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Commissioners. — What articles of trade are best 
suited to your people, or what would you like to be 
brought to your country ? 
Ohi. — Cowries, cloth, muskets, powder, handker- 
chiefs, coral beads, hats — anything from the white man’s 
country will please. 
Commissioners. — You are the King of this country, 
as our Queen is the sovereign of Great Britain ; but 
she does not wish to trade with you ; she only desires 
that her subjects may trade fairly with yours. Would 
they buy salt ? 
Ohi. — Yes. 
Commissioners. — The Queen of England’s subjects 
would be glad to trade for raw cotton, indigo, ivory, 
gums, camwood. Now have your people these things 
to offer in return for English trade-goods ? 
Obi.— Yes. 
Commisssioners. — Englishmen wiU bring everything 
to trade but rum or spirits, which are injurious. If 
you induce your subjects to cultivate the ground, you 
will aU become rich ; but if you seU slaves, the land will 
not be cultivated, and you wiU become poorer by the 
traffic. If you do aU these things which we advise you 
for your own benefit, our Queen will grant you, for your 
own profit and revenue, one out of every twenty articles 
sold by British subjects in the Aboh territory j so that 
the more you persuade your people to exchange native 
produce for British goods, the richer you will become. 
You will then have a regular profit, enforced by treaty. 
