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Show SPAT BLOOD. .., Base on the Vest Coast of 'Africa at War With France. E LAND OF DAHOMEY. gcharz Looks -Searle's Im-3!erunetal-No Protection Against Fire. ff',hiic of France is at war with ' , L, that a battle has been Jh'icli cieht combatants were 'Vit wounded. Later on "dmi" , - l.o had succeeded in number of Frenchmen and ns made another attack, 31" repulsed with a loss of trMtinefaet in the dispalclt lay T, e": "Among the dead were id the female warriors of tha Somey." Who are these am- lier,n0Wfur the fifth time at a European nation, is a king- Western Africa, in Uuinea, us ,;,, inwactlv defined, but with ntdareaof 4,000 square mile Us are pagans and the tiger principal fetish. They are blood lot hospitable and courageous. KB the monarch, whose people h him by crawling with their ,l dust, sprinkles his ancestors (itl, human blood. There is an stival which takes place about and lasts several weeks. Dur-sturnalia Dur-sturnalia many human, victims lo death with great barbarity. m of these "customs' the un-wretches, un-wretches, chiefly captives taken an dressed in white shirts and itu nightcaps and tied on baskets. Etlien taken to the top of a high ,ad paraded on the heads of i together with an alligator, a a hawk in similar baskets. After ; has made a speech the victims ed down in the midst of a surg-rd surg-rd ot natives, and meet with a death. The skulls are used to he palace walls, and the king's chamber is paved with the ' his enemies. The skulls of the ed kings are converted into royal ; cups. ; one-fourth of the females are married to the fetish, many lore their birth. mazons form the flower of the They are marshaled into regi-?ach regi-?ach with its distinctive uniform Iges, and they take the post of ntho flanks of the battle line, umber has been variously estini-from estini-from one to 6ix thousand. Their s are blunder busses, flint niusk-I niusk-I bows ami arrows. They are in :ruited tu a remarkable manner, man in Dahomey is found to be ful to her husband she is at once milit'ipir l-iouflnllurt-m-Q nnH 6n. uuong the aiuazons. If she has temper, or fails to bear child--if her husband wants lo get rid lie honors himself by presenting lie king, who, if she lias the re-physical re-physical qualifications, turns her his urniy officers to be drilled as zon. , arrisnn of Agliome, the king's is composed almost exclusively izons. A recent visitor to the says there were only thirty male iu the garrison. The amazons trained to (ill the peaceful role t Kil ls. One of the big slght3 of y i3 to see the amazons on gala ntically brandishing their weap-piiug weap-piiug their war cries and going their dances liefore the King, aid that at the death of the king scene ensues. The wives, after t extravagant demonstrations of tack and murder each other, and in an uproar until order is re-'T re-'T tne ne'v sovereign. |