.quot; She added: quot; The
king prays to the fetish for you. Let all
the royal family pray to their ancestors
for long life to Gezo. If the leopard kills
her prey, does she not feed her young?
If the deer brings forth young, does she
not nibble grass for it ?quot;

Bah-cloo-liong (heir apparent). — quot; So long
as I live, I shall call upon the fetish to
cause my father\'s life to be happy and con-
tinued.quot; (A general salute followed.)

Toh-dah-sah (a female cousin of the king)
to the amazons. — quot;If you would procure
the honey, you must do it carefully, or you
Avill be stung.quot;

The Ah-con-tih-meh and her attendants
here commenced a dance before the king,
each carrying a human skull, whilst the
amazon officers continued chantina:_

The Seh-noo-meh then received a present,
and, attended by her skull ornaments and
followers, marched off. Food was now gene-
rally distributed, and rum and other liqueurs

Leh-peh-hoong received a small liqueur
case full of bottles, filled (as the mae-hae-
pah explained to him) with a sample of
every liqueur his Majesty had drank during
the customs.

A general assemblage now took place
of all the bands of singers, musicians, and
others, who had taken part in these cus-
toms ; and the yard became crowded to
excess. All received food and rum. The
king presented cowries to the traders,
ministers, cabooceers, and principal officers,
and to the cha-cha\'s brothers. During the
time that Ignatio and Antonio da Souza
were receiving ten heads of cowries each,
the singers chorused —

Oh! wonderful king, to receive
These cowries from the white man
And give them back again !quot;

One hundred and sixty heads of cowries
were given to the ministers to make the
fetish custom.

Much self-praise and laudation of his
Majesty ensued. After the repast Koh-
koh-ah-gee and Hung-bah-gee became so
personal, in their boasting and recrimi-
nation, that the king cautioned each not to
promise more than he could perform.

The amazons joined in the praises of
those on whom royalty smiled, and attacked
those who, on the contrary, fell under the
royal (and consequently popular) displea-
sure in a despotic court. The day had
all the features of the former, with one
brightening lustre, quot;more valuable than
the glitter of the diamond to the miner,quot;
it was the last of the quot; See-que-ah-hee.quot; The
quot;watering of the gravesquot; was over; and
may the Dahomans be confounded and put
to shame, before another quot; Hwae-mae-noo quot;
(occurrence of every year) disgraces the
first year of the second half of the nine-
teenth century!

The decapitations of which we were aware
amounted to thirty-two; but I have no
doubt many more victims were sacrificed.
I leave the reader to make his own com-

ment on what I have attempted to describe,
asking him if it be not too true, that quot; truth
is far more strange than fiction.quot;

Before closing my account of the cus-
toms, I may add a few more facts. Every
night heralds paraded the town, crying
quot; Haussoo lae-beh Haussoo!quot; (oh, king of
kings! amp;c.), and enumerating the king\'s
names and the names of his conquests. Be-
fore going, I was under the supposition that
the very streets would run with rum, and
that there would be danger from the be-
wildered state of barbarous minds conse-
quent on the vice of drunkenness. There
was none, and rum, although served in
large quantities, was so distributed, that no
one had at a time more than a gill. There
was a rule in the whole; and, while great
liberality was apparent, a reference to the
Appendix will show that after all it was
display only, and that actually but little
became the portion of each.

As our object was to discover, as per-
fectly as possible, his Majesty\'s disburse-
ments, and make a calculation of his pro-
bable wealth, we had to appear at the
palace to count 924 heads of cowries, and
to examine the contents of a puncheon of
rum to be given to headsmen of towns and
districts who had attended these customs.
One more remark upon these presents.

I have said before that all people, high
and low, are obliged to attend or send a
present, each according to his wealth; and
these presents (amounting from the slave-
dealers to thousands of dollars, in our case
to fifteen hundred dollars\' worth) are passed
in under cover to the palace : no one sees
them, and each is afraid to tell his neigh-
bour what he gives. On the other hand,
when his Majesty makes a return (about a
halfpenny in the pound), all the quality
of Dahomey attend, and while heralds pro-
claim the gift, court-fools and sycophants

laud the giver. Ministers and others stagger
under a load of cowries, before receiving
which they have wallowed in the dust, and,
when these added to their own stores, they
are as the drop to the ocean.

any further, to introduce the reader to our
interpreters, as they will now assume a pro-
minent position. I shall give them the pre-
cedence of the Dahoman court,_quot; that of

First, then, Nar-whey, as rich a merchant Our inter-
as exists in Dahomey, and as great a slave-
dealer. This man\'s father was a servant in
the British fort at Whydah, and his son by
birthright has his place. He speaks English,
but Portuguese better; is quot; hand and footquot;
to the viceroy of Whydah, and spy to any
that will pay him most. He has got an
extensive domain at Whydah; secondly, a
large farm at Torree; thirdly, Whybao-on;
fourthly, Ah-grimeh; fifthly, Troo-boo-doo;\'

sixthly, Carrnah; and, again, a domain at
Abomey. He is the owner of upwards of
1000 slaves, and as deep a villain as ever
breathed.

Custom (which rules everybody and every
thing at the court of Dahomey) obliges
every Englishman to be attended by this
rascal. His house in Dahomey is the patri-
monial residence; and he sacrificed a male
and female slave at the tomb of his father,
to be servant and hand-maid to him in the
world of spirits.

The second, Mark or Madi-ki Lemon, has
been already partly described, a perfect
Dahoman : too big a fool to be a rogue, but
simple as the untaught child : simply useful,
that, in interpreting with the other, if Nar-
whey gave a wrong version, the king would
at once detect it.

The third, John Richards, a Jena man,
formerly a slave on board a Brazilian trader
to the coast, which vessel, being in a leaky
state, put into Fernando Po, and liberated
the slave crew. He was the most useful
of our interpreters, though very sulky, and

the name of interpreter. He was the fort
interpreter; but, as few Englishmen had
tor the last half century visited it, he had
become unaccustomed to his work, and
although a respectable man, was a bad
interpreter.

Such were the tools with which we had
to attempt that which, if effected, would
have given a world-wide fame to our visit

June - The mayo visited us, and
told us his Majesty would be engaged
nmkmg a fetish and that, consequently,
we would have to stop at least ten days
before we could enter upon the object of our
mission. We concluded our day by visiting
a large assemblage of fetish people, who
were making \'\'customquot; in the Ah-jah-ee
market. A guard of amazons was in the
neighbourhood, and within a circle danced

about 100 women, all gaily dressed. Scat-
tered about were the mangled remains of a
sacrificed bullock, on wliich the turkey-
buzzards were feeding, with dreadful appe-
tite, in thousands. The men did not appear
to take part in the dance; but we had no
sooner appeared than Leh-peh-hoong, the
king\'s eldest brother, sent to oifer seats.
Joining him, we found him superintending
the fête, attended by several cabooceers,
and were at once supplied with liqueurs
of various kinds. The dancing continued
with great spirit to the music of several
discordant bands. quot;We then visited the
pottery (that is to say, we took a bird\'s-
eye view of it from an eminence.) I have
already explained why we could not go near
to it. The clay is brought from the oozy
ground of the valley in the north-west,
and covered in small heaps until required.

June —Visited the palace of Ahgon-
groo (the father of Gezo), at a distance
of three miles from Abomey by the south
gate : a large enclosure, like all palaces in
Dahomey, only inhabited by women. It is
thus the king becomes so rich, holding the

nnmerousprogeny of his ancestors as slaves,
as well as those yearly gained by war.

feouza, were all this day closeted with the
king, conversing, doubtlessly, on the advan-
tages of the slave-trade. Antonio da Souza
had, sans permission, absented himself.
J^o-day he returned much dejected, and the
cause was soon current. Advices from
Brazil had told him of the near approach
9f a schooner fully equipped. He arrived

^n^hydah on the evening of the 22nd-
and, on the 23d, saw H. M. steamer Gla-
diator pass with his schooner in tow

J-une27tA.-The ee-a-voo-gan called in
the morning, and the mayo in the evening-
the latter, to disguise his having been
closeted with the Brazilians all day, which,
to Ins astonishment, we told him of. Had
a bird\'s-eye view of the dye-house, which has
^een described as being sacred, as worked
oy the royal wives.

June 28tL - The mayo sent, to say he was
jery ill, and could not call. We therefore
ent a message to him, to desire that he

would acquaint the king with our readiness
to make an offer, and, if possible, to conclude
a treaty.

June — The mayo called, and re-
quested, in his Majesty\'s name, we would
give him our account of the disbursements
of the whole customs, which we explained
to him, and also that we were anxious to
come to a palaver, as we were losing much
time, and it would more accord with the
full dignity of the matter to pay immediate
attention to it.

Sunday in June BOtli.—Suuday is a curious day to
contemplate in a barbarous country. What
a glorious gift to the labourer is the Sabbath!
Yet strange, in three-fourths of the known
globe its use is unpractised ! In some parts
of Africa, there is an intermission of labour.

I am fond of oysters. Do you know,
reader, that these lagoons of Africa yield
natives ? One day being in my boat on
the lagoon of Mayumba, a number of
sables, of the weaker sex, were jabbering
in high delight on the banks, and as-
sembled in hundreds gathering oysters.
The mafouka, or head of the customs or

chief trader, was with me, and explained
that every fourth day was a holiday, not
kept holy, but devoted to the will of the
working classes; in short, a sort of remu-
neration to the slave for the three days
labour.

Sunday in Abomey is not known : there
is no cessation from a continuous term of
pleasure (if the customs deserve the name),
even in its African acceptation, except that
human nature, being over-burdened, must
need relaxation.

July l6^.-The mayo called, and ex-
plamed that he was to meet his Majesty and
appoint a day for our interview; asked if
we had any proposition to make. We ex-
plained to him that he was already pos-
sessed with our anxiety for an interview,
and that delay was irksome.

The Mahee provinces have been long The
overrun by Dahomey; yet there still remain o\'Jtifrf
parts unconquered. The king held out a
promise of amnesty to these, on condition
that their chiefs repaired to Abomey, and
swore allegiance. This morning, as I re-

turned from my walk, a crowd was assem-
bled in rear of a fine-looking black, who,
followed by five attendants, entered at the
Cannah gate, with a palm-branch round his
neck, and passed towards the Dange-lah-
cordeh palace.

After my bath, I followed in the same
direction, and, entering the square of the
Agrim-gomeh palace, found Leh-peh-hoong
and the cabooceers assembled ready to
receive this chief, who came, under the pro-
mised truce, to swear fealty to the tyrant.
In front of the cabooceers was Poh-veh-soo,
the headsman, and his band of club-men.
The envoy of peace passed thrice round in
front of the council, each time prostrating,
and beating the dust with his forehead; on
prostrating the third time, Poh-veh-soo and
his gang beat the ground, and, with menacing
gestures, caused the degrading ceremony to
be repeated over and over again.
The king\'s July\'^ud. — The mayo and ee-a-voo-gan
his ex- called with his Majesty\'s account of what had
penses.nbsp;disbursed during the customs. The

of the customs an amount of 26,000 heads of
cowries (dollars) was declared to have been
distributed. Since then, the king had never
attempted to cause us to prejudge the
amount of his wealth. Yet we nervously
expected his majesty would now, through
his ministers, place his liberality on such a
vast scale as would remove it beyond our
power to offer what might appear to be a
sufficient argument to cause him to aban-
don his lucrative traffic in slaves. What,
then, was our astonishment, when, after
being fearfully frightened by the appearance
of four slaves, burdened with cowries, which
we knew to be the account, we found the
sum total to be 32,000 heads of cowries; or,
deducting from these one seventh (the dif-
ference of the royal quot; heads of cowriesquot; from
the current head), that he laid his expenses
at 28,000 dollars. It perhaps may not be
out of place here to explain this difference
of currency. Cowries, generally, are paid
away in their original state; but those
emanating from his Majesty are strung by
the ladies of the harem, who charge a per-

centage of fourteen per cent. The com-
missioners further explained to us, that
what Ave had witnessed AA^as only one cus-
tom: that the remainder of the yearly
customs Avould cost 11,820 dollars. From
this report, Ave augured that his Majesty
would be open to conviction; but, as the
sequel will prove, Ave calculated without our
host.

One of his Majesty\'s daughters, Avhom I
had frequently met in my Avalks, sent me a
present of yams and fruit, and an invitation
to call: she Avas the chief wife of the mie-
gan. The allurements offered by this sul-
tana Avere somewhat to be compared to
those of quot; Jack\'s quot; temptation, illustrated in
Dibdin\'s quot; Sea Songs,quot; in point of beauty
and extent of person. I concluded that the
society of African princesses was not so
agreeable as to invite intrigue.

July Brd. — The mayo and ee-a-voo-gan
called, and gave us the royal command to be
ready to enter into particulars to-morrow.
In conversation about the trade, they told
us that, quot; if one trade-ship arrived in Why-

dah, the king claimed half the trade; if
three, he monopolised two.quot; From this we
argued, that these worthies would have us
to know that whatever was offered in sub-
sidy, one half only became the property of
the king: the other of the traders.

July A.th. — li rained hard during the The palaver
forenoon. At noon we started for the pa-
lace, and at 1 p.m. took our seats in front
of the royal couch, in the same state as we
were before received. The same parties
were present as on the former royal inter-
view.

As usual, compliments passed between
us, and, after an immaterial conversation,
his Majesty stated (each being possessed
of the other\'s account of the expenditure
at the customs, so much discussion was
saved) that he now wished to know the ul-
terior object of the embassy.

In the first place, we answered, we hoped The am-
Iie would put a stop to the slave-trade in
his vast dominions; and in order to do that
we impressed upon him the methods pur-
sued by neighbouring nations, who, by en-

couraging the growth of the palm-tree, had
so well met the market, as now to have a
far more advanced and lucrative trade than
the Portuguese and Brazilians offered to
Dahomey. That the first step to the esta-
bhshment of the palm-oil trade must be the
encouragement of labour within his domi-
nions ; and, instead of devastating his neigh-
bours\' territories (particularly those whose
geographical position placed Dahomey be-
tween them and the sea), he should, if war
were unavoidable, reduce them, binding
them by treaties to join in the pursuit of
agriculture and trade, and then, by levying
transit duties on their goods, cause them to
enrich him far more than the mere sale of the
slaves of the exterminating hunt. Thus,
by making Dahomey the centre of a vast
trading country, all kinds of goods would
soon find their way into his kingdom, and
instead of being dependent on a few mer-
chants for the paltry articles with which
they chose to supply him, he might demand
the choicest merchandise of the world, — a
boon already obtained by many neighbours.

By thus turning a military into an agricul-
tural people, and raising himself into the
envious position of a reformer of the ini-
quitous and fearful habits of his people, in
the course of time, he could abolish those
fearful sacrifices he had already reduced in
numbers, and then his memory would be re-
vered by all nations, and be handed down
in love and peace instead of slaughter.

The king gave a history of trade, from its The king
earliest commencement in Whydah and Da- \'
homey, down to the present date. First, he
said, the French came to Whydah before
Dahomey conquered it. War put a stop to
trade for many years. The white man
left Whydah in Ah-dah-hoon-zar\'s time: the
English traders were the first who landed
there, and bought slaves. His father had
impressed him with the belief that the
English were the first of white men: he
thought so, and desired much to be at peace
with them. quot; Time had passed,quot; he con-
tinued, quot; but the Dahomans had never given
up slave-dealing. His people were soldiers,
his revenue the proceeds of the slave trade

(or the sale of prisoners of war). Do
we not observe the absence of agriculture ?
Other nations deal in slaves, but not like
me : they keep no customs, make no
general disbursement. The slave-trade of
these states must be stopped before I can
treat.quot;

The am- We again observed that he was parting
reply. (for a Small pecuniary recompense) with
the source of all riches, labour; that, if he
retained his slaves and made them cultivate
the soil, Dahomey (its resources once deve-
loped) would become a great nation, and
himself a great king.
The king\'s The king then dictated a letter to her
Majesty, stating his anxiety for peace with
Great Britain; his willingness to enter into
treaty when the trade was stopped in the
neighbouring petty chiefdoms; his wish for
a British consul to be sent to his kingdom;
for missionaries to visit Dahomey, and re-
side in Whydah ; and that the military state
of his subjects alone at present precluded
his becoming the head of an agricultural
people.

^ During the writing of this letter the mi-
nisters and interpreters were in full conver-
sation, now and then retiring in couples and
whispering. One of the interpreters, speak-
ing of the palm-oil trade being the prefer-
able, was at once silenced by Narwhey, who
remarked, that the slave trade was quot; sweet
to him when absent from Englishmen.quot; The
ministers all showed their pleasure at his
Majesty\'s postponement, except the viceroy
of Whydah, who could not disguise an
anxiety, lest the refusal might lead his go-
vernment into danger from the stoppage of
trade.

In order that his Majesty should perfectly Lord chi-
understand his letter, I read it to him, ituef\'
(through the interpreters) ; and finding we
could do no more on that subject, Mr.
Beecroft produced a copy of a letter from
the Eari of Chichester to quot; Sagbua,quot; chief of
Abeahkeutah, in answer to one in which that
chief had requested British protection. The
mention of Abeahkeutah roused the^whole,
and several sharp questions were at once
put why we befriended the Abeahkeutans,

We explained that it was too evident
they intended to make war on Abeahkeutah ;
that it was our duty to tell the king that the
Abeahkeutans were allies of Great Britain,
and that several missionaries were residing
there, besides a host of liberated Africans.

The king told Mr. Beecroft that he had
better warn the missionaries to leave.^ And

* My reasons for being thus impressive on the
king were: first, a communication has been kept up
between Sayloca, the chief, and the Church Mission
Society, on the point of protection ; secondly, that the
whole colony of Sierra Leone is interested by family
connection with Abeahkeutah, and, if anything further
were wanting, the following evidence from the exami-
nation of the Rev. H. Townsend before Mr. Hutt\'s
committee, would suffice.

7759. Can you state to the committee any succour
which has been vouchsafed to you in the formation of
that missionary settlement (at Abeahkeutah) ? Yes ;
when I first went to Abeahkeutah I met the chief,
Sho-de-ke there. He was not the king, but he had
virtually all the power of a king, but he had not the
title of honour bestowed upon him. He wished me to
return to this country, saying, that he would afford

in answer to his question how the mission-
aries came there, Mr. Beecroft told him,

all the protection that it was possible for him to do,
stating that he would help us to build a residence, and
even a church, and would give us children to teach,
more than it was possible for us to teach. On my re-
turn the wars of the country prevented our proceed-
ing to Abeahkeutah, and we remained at Badagry
eighteen months, and myself and Mr. Crowther pro-
ceeded at that time to Abeahkeutah.

from him (the chief). But a few days after our ar-
rival Sho-de-ke dies; but the chief that was in his room
received us very favourably, gave us ground to build
on, and assisted us in every way that he could, and
the people were most attentive to our instructions.
They assembled together in large numbers ; in fact, so
much so, that we are now in the course of erecting a
fifth place of worship in the course of eighteen months.

7762.nbsp;We have had congregations of many hun-
dreds, perhaps five, six, seven, or eight, hundred oc-
casionally, but not in a place of worship,

But I baptized five natives of the country; that is, per-
sons who had never been to Sierra Leone, who were
heathens when I reached the country, and I left in one

that quot; the men of God were in every coun-
try where their labour was likely to make
impression on the natives. Would he allow
them to reside in Abomey ?quot;

Turning to the mayo, I asked if he had
discovered the owner of the two kroomen ;
but he declared he had not. (These kroo-
men are not British subjects, and therefore
I could go no farther.)

We now explained to the king that he
held a British subject in prison; that one
John M\'Carthy, a liberated Sierra Leone
African, was at that time incarcerated in
the camboodee\'s house. We were certain
of our information, as his wife had seen
and conversed with him, and we demanded
his release.

The king turned to the mayo, and ordered
him to examine into the case, and report

class for particular instruction for baptism sixty-five
individuals ; so tbat altogether there have been seventy
persons vç-ho have come forward to join the Christian
church, professing to have cast away idolatry.

accordingly; and thus ended our last inter-
view by drinking a glass of liqueur to-
gether.

ca-ou-peh brought his Majesty\'s presents,
and, after much display and many high-flown
expressions on the royal munificence, de-
livered two magnificent country cloths (to
me) to present to her Majesty. To Mr. Bee-
croft and myself (each) a rich country cloth,
a captive girl, a cabooceer\'s stool, and foot-
stool, ten heads of cowries, one keg of rum.
A small present of cowries and of rum to
each interpreter, and our hammockmen.

On inquiring when we would start, we
explained that we could not leave until some
definite answer was given to our demand for
the person of John McCarthy. The mayo
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asked for his wife, and, quot; on her appearance
with the child,quot; begged she might go with
him, in order to recognise her husband. To
which we agreed. On taking leave, the
• mayo explained that he had the king\'s
command to salute her Majesty and our-
selves the following morning.

July Qtli. — At six in the morning the
mayo and ee-a-voo-gan arrived, and almost
at the same time the saluting battery sent
forth a salute of twenty-one guns in honour
of her Majesty Queen Victoria; while we
drank her health in a glass of Madeira; after
which, thirteen guns were fired for each,
Mr. Beecroft and myself.

liverance of John M\'Carthy, his wife and
child (whom we ascertained had been im-
prisoned by the camboodee). In answer,
they explained that the king would cer-
tainly free them, but he had not had time
to see into the matter.

I then turned to the ee-a-voo-gan (viceroy
ot n hydah) and put the question, quot; Would he
hold himself responsible to either Mr. Bee-
croft or myself (should either of us re-
turn to Whydah), for the appearance ofthe
prisoners?quot; He evaded the question, and
said that quot; such a matter was not worth
talking about, it was a small palaver, and
the king would soon end it; that it was en-
tirely in the king\'s hands, and that as the
prisoners were not in his power, he could
not be held responsible.quot;

Seeing, evidently, that if left, the unfor-
tunate trio would be summarily dealt with
I seized ray note book, which lay on the
table, and standing up, thus addressed them
With strong emphasis : —nbsp;\'

quot; I am going straight to England, and
Shall acquaint her Majesty that the king of
IJahomy holds three British subjects in
prison;quot; at the same time dashing the book
on the table. The shock was electrical; they
begged of me not to be angry, that they
^ould go at once to the king and intercede,
i then added, that quot;as I had spoken, so I

On arrival, found Mr. Beecroft had gone
on to Zboboodoo, and that one of the three
men we had purchased was so ill he could
not walk. It occupied me about three hours
to hire two men to carry him, and pur-
chase a country cloth to sling him to a
pole. This man having been doomed by the
king, it appeared against the wish of the
people to assist him, and for some time I
failed in getting any assistance for him;
at last, I placed him in my own hammock,
and made my hammockmen carry him.
Promising that, unless they found others to
do so, I would myself walk, and they should
carry the wretched man to Whydah, they
soon found some slaves of Narwhey whom
they pressed into service.
Hasty mes. Still Walking, I had reached about three
the king, miles from Cannah, when a messenger,
released. breathless with haste, overtook me, telling

me that Narwhey (who had left us) was on
the road, on horseback, with a message from
the king. In a short time he came up
followed by John M\'Carthy, his wife, and
child, and, prostrating, told me his Majesty
had sent them with this message; quot; He
could not keep a British subject in prison.quot;
Karwhey hinted that a present would be
acceptable to his Majesty; which was sent
from Whydah.

We slept at Zooboodoo, and much more
happily than we could have expected.
_ Mrs. M\'Carthy had been seized almost M^Cauhy.
immediately after leaving our house, strip-
ped, chained, and imprisoned in the camboo-
dee^ house. Having heard, on the evening
of July 5 th, from a passer-by, that she had
been imprisoned, I sent Kichards, one of
the interpreters, to ascertain the facts of the
case. He returned about one next morning,
and explained, that not only had Mrs. M\'Car-
thy been imprisoned, but that her house had
been plundered, and the neighbours feared to
speak to him about her; that his steps had
been dogged by some of the camboodee\'s

soldiers. About midniglit she was clothed
and enlarged, and her infant, who had been
removed, returned to her, probably from
Richards\'s appearance; shortly after, she
was again stripped and ironed.

The next morning, her guards told her
that the camboodee would reward her for re-
porting the king to the white men as soon
as they had left the city, and that she
might prepare for death. John M\'Carthy
was also told, that his wife had been seized,
and he, his wife, and child, would be put to
death that day.

In the forenoon they were taken out of
prison, and some of their boxes brought,
from which they were hurriedly allowed to
select each a dress, and each to make a
small bundle; they were then taken to the
square of Dange-lah-cordeh, where his Ma-
jesty sat, surrounded by his people. Ex-
pecting instant death, they prostrated, and
were going to throw dirt on their heads,
when the king forbade them, told them they
were quot; white men,quot; and that they were now
free.

The property of both was retained; nor
did I like to interfere further after so great
a victory.

July 1th—Passed the swamp, which was
very bad (owing to the late rains) ; we were
twelve hours on the road.

of our quarters at Wagon, guarded by about i^LlZ.
thirty musketeers, were the bodies of two
deceased cabooceers, one from Whydah, the
other from Gohdohmeh. It is the custom
of Dahomey that the bodies of all officers
that die shall be sent for interment to
Abomey, for the following reasons:_

2nd. That the official positions are mostly
held by Abomey people, and all have ances-
tral houses in the city, in which there is in-
variably a family tomb. Whenever a great
man, or a man in favour with the king, dies,
a boy and a girl at least are sacrificed on the
tomb; the girl to be handmaid, the boy to
attend the deceased in the land of spirits:
these at least, but frequently more. It is

also customary for the favourite wife to
commit suicide; being generally the last
wish of the dying, and as they imagine they
pass into the land of spirits together. But
frequently many of the wives are also sa-
crificed to illustrate the filial piety of the
heir.

July —Paid all debts of the Mission.
The currency of Dahomey had put us to
several straits and inconveniences. I have
before mentioned ten dollars as a load, in
cowries, for a man. The French merchant\'s
house was the only one we could purchase
from; and every week we had to send for a
fresh supply. The roads being bad, they
were sometimes behind time; and at last we
had five of our carriers on the road, besides
three sick. We were constrained to hire
labour from Narwhey, who lent his slaves at
a dollar a head (which he pocketed), sub-
sisting them en route at his various farms.

Down, the clerk m charge, came on shore
with it. The surf being very high, he was
unable to return, and, I regret to have to
record it, contracted the fever, and died on
the passage to Sierra Leone,

It was the most sickly tinae in Whydah,
and many we met were either suffering or
recovering from fever. By the will and
goodness of Providence, we had both es-
caped; and except an attack of ague (in
my case the remains of the same disease
m China) we each contracted from getting
thoroughly drenched in a tornado, had not
had a headache.

little, embarked the baggage, after it had
been once capsized and washed on shore,
although damaged, but little lost.

July 12. —On leaving the British fort Fedsh
this morning, we learned that an extraordi-
nary instance of the gorging of the fetish
snake had taken place in the night. The rep-
tile lay in the kitchen in dreadful pain, trying
to force the hind legs and tail of a cat into his
distended stomach, now in the shape of the

half-swallowed victim, A fetish woman
arriving, carried her deity to the temple.

We had much difficulty in getting canoe-
men. Mr.-\'s agent has none ; in an-
swer to application at the French fort, the
agents sent to regret that their canoe-men
were working in rethatching the fort (an
unqualified falsehood) ; the cha-cha\'s were
gone to meet Ignatio Da Souza, whose ar-
ray as a cabooceer, with noise and dirt,
was entering the town ; Domingo Martins\'
were all at Porto Novo. José Almeida, in

sent the truth. quot; If you want a set of
canoe-men for yourself, you shall have them ;
if for a merchant vessel of any nation,
they are at your service; but for British
officers, I \'11 see them damned first ! quot;

and the surf not being very high, we got
well outside the bar, and embarked in the
boats of H. M, S. Bonetta.

I was once in conversation with a native
of Madeira, a slave-merchant. quot; That man,quot;

he said, pointing to a young Portuguese, quot; is
a murderer.quot; One day, seated in his hall,

he had any fire-arms in his house. On being
answered in the negative, he displayed a
brace of pistols, and snapped each at Don
lago, and then rushed from the house. Don
lago, feeling certain that his life was not
safe, and that\' there was no law to protect
him, agreed with a sailor of a captured
slaver (a Brazilian) who had been landed,
£0 murder Don Juan for one ounce of gold.
That night he watched in vain, and in the
night came repentance; the next morning
Don lago sought his hireling, and explained
to him his repentance, and offered another
ounce to quit him of his engagement. What
was his astonishment at its being indignantly
rejected!

quot;Do you think I am chicken-hearted? I
have made up my mind Don Juan shall die,
and nothing shall save him: if you dare to
interfere, Pll have your life too.quot;

In the evening, under the shade of some
lofty trees, in the square to the right of the

In consequence of the murder of a Portu-
guese priest by fire-arms some short time
before, the king passed a law inflicting a
heavy fine for the discharge of fire-arms after
dark. No sooner was the deed done, than
the murderer was arrested, and marched to
Abomey; but the merchants dared not allow
the king to revenge their colleague\'s death,
lest, having once executed the extreme
penalty of the law on the white man, the
precedent might be dangerous. They bought
him ofi*.

In a more important case, which occurred
about the same time, the king\'s ideas of
justice were not so easily overcome. A
German merchant in Fernando Po sent his
son to trade with Da Souza; and, leaving his
house with some thousands of dollars in
specie about his person, was waylaid by one
of Da Souza\'s sons, and murdered. The
culprit was seized and confined, but escaped
by giving up three slaves to be decapitated;

Arriving at Princes, we were soon joined
byH.M.S. Centaur, with the pendant of the
commander-in-chief; and on July 24th sailed
for England; Mr. Beecroft proceeding in
H. M. S. Jackal to the seat of his govern-
ment, Fernando Po.

I am not sure that my fellow-traveller, Mr.
Beecroft, would much like my passing eulo-
gium on him. His activity astonished me ;
and his perseverance was far beyond what
could be expected, after two and twenty
years\' service in Africa, most of it in the
rivers, and (perhaps not generally known)
nine years in a French prison. As consul
in the Bights he has the reward of many
important services : the assistance he ren-
dered the unfortunate Niger expedition by
no means the least. As a fellow-labourer,
although considerably my senior in years,
he always took his share of the work ; and
as a companion, I would not wish a better.
With Mr. Beecroft I sent the two men I

had purchased to Fernando Po, where the
generous governor promised to give each a
piece of land. At parting I gave them a bag
of clothes, the names of John and George
Forbes, and a free paper, as follows: —

The king\'s present, the little girl, I have
brought to England. She ingratiated her-
self with the crew, among whom she was a
general favourite.

Should the Abeahkeutans make a good
defence, a check might do much towards
putting down this slave-hunting monarch ;
Abeahkeutah, being a central point of trade,
might, if the conquering party, soon overrule
the other slave monarchs, and, assisted by the
presence of the squadron without, put a stop
to the slave trade in the Bights, reducing
the line of coast to be blockaded to a mere
tithe of what it was two years since.
The Daho- I havc Only to add a few particulars
tive, Sarah about my extraordinary present, quot; the Afri-
Bonetta. Can child.quot; In a former portion of these
journals I have mentioned the Okeadon

war : one of the captives of this dreadful
slave hunt was this interesting girl. It
is usual to reserve the best born for the
high behests of royalty, and the immolation
on the tombs of the deceased nobility. For
one of these ends she had been detained at
court for two years; proving, by her not
having been sold to the slave-dealers, that
she was of a good family.

So extraordinary a present would have
been at least a burden, had I not the convic-
tion that, in consideration of the nature of
the service I had performed, the govern-
ment would consider her as the property of
the Crown. To refuse, would have been to
have signed her death-warrant ; which, pro-
bably, would have been carried into execu-
tion forthwith.

Immediately on arriving, I applied through
the Secretary of the Admiralty, and received
for answer that Her Majesty was graciously
pleased to arrange for the education and
subsequent fate of the child. God grant
she may be taught to consider that her
duty leads her to rescue those who have not

Of her own history she has only a con-
fused idea. Her parents were decapitated ;
her brothers and sisters, she knows not
what their fate might have been. For her
age, supposed to be eight years, she is a per-
fect genius; she now speaks English well,
and has a great talent for music. She has
won the affections, with but few exceptions,
of all who have known her, by her docile
and amiable conduct, which nothing can
exceed. She is far in advance of any white
child of her age, in aptness of learning, and
strength of mind and affection ; and with
her, being an excellent specimen of the
negro race, might be tested the capability
of the intellect of the Black : it being gene-
rally and erroneously supposed that after a
certain age the intellect becomes impaired,
and the pursuit of knowledge impossible —■
that though the negro child may be clever,
the adult will be dull and stupid. Her
head is considered so excellent a phrenolo-
gical specimen, and illustrating such high

intellect, that Mr. Pistrucci, the medallist
of the mint, has undertaken to take a bust
of her, intending to present a cast to the
author. Her mind has received a moral
and religious impression, and she was bap-
tized, according to the rites of the Protestant
church, Sarah Forbes Bonetta.

Thus do I close my notes of a visit to a
country, and residence among a people, here-
t^ore known only by report to Europeans.
My long service in the African squadron,
as well as the peculiar nature of my mission
have naturally led me to introduce a few
observations on the question of the repres-
sion of the iniquitous traffic. Generally
however, I have preferred to give facts as I
found them, and to leave them to speak for
themselves.

58 ministers and cabooceers, headed by Ah-
hoh-peh, the king\'s brother, followed by Ignatio
Da Souza, after marching three times round the
square, all except the latter prostrated, and threw
dirt on their heads.

The king left his throne, and crossed over to
our station. After a short conversation he drank

our health, guns firing, ministers and cabooceers,
amp;c., dancing and shouting on his Majesty\'s return.

16 malams (Mahomedan priests from Haussa)
marched round, prostrated, and kissed the dust.
I much doubt, except in dress and some outward
show, that these priests are Mahomedans; the
very fact of their prostrating to the king would
go far to prove them not.

14 liberated quot;Bahiaquot; Africans, in the Eu-
ropean costume, advanced in front of the king\'s
position, and standing, saluted him with cries of
\' Viva el rey de Dahomey ! quot; These unfortunate
men are forced sojourners in the land.

200 male soldiers, holding aloft their muskets,
saluted the king with their rattles. quot; Each sol-
dier has a metal rattle round his neck.quot;

Procession in single file of 2540 women next
passed, carrying the royal wealth to the market
(each bearing her portion on her head), to display
it to the nation, as follows :

7nbsp;forming a band of amazons playing on horns
made of solid elephant\'s tusks.

17 carrying hoes covered with red baize.
1 carrying a silver scimitar.
90 carrying jugs covered with white cloth, all
dressed in spotted blue tobes.

143 all dressed in red striped tobes.
16 carrying hoes covered with red cloth.
30 carrying walking sticks.
22 carrying swords.
22 carrying muskets, two each.
Ill carrying wooden ornaments of dogs, pigs,
sheep, amp;c., jugs, amp;c., and two glass chandeliers,
all in striped tobes.

25 carrying silver ornaments, tea-pots, amp;c.
30 forming a band of drums, tom-toms, amp;c.
12 forming a band of calabash instruments.
16 royal sisters.

20 forming a band of tom-toms, drums, amp;c.
30 ladies in hats and feathers, the representa-
tives in the harem of the thirty privileged males,
necromancers.

8 wives of the king in blue tobes.
1220 carrying cowries, from two to four heads
each, or from two to four dollars\'-worth.
200 carrying each a plateful of cowries.
18 carrying each two heads of cowries, in mats.
7 carrying each two heads of cowries, in
baskets.

7nbsp;carrying each two heads of cowries, in mats,
170 carrying each two rolls of cloth.

10 carrying each two kegs of rum.
4 carrying each rolls of tobacco.
16 carrying each a piece of salt beef.
2 carrying each calabashes of flint.

4 men, each carrying on his head a man tied
hand and foot, and lashed in a wooden canoe,
intended for to-morrow\'s sacrifice.

8, men, each carrying on his head a man tied
hand and foot, and lashed in baskets, intended
for to-morrow\'s sacrifice.

3 men leading an ostrich.
30 male soldiers armed with muskets.
12 forming a male band of elephants\' tusks.
12 forming a male band of drums.

20 amazons, armed with muskets.
1 amazon leading a horse.
20 amazons, armed with muskets.
12 forming a band, drums.
60 amazons, armed with muskets.
12 forming a band, drums.
20 amazons.

1 amazon leading a horse.
] 2 forming a band, elephant\'s tusk horns.
60 amazons guarding a carriage drawn by four,
and attended by four of the king\'s wives under
parasols.
20 amazons.

8 ladies of the royal chamber, handsomely
dressed, ornamented with gold and silver, at-
tended by
40 women.

13nbsp;women carrying calabashes of provisions.
3 women carrying silver baskets.

500 amazons, armed with muskets.
12 forming a band of tom-toms.
10 fetish women.

4 women drawing a carriage made in Dahomey.
33 women carrying large silver-headed sticks.
1 woman carrying a silver scimitar.
4 women carrying large silver ornaments.
1 woman carrying silver baskets.
40 women carrying jugs and ornaments.
50 women carrying pots-de-chambre.
15 women carrying white glass goblets.
13 women carrying blue glass goblets.
70 women carrying blue bottles, from two to
three gallons each.

12 carrying three large calabashes full of the
skulls of kings, amp;c., killed in war.

60 amazons, banners, skulls, amp;c., surroundlnoquot;
the lady holding the title of royal mother.

We received a present of dinner, consisting of
soups, stews, and fowls, in washhand basins, amp;c.;

knives and forks, of very antique shape, of iron.
We discussed our dinner with some lemonade,
gayzeuse, and noyeau, sent by his Majesty.

60 amazons, banners, and attendants, round
two ancient ladies of the harem, bearing the title
of dowager queens.

200 amazons, armed with muskets, attending
on seven wives, mothers by the king, handsomely

We received a present of some wine in a
novel set of decanters, being the bottles of a
handsome cruet-stand; the mustard-pot of which,
we were given to understand, was the tumbler of
the set.

For the last hour, the groups forming the pro-
cession had been returning, and the ladies of the
royal household had merely passed in review. All
parties on re-entering the court-yard, collected, en
masse, under some large trees in front of the
royal tent; in front, the royal wives, and in their
rear, the amazons and bands. When the last of the
procession had passed, an opera scene commenced ;
the royal ladies singing, in his Majesty\'s praise,\'
their songs, chorused by the whole of the ama-
zons, relieved every now and then by parties of
dancing girls. The procession consisted of 6,500
people; in the court were, besides, about 2000
females round the king, and about 5000 males on
the opposite side, observers of the day\'s fête;
while, outside the palace, were the whole nation,\'
admirers of the magnificence of their sovereign!
Immediately outside the gate, was a huge wooden
model of an elephant, on wheels, caparisoned, and
bearing on its back, a howdah : this is the « car-

The articles of the royal weahh are the pro-
ceeds of the slave trade, and more than two thirds
of them British. It would be easy to estimate
their actual value; hut not the revenue of the
kingdom, as that fluctuates, dependent on the
annual slave hunt. The actual amount of money
displayed in cowries (the currency of the state)
was as near as possible 4500 dollars, or about
1000 pounds, sounding, in sterling money, hut a
small sum; yet, when it be considered that this
money is imported in 112 hogsheads, and consists
of 11,250,000 cowrie shells, it will appear dif-
ferently.

■ Tah-joh.
Mee-veh-doh.
Ah-kee-lee-vee.
Ignatio da Souza.
The ee-a-voo-gan (viceroy).
The mayo (minister).
The miegan (prime minister).
The king\'s sons.
The king\'s men.
Q

660 muskets - The king\'s brothers.
80 musketoons - The camboodee (treasurer).
40 bows and ar-
rows - E-jah-koh.
20 musk, grasscoats Zoh-poh.

During the greater part of the day his Majesty
was employed in throwing goods to his soldiers,
to the amount of 2000 dollars in value; besides

20 military officers received ten heads of cow-
ries * and one piece of white baft.

50 head men of towns ten heads of cowries,
four pieces of cloth, and one bottle of rum.

His Majesty sent ten heads of cowries (value
ten dollars) and two pieces of cloth, as presents
to Mr. Beecroft and myself.

50 ministers and cabooceers, one bag of cow-
ries (twelve dollars), one piece of white baft, and
one roll of tobacco.

The king presented a chief of Kangaroo with
one head of cowries, and one piece of cloth.

Succeeded by twelve liuman sacrifices, an alli-
gator, and a cat, given by the king to his people.

After the prostrations of the ministers and high
officers in a similar manner as described in May
30th, came the procession in single file, each
person carrying goods on the head in the foUow-
ing order :

40 cabooceers of the king\'s harem under um-
brellas, and preceded by two standards, followed
by a band of drums and tom-toms.

160 amazons in handsome country cloth tunics
and silver ornaments, white caps, and blue device.

11 girls in crimson robes playing on long-
mouthed instruments, like clarionets.

54 carrying red beads round their arms, and
several coral necklaces round their necks.

25 carrying beads round their arms, and several
blue necklaces round their necks.

17 carrying yellow beads round their arms,
and yellow necklaces round their necks.

10nbsp;carrying red beads round their arms, and
red coral necklaces round their necks; all these
in spotted red robes, and each carrying a bamboo
broom in her left hand.

38 In blue tunics, red caps, balancing muskets
by the muzzles, stocks in the air.

3nbsp;carrying large silver ornaments, one three
feet high (an ostrich with a real egg under each
wing). In robes of various colours.

11nbsp;composing a band, in tunics of country cloth.
6 carrying jars covered with cloth.

The above 1019 women marched by in single
file, all well dressed, and at close distances, with
the articles on their heads.

4nbsp;amazons, with long brass trumpets, surrounded
by 100 women in different coloured robes. Under
a red umbrella, unseen, one of the king\'s wives.

300 with dishes, and a basket in each.
55 carrying blue glass goblets.
50 carrying white glass goblets.

2nbsp;carrying large king\'s war-stools, covered with
crimson damask and silver, and ornamented with
human skulls, carried by twelve men.

12 (guard) armed with blunderbusses, in blue
and red country cloth tunics, white caps, blue
device.

To each of the following articles, carriages, amp;c.,
was a band of, on an average, 10.
20 guard.
2 banner-men.
2 carrying umbrellas.
Landau (English).
Large box on four wheels.
Rich bed, with crimson silk damask curtains.

1nbsp;man carrying umbrella, ornamented with
eighty human jaw-bones from the Eyeo war.

A green chariot (English),
20 followers,
20 dwarfs,
18 composing band.
16 guard.

20 composing band.
14 bearers.
Horse caparisoned.
16 carrying spears (guard).
An English chariot (yellow).
16 men.
20 guard.
20 guard.

All the above were well-dressed in tunics or
robes of every hue, and marched past in very
good order.

40 amazons, in crimson tunics and red caps,
that draw the carriages when the king rides.

3 war-stools covered with crimson and silver-
velvet cloth, ornamented with human skulls,
borne by seventeen.

Guard of 20 carrying blunderbusses and small
brass guns ; all dressed In red tunics and caps.

Highly carved gold and crimson chair.
Handsome small cabriolet, hned with crimson
silk.

Glass coach, Dahomey make.
English family-coach.
Blue and gold elegant sedan chair.
Guard 100.

Warrior on wheels, Dahomey make.
2 wooden mounted horsemen on wheels (Eng-
lish).

Sarcophagus on wheels.
In single file, with articles on their heads.
2 children.
1 head wife.
10 carrying ornaments.
16 carrying glass bottles.
16 carrying washing basins.
10 carrying basins, full of scarfs.
1 carrying a large silver ornament.
5 carrying basins heaped with small cowries.
14 carrying mahogany boxes and desks, with
cloths, silks, velvets, amp;c., on top.
1 carrying a red and gold vase.

6 ladies of the chamber dressed most magnifi-
cently in scarlet and gold tunics, slashed with
green silk and satin, with sashes and handker-
chiefs of silk, satin, and velvet of every colour;
coral and bead necklaces, silver ornaments and
wristbands : one wore a Charles XL\'s hat, covered
with gold lace and milk-white plumes; the other
five wore gilt helmets, with green and red plumes.
Each carried a high cane, surmounted with large
gold or silver beads. These ladies are called the
Pausee, and are of the principal wives; they
took their stand to the left of the tent, while
the guard formed round a tree in front, to gether
with many more amazons, and all sang the king\'s
praises. The scene now was purely theatrical;
the dresses beautiful; altogether about 1000

women under arms, in uniform, crimson, red,
and scarlet tunics, while the procession continued
to pass in front.

8 carrying silver ornaments.
4 carrying silver bottle-stands.
3 carrying silver baskets.

8 carrying glass ornaments and jar.
16 carrymg washing-jugs.
23 carrying French ornamented jugs.
16 carrying water coolers.
52 carrying chamber utensils, more useful than
ornamental.

Head bunseh\'s mother, In scarlet, wearing a
life-guardsman\'s helmet and plumes, and attended
by a lady In a Charles II.\'s hat and plumes, both
magnificently dressed.
8 Malam\'s wives.
Band 20.
Guard 100.
Band of 12.

60 Kato women dancing; one advances, dances,
and throws herself back into the arms of three
others, who receive her and replace her on her
legs; then another, amp;c.
Band of 8.

9 European umbrellas over the nine matrons
of the harem.
30 attendants.
Band of 20,
Guard 40,

4 carrying pans of skulls,
2 carrying jars surmounted with skulls,
1 carrying a large pan of skulls,

2nbsp;carrying umbrellas over the king\'s mother
and her attendant, in country cloth dresses and
slouched hats trimmed with gold.

2 carrying pans of skulls,
2 carrying jars of skulls,
1 carrying a banner and two umbrellas each.
King\'s grandmother in head-dress of silver,
crimson and silver robe and train, held by a
maiden bearing a gold-headed stick: the former
(the grandmother) sent us about half a pint of
rum.

30 women, in scarlet tunics and red caps, form
a circle round a band in front of the tent, and
dance very spiritedly; one of the amazons per-
forms a pas seul, screeching wildly. Six with
horses\' tails and spears with handkerchiefs on
them, dressed in blue tunics and high glazed caps,
dance a spear-dance before thirty attendants (in
front of the king\'s tent), who keep time with
their feet to the dance.

20 in blue tunics, red trousers, and red and
silver caps, dance a sword-dance, with naked
swords; the guard in red tunics join in the dance,
sing, howl, hold their muskets aloft, rattle their
rattles, and fall in round the tree.

12 amazons bring the muzzles of their muskets
and their heads together in a circle, howl, and
dance a musket-dance.

Names of the Mhmters and Officers of the Daho-
man Kingdom, who received the Royal Bounty
June 1th, 1849, with the Amount given to each.

A-hodi-see-boh-ee-nea
Ah-soli-gnon
Ah-doo-noo-ioon-too -
Ea-eh-hoo - - -
Toh-mah-tee
Gan-seh - - .
Ke-koo -
Boo-gee-loo-noo
Toh-far -
Ah-jah-hoh
Ah-veh-see-peh -
Boo-joh -
Boo-gee-toh-noo
Beh-neh - - _

Names of Ministers, Merchants, ^c., Receivers
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	REVIEW
No. in	Regiment.
20	muskets
200	do.
20	do.
50	do.
20	do.
80	do.
8	do.
22	do.
4	do.
14	do.
26	do.
6	do.
7	do.
40	do.
30	do.
50	do.
38	do.
41	do.
52	do.
22	do.
80	do.

36	do.
11	do.
320	do.
80	do.
240	do.
300	do.

Dolls. - 8	Ah-noo-loh-ko -	Dolls. quot; 2i
do.	Too-all	2 - do.
do.	Tan-soo-pah-sah	- do.
do.	Ah-re-deh-noo -	- do.
6	ISToh-de-ferej	- do.
do.	Ah-voh-tee-meh	- do
do.	Gar-gar	- do.
5	Kar-sol-noh	- do.
4	Koo-teh-see	- do.
do.	Sau-gau	- 4
do.	Boo-peh-ali-tee-teli	- 2
do.	Teh-peh-hoong -	- do.
2i	Ah-hoh-peli	- 2
do.	Ah-poh-nae-peh	- 3
do.	Ah-doo-boh-noo -	- 2
do.	So-soo-lonff o	- do.
do.	Tee-beh-na-boli	- do.
do.	A-poh-loli-gau -	- do.
do.	At-leen-deh-noo	- do.
do.	Ah-goo-doo	- do.
do.	Ali-ting-teh	■ do.
do.	Boo-gau -	• do.
do.	Tok-poh -	• do.

Dolls.		Dolls.
Boli-sah - - -	2	Gan-joh	- li
Joo-joh -	do.	Zaun-boo-dee -	- do.
Toh-sah-voh-loo-koh -	do.	Lah-oo-bah	- do.
A-goli-soo-toh-toli-lio-tar do.	Hoong-jae-noo -	- do.
A-doh-mali-holi -	do.	Wee-ah-dah	do
Hoo-ab-noo	do.	Ah-doong-on- dee	- do.
BohKon -	do.	Hoo-pah-wa	- do.
Boh-kar-soo-al -	If	Wee-an-deh	- do.
Ah-bah-ea-hoon	do.	Eh-kee-toh-beh-re	- do.
Boti-koh-da-dah -	do.	Doe-mae-noo	- do.
Ah-loh-poh	do.	Tah-oong -	- do.
Koh-soo-poo-leli	do.	Wae-soo-ma-kong	- do.
Sah-see - - -	do.	Tah-see	- do.
A-dong-see	do.	Mali-koon-doo -	- do.
Ah-hoo-loo-noli -	do.	Pah-heh-kee-lee	- do.
Sah-peh-dog-beh	do.	Beh-re-sar	- do.
Sah-peh-doo-hah-Iioong	do.	Soo-mah-jae	- do.
Ho-see . . -	do.	Ah-hung-ko-see -	- do.
A-ding-see-gan -	do.	Bossoo-peh	- do.
Chah-kah-teh -	do.	Tah-pah -	- do.
Beh-kola-clie-kali-teli -	do.	Wha-noo-meh -	- do.
Bah ... -	do.	Ah-koh-gewee -	- do.
Deh-jah - - .	do.	Be-quae-see	- do.
Jah-ah-noo	do.	Hoon-hah-jee	- do.
Hoh-goron	do.	Ah-dah-jee	- do.
Yoo-loh-koo	do.	Ah-dang-boh-zee	- do.
Boh-deh-vee clia-cha -	do.	Zah-kah-nee	- do.
Kee-cheh - - -	do.	Ali-poh-mae-see	- do.
Voh-doong-boo -	•do.	Ah-boh-loo-poh-noo-gan do.
Toh-koo-noo-veli-soo -	do.	Bah-doh-hoong -	- do.
A-jeh-voo-noo -	do.	Ah-poh-doh	- do.
Ah-dah-fong-koo	do.	Ah-holi-keh-soo	- do.
A-tee-Bee-see	do.	Voh-joh -	- do.
Ah-woh-teh	do.	Poh-liah -	- do.
Tah-see-sar	do.	Ah-gae-see-veli-gnon	do.
Ah-oh-see - - -	do.	Voh-doong	- do.

Hoo-soo-koh-joh	Dolls. 14	Dolls, and received each six
Ah-voli-lee-bee -	do.	heads, and a glass	of
Voh-doo-noo-ah-joh-noh do.	gin	- 36
Wee-moe-holi -	do.	Dossoo-eea-noo -	- 2
Begh-Iong-poh-soo	do.	Mr. Brown	- 4
Mee-bali-deh	do.	Madiki Lemon -	- do.
Ah-doh-neh-jeh	do.	Mee-koh-loh	- do.
Ah-loli-ah-noo -	do.	Hoo-tong-gee	- 2
Ploo-gaun	do.	Bah-joo-roo (Pedro)	- do.
Ah joh-bali	2	People from Dekkon	- 6
Noh-noh-Yoh	H	King\'s brother -	- do.
Boh-deli-tee	do.	Ah-bah-lah	- 2
Beh-kon-see	do.	Co-coo-san-tee -	- do.
Jar-ball - - ,	do.	Ambassador from Ashan-
Ah-jah-kah-lee -	do.	tee	- 6
Weh-sek-pah	do.	Ah-ma-see-peh-deh	- 2
Ah-vali-neb-noli	do.	Ah-gee-hah-beh	- do.
Goo-ah-nah	do.	Koh-sar-koo-Ieh-oo	- do.
Fae-neh - - -	do.	Go-ee-meh	- do.
Ali-foh-jah-noo-koh -	do.	Dossoo-keh	- do.
Dong-hoh-soo -	do.	Ah-boh-loo-too -	- do.
Ah-ah-veh	do.	Belong Kelong -	- do.
Ah-kee-jeli	do.	Doh-gae-loh-gee	- do.
Ali-qua-jee	do.	Ah-poh-toh	- do.
Ah-kah-tee	do.	Bah-toh-soh	- do.
Dosso-lae-qae -	do.	Boh-ko-che-ah-peh	- do.
Teh-nee - - .	do.	Ah-toh	- do.
Doh-sar-noo	do.	Ah-doh-noo	- do.
Ah-jar-see	do.	Doon-pwee	- do.
Boli-deng-see	do,	Lah-peh-kol	- do.
So-boh-see	do.	Ah-moo-soo	- do.
Ah-dah-re-see -	do.	Ee-ah-wee-nee -	- do.
At-teh-shee	do.	Eemocks -	- 3
The cha-cha, Domingo,		Doh-gah-boh-soo	■gt; do.
Ignatio, Antonio, and		Ah-mah-gee-peh-Ieh ■	■ 2
ourselyes, were called,		Pah-nee-gan\'s -	- do.

Dolls. Camboodee - - 6	Hoong-see-noo -	Dolls. - ^
15 votaries of Venus		Mee-ah-wee-pah	- do.
kissed the ground, and		2 of Souza\'s sons	- 5
threw dirt on their		14 liberated Africans	- 3
heads before the king.		14 liberated Africans	- do.
Too-noo-noo	4	Beh-gae-dee, king	of
Koao-peh - - -	do.	Mahee (tribute)	- do.
To-oo-poh	3	58 cabooceers	- 6
Zah-noo-gon	2	Ah-pu-loh-peh -	- 3
Ah-boh-gee-veh	do.	Do-mah-j oo-l oo-pae,
Joh-me-nah-soo\'veh -	do.	king of Pangweeah	- do.
Beh-dee - - .	do.	Poh-veh-soh\'s people	- do.
Koh-joh - - .	do.	Fool	- i
Leh-groo - - -	do.	Band	- 3
Gar-jah-noo-kong	do.	Crier	- 2
Ah-pah-dah	do.	Fools	- do.

Ee-a-voo-gan -	- 10 dolls.	3
Quaenung	- 10	3
Ah-joh-vee	- 10	3
Koli-jeh	- 10	3
Nar-vphey	- 10	3
Koh-doh-noo -	- 10	3

Toh-mah-tee (king\'s
brother)	10 dolls. 2
Cha-cha	10	3
Dossoo-ee-a-voo	5	3
Bah-hee-nee -	3	1
Camboodee	10	3
King\'s family -	10	3
Ah-mah-jee-peh-leh	10	0
Amazon Miegan	10	3
Poh-veh-soh (and sol-
diers) - - ~	6	15
Doh-loh-quae (and
soldiers)	3	20
Ee-gee-nee-kah	3	10
Goo-loo-noo (and sol-
diers)	3	0
Lee-dae-noo -	1	0
We-mah-hoo -	3	0
Ah-koh-Ioo	2	0
Char-lah-koo -	2	0
Meh-jah-koh-ee	2	0
Boo-noo-mar-seh	5	0
Koh-koh-ah-jee	3	5
Lee-fee-lee	1	7
Ah-koh-boh -	6	10
Gar-boh-tong -	1	30
Dossoo-gar	0	30