A MISSION TO GELELE, KING OF DAHOME
Reading edition
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.
IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I.
LONDON: TYLSTON AND EDWARDS. MDCCCXCIII. (All rights reserved.)
Printed for the Publishers at The Meccan Press, 3, Soho Square, London, W.