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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 21



56. “The King of the Amazons,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (February 1865): 294-99.


Narrative of a trip to Aboney, the capital of Dahomey (now Benin) in west Africa. The article is illustrated with two woodcuts, one of which depicts an Amazon warrior, a female, holding a rifle.