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opportunity of seeing canoes brought from Kosie to Lagos, and 
purchased from the slave merchants of the interior. They were 
very superior in size and convenience to those of the coast, were 
covered in, with a distinct apartment for the trader and his wives, 
and would hold a hundred slaves. I never heard any slaves speak 
of being brought any part of the way by water, but I have not 
seen any who were brought to Kosie or Lagos. 
The Karhala is the only large river likely to communicate with, 
or to form that of Lagos ; possibly the Karhala might run to the 
large lake in Hio, which Snelgrave says (from the information of 
the Portuguese mulatto he found at Abomey) " is the fountain of 
several large rivers which empty themselves into the Bay of Guinea.^^ 
The Lagos river may flow from this lake, but this is mere conjec- 
ture. The gentleman to whom I am indebted, places the Mahees 
north of Dahomey, instead of north- west as in Norris's map, which 
is allowed to be far from discriminate in the interior parts, in the 
preface to Dalzel's History, and this is also more probable, because 
about nine years ago, the King of Hio entirely conquered the 
Mahees, and upwards of 20,000 of them were brought for sale to 
Lagos. 
The Joos, inconsiderately reported to Adams's editor as being, 
with the Anagoos aud Mahees, the principal nations on the journey 
to the Niger, and nearer to the coast, avoiding Dahomey, are pro- 
bably the Jaboos, who are about 40 miles westward of Kosie, and 
not behind Cradoo, as in Norris's map. They are celebrated for: 
the cloths of their name, of which the Portuguese have shipped 
such large quantities. The Anagoos, or Nagoos, are the north 
westward neighbours of Dahomey. 
The extent of Fantee is corrected from the conjectural enlarge- 
ment of it by Mr. Meredith, and, with that of Ashantee, Akim, 
Assin, Warsaw, Ahanta, &c. &c. is sufficiently distinct in the pre- 
