Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration, Volumen 1Tinsley Brothers, 1863 - 306 páginas |
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Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration Richard Francis Burton Vista previa restringida - 2011 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abeokuta Afunja Agbameya Akpesi Alake amongst appears Arab Badagry bank beads Benin Bowen bush called Camaroons canoes Captain chief Christian civilized clay cloth coast colour Commander Bedingfield cotton cowries Crowther Dahoman Dahome declare east Eastern Africa Egba-land Egbas Egugun England English European exportation feet Fula gate ground hand Hausa head Hindu honour human hundred Ibadan Ijaye Ijebu Iketu Ikoradu Ilori Indian Kafirs Kakanda king Krumen Kwara labour Lagos land late latter maize miles Moslem Mungo Park native negro Niger Nupe Ogboni Ogboni lodges Ogun River Olorun Olumo Orisha palaver palm palm oil polygamy Porto Novo present race rain sent Shango Shodeke showed Sierra Leone sionaries slave staple strings tall thousand tion town travellers tree tribe usual verandah visited walls West African whilst women word worship Yoruba Proper
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Página 219 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Página 122 - It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stol'n our jewel.
Página 104 - There was a vast variety of tattoos and orna' mentation, rendering them a serious difficulty to ' strangers. The skin patterns were of every variety, ' from the diminutive prick to the great gash and the ' large boil-like lumps. They affected various figures — ' tortoises, alligators, and the favourite lizard, stars, ' concentric circles, lozenges, right lines, welts, gouts of ' gore, marble or button-like knobs of flesh, and ele...
Página 178 - To tell them, the gravest of them, that there was a Creator, the Governor of the heavens and earth, — of the fall of man, or the redemption of the world, the resurrection of the dead, and immortality beyond the grave, was to tell them what appeared to be more fabulous, extravagant, and ludicrous than their own vain stories about lions, hyenas, and jackals. To tell them that these...
Página 268 - That the King and Chiefs, on their part, agree to grant and assign unto the said Commissioners, on behalf of the African race in America, the right and privilege of settling in common with the Egba people, on any part of the territory belonging to Abeokuta, not otherwise occupied.
Página 106 - He inherits, at his father's death, all his slaves, and has the absolute controul over the wives and children which he has left behind him. Before attaining the age of manhood, his forehead is scarified, and the skin brought down from the hair to the eye-brows, so as to form a line of indurated skin from one temple to the other. This peculiar mark is distinctive of his rank, the ordinary mark of the Heebo being formed by. numerous perpendicular incisions on each temple, as if the operation of cupping...
Página 268 - That the laws of the Egba people shall be strictly respected by the settlers ; and, in all matters in which both parties are concerned, an equal number of commissioners, mutually agreed upon, shall be appointed, who shall have power to settle such matters.
Página 218 - I see nothing so strong against polygamy as to balance the great and visible imminent hazards that hang over so many thousands, if it be not allowed.
Página 105 - The chief are as follows:—The distinguishing mark of the Egbas is a gridiron of three cuts, or a multiplication of three, on each cheek. Free-born women have one, two, or three raised lines, thread-like scars, from the wrist up the back of the arm, and down the dorsal region, like long necklaces. They call these