Note 140 — Chapter XVII
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There are in Dahome no hereditary or heraldic surnames and sire-names like those of Europe. All are personal and significant; they are mostly given by the King, who often renews them. So in 2 Kings, xxiii. 34, Pharaoh-nechoh turned the name of Eliakim, son of Josiah, to Jehoiakim. And lately, Napoleon I. made all his vassal brethren assume his first as the dynastic name.