94 VISIT TO 



CHAPTER IV. 



Visit to King Ohie. — Tlie Palaver. — The Visit returned. — 

 A Female of Eboe. — Description of Obie. — The Town 

 of Eboe described. — Its produce. — The Delta of the Niger. 

 — Its Inhabitants and their Occupations. — Oil-making and 

 Slave-hunting compared. 



Preparations were now commenced for our 

 visit to King Obie. The launch and other boats 

 were manned by Kroomen, dressed in kilts and 

 velvet caps, an uniform expressly intended for 

 gala-days ; and at 10 a. m. we proceeded on shore 

 in state to pay our respects to the king. Mr. 

 Lander in a general's uniform, with a feather in 

 his cocked-hat that almost reached the ground, 

 Mr. Jordan in a colonel's uniform, and Lieutenant 

 Allen in his own, led the van, and attracted so 

 much of the natives' attention, that Dr. Briggs 

 and myself almost regretted that we had not 

 visited Monmouth-street before our departure 

 from England. 



Preceded by old Pascoe, Jowdie, and some 



