A Mission to Gelele
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A Mission to Gelele

And the Amazon Warriors of Dahomey

  1. 736 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

A Mission to Gelele

And the Amazon Warriors of Dahomey

About this book

"A Mission to Gelele", the former King of Dahomey, which has taken place in the 1860s, describes with minuteness the rituals of Dahomeyan "customs, " of which, before Captain Burton's visit, tales had been spread mixed with wild exaggerations. Written in Burton's lively style, it shows his powers of observation and description, as well as his cynical disposition and sometimes indelicacy of expression. The ethnology and philology of the country are carefully treated, and there is an important chapter on the Amazons, an all-female military regiment of the Kingdom, which describes the ferocity of these women and makes an excellent companion to the upcoming movie "The Woman King." Captain Burton clearly foretold the gradual but sure deterioration of Dahomey, consequent on the "custom" of periodical slaughter and of an Amazonian soldiery, which by limiting reproduction caused both weakness in the country and degeneracy in its inhabitants. The continuance of these causes has led to the easy breaking up of the Kingdom by the French. This edition comes with more than 600 footnotes for an even better understanding of the text.

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Information

Publisher
Jazzybee Verlag
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9783849662431
Topic
History
Subtopic
African History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE TO THE MEMORIAL EDITION
  2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST (1864) EDITION
  3. CHAPTER I. I FALL IN LOVE WITH FERNANDO PO.
  4. CHAPTER II. I DO NOT BECOME „FAST FRIENDS” WITH LAGOS.
  5. CHAPTER III. WE ENTER WHYDAH IN STATE.
  6. CHAPTER IV. A WALK ROUND WHYDAH.
  7. CHAPTER V. FROM WHYDAH TO ALLADÁ, THE HALF-WAY HOUSE.
  8. CHAPTER VI. FROM ALLADA TO AGRIME.
  9. CHAPTER VII. SMALL RECEPTION AT AGRIME, AND ARRIVAL AT KANA, THE KING’S COUNTRY QUARTERS.
  10. CHAPTER VIII. THE PROCESSION.
  11. CHAPTER IX. THE RECEPTION
  12. CHAPTER X. THE MARCH TO AGBOME.
  13. CHAPTER XI. THE KING ENTERS HIS CAPITAL.
  14. CHAPTER XII. THE PRESENTS ARE DELIVERED.
  15. CHAPTER XIII. OF THE GRAND CUSTOMS AND THE ANNUAL CUSTOMS GENERALLY.
  16. CHAPTER XIV. THE KING’S „SO-SIN CUSTOM.”
  17. CHAPTER XV. OF THE SO-CALLED AMAZONS AND THE DAHOMAN ARMY.
  18. CHAPTER XVI. ADDO-KPON, THE BUSH KING’s SO-SIN CUSTOMS.
  19. CHAPTER XVII. OF THE DAHOMAN RELIGION.
  20. CHAPTER XVIII. THE SIN-KWAIN, [dviii] OR WATER-SPRINKLING CUSTOM.
  21. CHAPTER XIX. OF THE NEGRO’S PLACE IN NATURE.“
  22. CHAPTER XX. THE DAY OF TRIUMPH.
  23. CHAPTER XXI. DAHOMEY AND HER CAPITAL.
  24. CHAPTER XXII. THE FIRING TO WHYDAH, AND CONCLUSION OF THE CUSTOMS. [dxcv]
  25. CHAPTER XXIII. THE DELIVERY OF THE MESSAGE.
  26. CHAPTER XXIV. RETURN TO THE SEABOARD.
  27. CONCLUSION.
  28. APPENDIX I.