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Books.

CAPTAIN FORBES'S DAHOMEY AND TRE DA 1101dANS. * ArrEn the late John Duncan returned from his successful expedi- tion to the Kong Mountains, he was appointed Tice-Consul at the......

Fraser's Military Memoir Of James Skinner. * No One Who Has

read many books relating to Hindostan and its wars but must have met with some striking traits of "Skinner's Horse " ; a body of irregular cavalry which on parade exhibited the......