This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1863. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. TOUCHING MATTERS RELIGIOUS AT ABEOKUTA. ' The rains had not yet ended, and the mornings were damp and misty, whilst a worse than English fog moved for hours after sunrise through the cloudy air. Captain Parry found the heat uncomfortable at 23° (Fah.) above zero ; the Abeokutans shuddered with cold when the mercury showed 65°. On such a morning, accompanied by the boy Olufanobbi, alias Robert Fisher, Egba, Ogbone, Christian convert, and printer's devil in the Church Missionary establishment at the salary of four dollars per mensem,, I sallied forth to inspect the father of the settlement, the Rock Olunio. Our route lay to the west, with a little northing, along a rough road, and the town was at this hour one vast latrine. The perfume from the bush must not be described. The men, and even the women, again showed a wonderful absence of all that with us goes by the name of decorum. As on the Gold Coast, the sable fair ones bathe publicly in purissimis* There is not a public woman in the town, which some, as forgotten Mandeville, say speaks well, and others badly, for private morality; and Mr. Bowen only met one bastard. As in Ashanti, here, even in the highest ranks, that form of the social evil known to civilization, especially trans-Atlantic, as the ' panel dodge,' is said to be sometimes practised. The wives of the highest chiefs will bring on intrigues with young men, and betray them to the husbands, who either get their money or sell them. In shaking hands, the emphatic gesture is to touch the lady's palm with the dexter index; but the amourist risks, if unlucky enough to displease, a seat upon the stool of repentance, and an expose to public ridicule. The wells lying by the paths were shallow pits; rain-water arrested by tenacio...
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Stationed as consul on the West African outpost of Fernando Po (modern-day Equatorial Guinea), the British adventurer Richard Burton (1821-1890) decided to explore the area, which he wrote about in this two-volume work, published in 1863. In Volume 2 Burton describes his ascent of Mount Cameroon.
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