Excerpt from Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notices of the So Called "Amazons," the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature The History of Dahomy, published nearly three fourths of a century we are told that the short interval from Whydah beach to Abomey is perhaps the most beaten track, by Europeans, Of any in Africa. The Author thereupon proceeds to Show a difference of 104 miles between the maximum and minimum estimates of the distance, which is nearly doubled by the most correct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.