Note 131 — Chapter XVII
Reading edition
In the Dahoman vocabulary by Commander Forbes our “small-pox” is translated Akpotin kpe-vi, and explained in a foot-note, “A poh tee peh vee; literally, small a poh tee.” But Akpotin, in the Whydah dialect is a box, not a pox—hence the mistake, which is but one in a thousand made in that vocabulary.