Chapter I: Front Matter

The Memorial Edition
OF THE
WORKS
OF
CAPTAIN
SIR RICHARD F. BURTON,
_K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., &c., &c., &c._

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VOLUME IV.

A MISSION
TO
GELELE, KING OF DAHOME.

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_IN TWO VOLUMES._

VOLUME II.

A MISSION
TO
GELELE, KING OF DAHOME

WITH NOTICES OF
THE SO-CALLED “AMAZONS,” THE GRAND CUSTOMS,
THE YEARLY CUSTOMS, THE HUMAN SACRIFICES,
THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SLAVE TRADE,
AND
THE NEGRO’S PLACE IN NATURE.

BY
CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD F. BURTON,
K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., &c., &c., &c.
(LATE COMMISSIONER TO DAHOME,)
AUTHOR OF “A PILGRIMAGE TO AL-MADINAH AND MECCAH.”

EDITED BY HIS WIFE,
ISABEL BURTON.

“If a man be ambitious to improve in knowledge and wisdom, he should travel into foreign countries.”—PHILOSTRATUS IN APOLL.

“Every kingdom, every province, should have its own monographer.”—GILBERT WHITE.

Memorial Edition.

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IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

LONDON:
TYLSTON AND EDWARDS.
MDCCCXCIII.
_(All rights reserved.)_

Printed for the Publishers at
THE MECCAN PRESS,
3, Soho Square, London, W.

CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

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CHAPTER. PAGE.

XIV.—The King’s “So-sin Custom”—(_Continued_)

Section C. 1

Section D. 6

Section E. 12

Section F. 18

XV.—Of the so-called Amazons and the Dahoman Army 42

XVI.—Addo-kpon, the Bush King’s So-sin Customs

Section A. 58

Section B. 59

Section C. 62