Note 66 — HASAN OF BASSORAH.[5]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
i.e. the 25,000 Amazons who in the Bresl. Edit. (ii. 308) are all made to be the King’s “Banát” = daughters or protégées. The Amazons of Dahome (see my “Mission”) who may now number 5,000 are all officially wives of the King and are called by the lieges “our mothers.”