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ed to see one of the female slaves crushed for 

 want of room: in her arms she held an infant 

 about five days old, and both mother and child 

 appeared to have had their heads shaved that 

 afternoon. Among the rest were six men, na- 

 tives of the Eboe and Ibbodoh country. Each 

 country has its peculiar distinguishing mark 

 which is adopted by its people, and the latter 

 had a longitudinal incision from the external 

 angle of the eye to the mouth. I learnt from 

 King Boy that he pays two muskets, two jack- 

 ets, and a few yards of printed cotton, for each 

 of his slaves, and that two slaves are equal in 

 value to a puncheon of oil in the Eboe country. 



As the object of our visit was to accompany 

 King Boy to Brass, we embarked in his canoe, 

 and were placed in the centre of the fore part of 

 it.* Immediately below us were barrels of pow- 

 der, cutlasses, guns, cans, small swivels, poultry, 

 yams, a wild pig, and a small bullock about 

 the size of an English calf, all the property of 

 King Boy ; and surely never had he reaped such 

 a golden harvest as he had now done from the 

 two steamers, and was carrying off to his abode. 



* In the stein of the canoe a large fire was kept burning on 

 some wet sand. 



