# Stirring scenes in savage lands

Author: Greenwood, James, 1832-1929

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71512

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Stirring+scenes+in+savage+lands+Greenwood&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

CHAP. XVII.--The savage considered as a child of nature--what he lives for--kings by birth--a king to be wished dead--Commander Forbes’ introduction to the King of Dahomey--formalities to be observed on approaching Dahoman royalty--the palace hedged in with human skulls--a saltatory welcome--Gezo king of kings--his majesty “stands a drain”--grand display of rum and gunpowder--the ceremony of Eh-bah-tong-ah-bah, or exhibition of the king’s wealth--the red pool at the threshold--Dahoman “half-heads”--King Gezo the “leopard” and the “hawk”--items of his majesty’s wealth--“One washing pan, seven pans of skulls, and a grandmother”--an umbrella ornamented with eighty jaw bones--the probable val...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/21/index.md)
- [PART XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stirring-scenes-in-savage-lands-71512/chapters/15/index.md)