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1874. With a Full Account of the Notorious Annual Customs and the Social and Religious Institutions of the Ffons, also an Appendix on Ashantee and a glossary of Dahoman words and titles. The account of the eight months Skertchly, a British entomologist, spent in Dahomey. Contents: Arrival in Dahomey, An Excursion Near Whydah, The Whydah Lions, Journey to the Capital, Reception at Kana, Journey to Abomey, The Amazonian Salute, The So-Sin Custom...

Excerpt from Dahomey as It Is: Being a Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in That CountryDahomey, however, I was unable to follow up my design, but was condemned to be the recipient of savage honours and to sit an unwilling spectator of the notorious Annual Customs of the country, my feelings being grievously harassed by the thought that I had discovered one of the richest localities in Western Africa, while the polite imprisonment, as it we...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1874. With a Full Account of the Notorious Annual Customs and the Social and Religious Institutions of the Ffons, also an Appendix on Ashantee and a glossary of Dahoman words and titles. The account of the eight months Skertchly, a British entomologist, spent in Dahomey. Contents: Arrival in Dahomey, An Excursion Near Whydah, The Whydah Lions, Journey to the Capital, Reception at Kana, Journey to Abomey, The Amazonian Sal...

Excerpt from Dahomey as It Is: Being a Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in That Country Hence my entomological labours resulted in almost nil, in spite of repeated and earnest solicitations to Gelelé for permission to collect in the environs of Abomey at least. I endeavoured to console myself with the thought that I should be able to get a thorough knowledge of the Dahoman people, but I would much rather have remained ignorant of the Ffon...

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