The Bight of Benin

Anonymous

Beware and take care of the Bight of Benin.
There's one comes out for forty goes in

The Bight of Benin is a large bay or bight in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa.

The poem is an old sailor's rhyme dating from when the terribal diseases of tropical West Africa made the region fatal for so many Europeans.


Main Location:

Bight of Benin, Gulf of Guinea, Atlantic Ocean


Other locations:

Royal Navy ship Black Joke engages the slave ship Amirante

Bight of Benin, 1829.