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A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (Paperback)
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A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies, Volume 2
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Sir Richard Burton (1821 1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began
his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed
his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different
languages and dialects. He turned to writing books in the 1850s
and, over the remaining forty years of his life, published dozens
of works and more than one hundred articles. He spent part of his
career as British consul in Fernando Po (present-day Equatorial
Guinea) in West Africa, and used this as an opportunity to explore
the region. In 1861, he was sent on a mission, recounted in this
two-volume work of 1864, to Dahomey (present-day Benin) to urge the
king to put a stop to the local slave trade. In Volume 2 Burton
discusses the human sacrifices that were taking place while he was
there, and the negotiations with the king about slavery.
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