Gregapojee--Extensive Market at--Native Produce and European Manufactures--Popoe Beads, their Value; probable Origin of--Houses-- Situation and Soil of Gregapojee--Fish--Alligators--Population--Return to Ahguay, and thence to Whydah--Toll-house--Fish-trap--Travelling Canoe--Beautiful Scenery of the Lagoon--Oysters growing to Trees--Old Ferryman--Gibbets of three Criminals--Murder committed by them--The English Fort at Whydah--Character of M. de Suza--Treatment of Slaves--Hints with reference to this odious Traffic--Price of Slaves--Slave Hunts--Necessity for Education--Cruelty in the Shipment of Slaves--Visit to Avoga--Account of him--Reception by him--Mode of Riding--Bad Road--Reason for not Repairing it--Market at Whydah--Native Manufactures, &c.--Duties imposed by the King of Dahomey--His Enormous Revenue--Head Money--System of Government--Severe Laws, and their Result--Paganism--Abject Superstition of the Natives--Dangerous to show Contempt for their Fetish--Anniversary Offerings for departed Friends--Usual Termination of such Festivals--Snake Worship--Houses built to contain them--The Snake-Lizard--The Field-Lizard--The House-Lizard--Vampire Bats CHAPTER VII. 132 Locusts--The Winged Ant--Its Destructive Nature--Horse attacked by them--Their Ingenuity in Building--Stock--Great Want of Mechanics--Portuguese Whydah--Emigrants from Sierra Leone--Their Deplorable Condition--English at the Fort of Whydah--Military Resources of Dahomey--Polygamy--Mode of Shipping Slaves--Brutality on these occasions--Porto Sogoora--Mr. Lawson’s Slaves--Greejee--Toll imposed there--Zahlivay--Yakasgo-- Badaguay--The Cabbage Palm-tree--Wooded Scenery--The Palm-tree--Exploring Visit to the Haho--Misfortunes of Ithay Botho, Capt. Clapperton’s Servant--Adventures--Curiosity of the Natives--Podefo and its Market--Alligators--My Crew mutiny from fear--Hippopotami--Superstition of the Natives--A party of Fishermen, and their Fish-traps--Base Conduct of the Fishermen--My Punishment of them and my Crew CHAPTER VIII. 164