The King of Dahomey’s Amazon
Guards. —Attached to the King of Daho
mey’s army, there is a troop calle 1 “The
Amazon Guards.” The West African
Herald thus describes them: The Amazon
Guards, as they have sometimes been sy|ed
are the most extraordinary troops that wc
ha\e C'er heard or read of, They are
3,000 in number, all females, and display
such a degree of ferocious bloodthirstiness
and hardihood as to bear a greater resem
blance to a host of mad tigresses than hu
man creatures. They utterly despise death;
they show no mercy to any living being iu
war; they are mad alter blood, and seein
not to know what fear means. They are
in fact, a troop < f devils so to speak, whose
hideous wildness us manner,and the savage
madness of whose demeanor in times ot ex
citement are so appalling and inhuman as
to have led many well-judging persons to
the opinion that these dreadful creatures
are periodically subjected to the influence of
some species of drug which has this effect.
The dress of the Amazon consists of a pair
of loose trousers, an upper garment cover
ing the breast, a cap. They ?.:e armed
with a gun, knives and daggers; some have
blunderbusses, others long elephant gun?
while the remainder carry the ordinary
musket. In their military exercises they
display good as veff as wonder
ful dexterity and agility.
corn contains four times rhe
amount of fat that i» usually found m
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