| Show NOT A DAHOMEY MAN aid it was very looky for him effit Us W not choury the victims sacrificed at the death ofa ka log in dahomey are often captives or criminals ani are become his servants in nother world those killed at intervals afterward are supposed pup posed to be to him from this world their dispatch is considered by each successive king of dahomey to be incumbent upon him as a matter of duty alike to bis father to the state and to the gods walks about among the messengers delivers to them his messages mee sages and talks amicably to each cd them upon the subject as an authentic anecdote inimitable in its bomor told me by tetteh will one day in going big rou ado the king came toa remarkably fine looking man it native of the yoruba country sod said to him well on have got to go tell my father am getting along pretty well and am governing the peo P I 1 a as h c would wish me to do yes aa i d the man 1 I have got to g 01 but I 1 want you to tell me one thing fira what is that asked the king 1 I want to tell you 1 plied the loan that I 1 will not de liver your message not deliver dinv inv message exclaimed the king no I 1 will lot why 71 asked his majesty first replied the victim because I 1 don t want to go and I 1 dont ace why I 1 should deliver it for you and secondly because I 1 am a yoruba man and he is of dahomey and the yoruba people do not tee or to the dahomey people here nor do they up there therefore I 1 neit herc an will deliver your met sage the king looked astonished and turning to the executioner who was ready to begin his bloody work and capatch the messenger if not the message sim ly said he is a bad wesse riger send him and the man was lu go scot free rather a dangerous precedent one would think under suchil circumstances for the future |
