Dahomey, a negro kingdom of undefined limits, and under French protectorate, in W. Africa, N. of the Slave Coast; the religious rites of the natives are sanguinary, they offer human victims in sacrifice; is an agricultural country, yields palm-oil and gold dust, and once a great centre of the slave-trade.
Population (circa 1900) given as 150,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dahna Desert * Daïri