Excerpt from A Voyage to Africa With Some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People IN the beginning of the year 1803, the reduction of the naval establishment, in consequence of the short peace, or rather armistice, cast loose, among other classes of officers, a great number in the medical department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.