. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Chap. 7- Coafts of South-Guinea. 37? tilings to maiT-ain her; and fcltlom or never any man offers to marry women (o di- vorced : but they commonly retire to ano- ther place, remote from their , and there pafs for widows, and thus may chance to get hufbands again -, or if they mifs of their aim tha
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Chap. 7- Coafts of South-Guinea. 37? tilings to maiT-ain her; and fcltlom or never any man offers to marry women (o di- vorced : but they commonly retire to ano- ther place, remote from their , and there pafs for widows, and thus may chance to get hufbands again -, or if they mifs of their aim that way, they commonly fet up for publick harlots, to get a livelihood. The feverity of the law in Benin againfl: adultery, among all the orders of people, deters them from venturing i fo that it is but vtry feldom any perfons arc puniflied for that crime. ,âj., The moft ufual way of executing perfons ,.,.imi- judicially fentenccd to death for fome capital "" crime, as murder, isc. is to bind the crimi- nal's hands to his back, to cover his eyes with a piece of ftuft' or linen, and fo put him into the hands of the publick execu- tioner, who caufes him to lift up his arms ab high, and to Hoop down his head as low as he can pofTible â¢, and thus, chops off his jicad very dexteroufly: which clone, he qijartirs thebody,and throws it on the dung- hil, expol'ed to the ravenous bealts, and ef- pccially to a fort of large birds of prey, which love carrion, and are fo much re- garded by the natives of Benin, that they not only carefully avoid hurting them, but on the contrary, conltantly lay down pro- vilions for them in places appointed for that piirpole. ,,,.. fj, If the king's fon murders a man wilfully, ,'"-i-tl thev lead him under a Itrong guard to the frontiers, and there put the lentence in exe- cution, in the fame manner as above recited j for there being no more heard of him, it is more probable, that they At him there to death, than to think, as the commonalty
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