Africa and its inhabitants . ey [Aghomeij), capitalof Dahomey, a City within anenclosure, as the name signifies,with monumental gates, deepditches, and a thick-set wall ofthorny trees. Abomey covers anextensive area, but most of theenclosed space consists of gardensand ruins, while the aggregate ofhuts formerly known as the Kingspalace had a circumference of twomiles. The waU of this residencewas stuck all round with human heads or skulls, eloquent witnesses of the royalpower. But even before the French occupation, the butcheries required by theperiodical customs had ceased, and when the conqu
Africa and its inhabitants . ey [Aghomeij), capitalof Dahomey, a City within anenclosure, as the name signifies,with monumental gates, deepditches, and a thick-set wall ofthorny trees. Abomey covers anextensive area, but most of theenclosed space consists of gardensand ruins, while the aggregate ofhuts formerly known as the Kingspalace had a circumference of twomiles. The waU of this residencewas stuck all round with human heads or skulls, eloquent witnesses of the royalpower. But even before the French occupation, the butcheries required by theperiodical customs had ceased, and when the conquerors entered the place nothingwas to be seen except the iron spikes on which once stood the hideous trophies. The population of Abomey varies with the migrations of the court between theofficial capital and Kana (formerly Kana-Mina, or Cabnina), a summer residencelying in a fever-stricken depression between the hills, and resembling a ruraldistrict dotted over with houses, rather than a city in the proper sense of the East of Greenwich 950- 0 to 160Feet. Depths 160 to 640 Feet. 640 Feet andupwards. 120 MUes.
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