Excerpt from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 20: April, 1844
The king of Dahomi is a man of fine personal appearance, about six feet high, and rather stout, but not at all corpulent. His countenance is open and manly and he appears to be of a very mild and pacific disposi tion.'
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