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1st Division 2nd Division Admiral advance Agagi Alecto ambush path arrived attack Author avenue Awoko Barrosa BENIN CITY Benin River Book boxes Brass burn bush path camp Captain Campbell Captain Gallwey Carrier Column Ceri Chief clear cloth College Colonel Hamilton colour Company Houssas Cross Roads Crown 8vo crucifixion crucifixion tree Demy 8vo Diana Tempest DOUGLAS FAWCETT enemy English expedition fighting firing flank Forcados force full-page Illustrations Fully illustrated George Benin guns Gwato handsomely bound Ikpoba Jakri Jamieson River Juju kettle King KIRK MUNROE large crown 8vo Lieutenant LLOYD MORGAN main column Malacca Benin Marine Battalion Maxim Midshipman miles native night numerous Illustrations officers Ologbo Philomel Protectorate provisions REYNOLDS HOLE rocket-tube rockets sacrifice Sapele Sapobar scouts Second Edition sent ships shot Small 8vo Staff stockade Surgeon Theseus tins town Ugugu village volleys W. G. COLLINGWOOD Warrigi wounded ΙΟ
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Page 86 - ... Siberian frontier. PORT ARTHUR. — Port Arthur, now prominent in public attention, stands in the southeastern extremity of the Liau-tung peninsula, just outside the southern limit of winter ice, this immunity being one of its most valuable features. The harbour is an oval inlet of the sea, two miles long from east to west and a mile from north to south; it is surrounded by hills of varying elevation, and its sole entrance is on the southern side by a narrow channel, guarded at the southwestern...
Page 88 - Benin in my mind," says Commander Bacon, " is its smells. Crucifixions, human sacrifices, and every other horror the eye could get accustomed to, to a large extent, but the smells no white man's internal economy could stand. Four times in one day I was practically sick from them, and many more times on the point of being so. Every person who was able, I should say, indulged in a human sacrifice, and those who could not sacrificed some animal and left the remains in front of his house. After a day...
Page 87 - ... run well back into the bush, and form quite a large village of themselves ; they belonged to a general called Ochudi, and the village was known as Ochudi's compound. Houses then struggled on, on the left side, till high red-clay walls are encountered, with a galvanized iron roof sloping outwards form the northern wall. This is the main entrance to the king's compound. In this compound or village are the ju-ju compounds, palava house, king's house, and many houses for the king's immediate followers...