A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome 2 Volume Set
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome 2 Volume Set
Richard Burton
May 2011
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Multiple copy pack
9781108030335
$93.99
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2 Paperback books
Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different languages and dialects. He turned to writing books in the 1850s and, over the remaining forty years of his life, published dozens of works and more than one hundred articles. He spent part of his career as British consul in Fernando Po (present-day Equatorial Guinea) in West Africa, and used this as an opportunity to explore the region. In 1861, he was sent on a mission, recounted in this two-volume work of 1864, to Dahomey (present-day Benin) to urge the king to put a stop to the local slave trade.
Product details
May 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108030335
830 pages
324 × 250 × 70 mm
1.3kg
2 b/w illus.
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. I fall in love with Fernando Po
- 2. I do not become 'fast friends' with Lagos
- 3. We enter Whydah in state
- 4. A walk round Whydah
- 5. From Whydah to Alladâ, the half-way house
- 6. From Alladâ to Agrime
- 7. Small reception at Agrime, and arrival at Kana, the King's country quarters
- 8. The procession
- 9. The reception
- 10. The march to Agbome
- 11. The King enters his capital
- 12. The presents are delivered
- 13. Of the grand customs and the annual customs generally
- 14. The King's 'So-sin custom'. Volume 2:
- 14 continued. The King's 'So-sin custom'
- 15. Of the so-called Amazons and the Dahoman army
- 16. Addo-kpon, the Bush King's So-sin customs
- 17. Of the Dahoman religion
- 18. The Sin-Kwain, or water-sprinkling custom
- 19. Of 'The negro's place in nature'
- 20. The Y of triumph
- 21. Dahome and her capital
- 22. The firing to Whydah, and conclusion of the customs
- 23. The delivery of the message
- 24. Return to the seaboard
- Conclusion
- Appendices.
