Nana Alluma 



You give them access to all you possess, hand 

 over your keys and your money, and distrust 

 only steps in when you are dealing with a boy 

 who has graduated in a missionary school. So 

 much so that if such a one is really anxious to 

 obtain a job he always answers the missionary 

 school question in the negative, whether it is 

 true or not. 



Everything was strange to me, and I felt the 

 climate enervating to a degree. In those days 

 the houses and food were very inferior to what 

 can be had at present. Not that I had anything 

 to worry me, seeing that I had the best we could 

 get, and the same as my chief. He was con- 

 sideration itself, and my one complaint was that 

 he gave me practically nothing to do. 



On our arrival at the Protectorate we were 

 met at Forcados River by H.M.S. Widgeon, and 

 going on board, set out for New Benin, which 

 was but a day's steaming through the creeks 

 creeks framed by the mangrove bushes, and in 

 many cases deep enough to enable a large ship 

 to safely navigate them. 



A war palaver had recently taken place, in 

 which Nana Alluma, the King of New Benin, 

 was the delinquent, and Sir Claude had come 

 out to his duties earlier than he otherwise would 

 have done owing to this small disturbance in 

 order to try Nana and his chiefs, who had all 

 been taken prisoners. 



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