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单词 Bight of Benin
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The present-day country of Benin, formerly known as Dahomey until 1975, was named for the maritime geographical feature the Bight of Benin, which itself was named for the Nigerian kingdom. U.S. museums agree to return bronzes looted from pre-colonial African kingdom to Nigeria 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z
The gold sought by the Portuguese came from inland deposits in the forested coastal region that runs roughly parallel to the equator between modern Sierra Leone and the Bight of Benin. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
Historians have also noted that the people who were taken to Latin America from Africa disembarked from West Central Africa, but many were taken originally from other regions like Senegambia and the Bight of Benin. Large DNA Study Traces Violent History of American Slavery 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z
A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z
During the smoke season when dense fogs hang over the Bight of Benin, the Bristol ships get very considerably sworn at by the steamers. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z
I think the most marvellous sight I ever saw was when I was crossing the Bight of Benin. Mr. Punch On Tour 2011-05-22T02:00:12.297Z
No part of the habitable globe was unfamiliar to him: from India to the Pole, from Russia to the Brazils, from the China Sea to the Bight of Benin—every harbour was a home. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z
For a distance of about five hundred miles along the Bight of Benin there is an intricate chain of waterways, which lies just at the edge of the sea. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z
Fifty or a hundred years later, Hanno, a Carthaginian, made a voyage down the west coast and seems to have got as far as the Bight of Benin. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide
Bougainville believed that he at any rate went well into the Bight of Benin, while others think he went at any rate as far as Gaboon. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z
This flourishes in Dahomey, and along the whole of the Bight of Benin. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Passing in the following year from the Bight of Benin toward Houssa, he was attacked with dysentery; was carried back to Gato, and thence put on board an English vessel lying off the coast. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851.
Just north of the equator, in the Bight of Benin, the coast loses this marked characteristic and becomes high and bold, with the Cameroon Mountains for a background. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z
After remaining a few days, during which time nothing transpired that required our presence, we again weighed and sailed along the coast towards the Bight of Benin. A Sailor of King George
On the 26th November, 1825, the expedition arrived in the Bight of Benin. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
Slavery, bad along the whole Bight of Benin, is worse, still, in Dahomey. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
One of the residents told Dr. Whitney that all the coast of the Bight of Benin, into which the Niger empties by its various mouths, was quite as unhealthy as Bonny. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
As the Lander brothers floated down the stream formed by the union of these two, they soon found themselves in the Bight of Benin. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z
Right out to sea, and, unless we get our eyes back soon, right across to the Bight of Benin, three thousand miles from here. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
One of the most important services, however, rendered by the squadron was the capture of Lagos, in the Bight of Benin, under Commodore Bruce, in 1851. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
The town of Lagos, built at the mouth of the river Ogun, which debouches in the Bight of Benin, is a healthy place, and well situated for trade. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign
The center of this culture lay probably, in oldest times, above the Bight of Benin, along the Slave Coast, and reached east, west, and north. The Negro
The latter is the only important inlet upon the Atlantic coast, and divides into two branches,—the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z
After leaving the Gold Coast, our course is shaped across the Bight of Benin straight for the Congo. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State
The trade in palm oil has almost driven out the slave trade from the Bight of Benin, which was a few years ago one of its principal seats. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
It is not of palm oil and rubber one thinks when he reads on the ship's itinerary, "the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, the Bight of Benin, and Old Calabar." The Congo and Coasts of Africa
For Walker, whose father was the junior partner in a firm of West African merchants, obtained for Hatteras an employment as the bookkeeper at a branch factory in the Bight of Benin. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories
Its population is nearly a thousand souls, composed of the descendants of natives of Aco, who were taken from a slave vessel on the river Lagos in the Bight of Benin. A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832
Slave Coast, name given to the Bight of Benin, in West Africa, from Lagos to the Volta River. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge
From the Bight of Benin, the voyaging spectators took an excursion up the river. Round the Block
Here, embarking in canoes, they ascended the river through its rapids to Yaouri, and thence traced it to the sea in the Bight of Benin. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
The rain came down as it can come only in the Bight of Benin. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
Hanno, a Carthaginian, explored the coast as far, perhaps, as the Bight of Benin, certainly as far as Sierra Leone. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28
Why, when Captain Cringle there was in the Bight of Benin, from which 'One comes out where a hundred go in,' on board of the—what—d'ye—call—her? Tom Cringle's Log
"Oh! no, sir; it is the Bight of Benin; and I must say, though, perhaps, I am too partial, that Ceccarini never did a better thing." Round the Block
The Bight of Benin washes the coast of Dahomey and other countries, known also by the name of the Slave Coast. The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea
Afterwards, as a slaver, and even, as it was hinted, as a pirate, he had left an evil name behind him in the Bight of Benin. The Green Flag
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