A LITTLE DODGE OF A DAHOMEY CHIEF.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 121, 3 April 1895, Page 3

A LITTLE DODGE OF A DAHOMEY CHIEF.

Tho African Steamship Coy's steamer Dahomey, which arrived at Liverpool lately, brought news of the execution of the chief Logan, ono of the Nana's big men. Logan was brought _ down to Benin for trial, one of the indictments being that he had killed eight slaves under tho most shocking circumstances. It seems that when Nana and his chiefs learned that tho English were taking steps against them the eight slaves were beheaded, their bodies being placed in water until such time as their baro skin could be peeled off. The bodies then had the appearance of being those of white men and they were shown to the people, who wero told that that was the way Nana and his chiefs intended to sorve the English, and were made to believe the bodies wero those of whito men. Logan was found guilty and executed at Biohemie by a firing party sent up there, Tho Dahomey arrived at Grand Bassam on the 19th of November, and there leai.ied of the serious defeat of a body of French troops, many of whom wero and wounded. Grand Basam is the principfl port of the French Ivory coast, and two expeditions were going into tho interior, one to Kong and the other against a powerfi' chief behind Grand Bassam.