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IBU WOMEN. 
favour of the Ibu sovereign, he some years ago marri(‘d 
one of his daughters, Adzeh, whose name, Lander — in 
celebrating her beauty — altered to the more euphonious 
name Adizetta. She has proved faithless to the “ sea- 
king’’ Amai-kunno, and has recently married her uncle, 
a brother of Obi, by whom she has had two children. 
The Ibu women arc famed for their charms, and in 
order to heighten them, when a man takes a wife, his 
first care is to immure her in a hut, without suffering her 
to take exercise, until she attains the acme of beauty, 
according to the Ibu taste, namely, such an amount of 
obesity as very materially to interfere with the faculty of 
locomotion. 
Whether from ignorance or unwillingness we know 
not, but certainly the natives were much averse to afford- 
ing any information relating to the countries adjacent to 
Abbh, nor could they say anything of the towns or 
villages which one may suppose to be situate a little 
distance from the banks. They admitted that they often 
went into the bush to fight, a sufficient proof that there 
must be other towns than those immediately on the 
river. There is too much reason to believe that Aboh, 
like every other part of Western Africa, where the trade 
in human flesh is one of importance, is often in a state of 
predatory warfare wath its neighbours. How sad is the 
picture which may be drawn from the wretched state of 
insecurity in which a large portion of our fellow-creatures 
* This practice obtained also among the ancient Guanches. 
