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confines of his kingdom. They go to the Eggarah 
market directly after the new moon ; the journey there 
and back takes about five days ; after resting a day, they 
go to the station below. At the upper one, they 
receive the produce of the interior, brought there by the 
Eggarah people, the chief town of which was formerly 
erroneously called Attah; this produce they exchange 
at the lower market with the traders from Brass and 
Bonny. 
This is the general method of intercourse with the 
merchants, who never traverse a foreign state to visit a 
distant market. The practice, we believe, obtains in 
most parts of Central Africa, which may account for the 
difficulty and, apparently, unjust detention European 
travellers have met with in endeavouring to cross many 
kingdoms ; they were in fact transgressing the laws 
of nations. A regular exception appears to be in the 
Kafilahs, or troops of merchants with slaves, who are 
said to make very long journeys. Another apparent 
exemption came under our notice, for we saw many 
canoes from Brass lying in the Aboh Creek. But we 
understood that King Boy, of Brass Town, whose real 
name is Ammai-kunno, pays something like tribute for 
this privilege. In order also to secure still further the 
the upper and lower market-town is named Oniah, and in the Eggarah 
dominions they are called Kiri, or I’Kiri, which Oldfield spells Iccory, 
Thus there appears to be a confusion of names, which this supposition 
would clear up and account for Lander calling the place where he was 
captured, which is common to both the nations, the Kiree market. 
