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Dahomey: see Benin Benin (bĕnēn`), officially Republic of Benin, republic (2005 est. pop. ..... Click the link for more information. , republic. |
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And the actual direction of the wind was driving him along to the kingdom of Dahomey, among the most savage races, and into the power of a ruler who was in the habit of sacrificing thousands of human victims at his public orgies. She would have been queen in her own land--and it meant just as much to the cave woman to be a queen in the Stone Age as it does to the woman of today to be a queen now; it's all comparative glory any way you look at it, and if there were only half-naked savages on the outer crust today, you'd find that it would be considerable glory to be the wife a Dahomey chief. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. |
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Dahomey
