THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
From the Gold Coast we learn that the Dahomians are feeling the blockade severely, and have placed stakes round a great fetish tree, and swear to fix on them the heads of the European prisoners at the first attack made upon them. A Portuguese merchant had been stripped, flogged, and carried off to Abomey, for saying the King should pay the fine, and seven Natwes had been shot by the King's orders for talking about a pal iver with the commodore. The inhabitants of Whydah havo petitioned the commodore for protection, but it is not likely that anything will be done for some weeks, as the new commodore (Captain Sullivan) has been ordered to proceed direct to the Cape to relieve Sir William Hewitt.
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Evening Star, Issue 4361, 19 February 1877, Page 3
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129THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. Evening Star, Issue 4361, 19 February 1877, Page 3
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