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ACCOUNT OF THE LATE HOSTILE

WEST CO.-i.S • OF AFRICA.

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WEST CO.-i.S • OF AFRICA. (From Capt. Tuckey's Maritime Geography.) The coast between the Volta and Benin is subject to the powerful and barbarous King of Dahomey, whose body guard is composed of 800 women, armed with muskets, bows, and arrows; whose chief officers approach him crawling on their bellies, and licking the dust of the ground the avenues to whose palace are paved with human skulls, and its walls in crusted with the jaw bones of his massacred subjecls; and who, oil day. of ceremony sprinkle the graves of his ancestors with hu- man gore, while fifty corpses, and as many head! stuck on p„|es, are p|aced round lh> royal sel)ulclire;-the wives of the deceased King mutually kill each other, until the new Monarch orders the massacre to cease and the people, more ferocious than tygers, in the midst of noisy rejoicing, tear the victims to pieces, for the mere pleasure of doing so, and without even the excuse of feasting on the flesh, for they are not cannibals. 44 The negroes of Benin are nearly as barbar- ous as the Dahomeys. Their King, who can bring 100,000 fighting men to the field, is worshipped as a demi god, is supposed to live without food, and when lie appears to die, is thought, like the Grand Lama, to revive un- b der another form. Here human victims are sacrificed to the evil principle; and in their L o.J. I feasts the King and Nobles dip I heir otd! necklaces in the blood of the victims, and pr y to the Gods that they may never be deprived I of this mark of pre emiueuce. The nations between Benin and Loango j are little known. A se, aid inbe ol Biaffers I inhabit the banks of the Formosa, aud arc said to sacrifice their child'en to the Devil.— I To them succeed tiie Colbongas, occupying the country through which runs the Rio del Rey and San Benito; they are painted as tha I least civiiised of iiie noked, apd selling their children and relation* I as slaves." -.g

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