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A Mission to Gelele the former King of Dahomey which has taken place in the 1860s describes with minuteness the rituals of Dahomeyan customs of which before Captain Burtons visit tales had been spread mixed with wild exaggerations Written in Burtons lively style it shows his powers of observation and description as well as his cynical disposition and sometimes indelicacy of expression The ethnology and philology of the country are carefully treat...Seguir leyendo