FOOTNOTES:
[8] Commander-in-chief of the militia.
[9] After proceeding some distance into the interior the cowrie increases in value.
[10] Matcholee, one of the principal men of Whagba, was selected as one of the most intelligent men in the Mahee country, and summoned to Abomey to be my guide through that country.
[11] Dababab is, as I have already mentioned, a sort of dumpling, made without fat, composed of the meal of the Indian corn.