‘king boy’s’ ambassadors. 
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of ‘ Boy,’ King of Brass Town, arrived on a visit to 
Captain Trotter, bringing with them three sheep as a 
“ dash,” or present. ‘ Boy,’ sent as an excuse for not 
coming in person to see the Captain, that he was 
engaged making Ju-ju, but hoped the vessels would re- 
main three days, as he was anxious to have a “ palaver.” 
The young princes said, that when the Brass people 
heard of the arrival of the English ships, they were all 
very much pleased, and danced for joy. 
King Boy is a very important personage here. The 
sovereignty of both sides of the Nun is in his hands, 
and to use the words of his embassy, “ King Boy pass 
aU black man which, after all, was an empty boast, 
as he is tributary to Obi Ossai, of Abbh. 
They said. King Boy, and his brother, King Will, 
had a good deal of palm-oil at Brass, “ and they would 
rather sell the oil than slaves.” The King of Brass 
has eighteen large canoes, with forty men in each, which 
he sends to Aboh for palm-oil, yams, fowls, buUocks, 
goats, sheep, rice and black beans, in exchange for which, 
he gives rum, cowries, cloths, shirts, hats, caps, knives, 
looking-glasses, snuff-boxes, hooks and lines, scissors, 
muskets, powder and ball, tumblers, wine-glasses, &c. 
They would not allow that human sacrifices take 
place at Brass, saying that bullocks and goats were 
used instead, at their great Ju-ju feasts ; and these, with 
a profusion of fowls and yams, are liberally bestowed to 
all present on such occasions. 
King William’s son is called ‘Jack Fire.’ He is a 
