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CHAPTER IV.

The Amazons—Trying Drill—System of Espionage—The Annual Customs—Human Sacrifices—The Dahoman Repulse at Abbeokuta—Natural Features of Dahomey—Agriculture—The Whydah Bunting 54

CHAPTER V.

Lagos—Small Change—A Ball—A Cheerful Companion—An Anomalous Sight—History of the Settlement—The Naval Attack of 1851 73

CHAPTER VI.

Leeches—Ikorudu—A Blue-blood Negro—Badagry—Flying Foxes—Fetishes—A Smuggler entrapped—Floating Islands—Porto Novo—Thirsty Gods—Cruel Kindness 95

CHAPTER VII.

The Niger Delta—Gloomy Region—Cannibals—King Pepple—Bonny-town—Rival Chiefs—Dignitaries of the Church—Missions—Curlews—A Night Adventure—A Bonny Bonne Bouche 111

CHAPTER VIII.

Old Calabar—Duke Town—Capital Punishments—Moistening the Ancestral Clay—A surgeon's Liabilities—Man-eaters—A Mongrel Consul—Curious Judgments 131

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