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but they continue to pay a tax of forty yams each 
season, and a small tithe of their goats, fowls, &c. By 
thus incorporating them with the free people, many are 
induced to “ sit down” quietly who would otherwise 
try and escape. There was a strong case in point 
with Ali Here, who was formerly, in 1832, as on the 
present occasion, lent by Obi as pilot. He was a young 
Haussa slave belonging to Obi, and was taken to 
Fernando Po in the ‘ Alburkah,’ where he might have 
obtained his freedom, but he preferred returning to 
his master. On a similar offer being now made to him, 
he said he was married, and although he knew he was 
a slave, he had commenced a little trading on his own 
account, was quite satisfied with his lot, and did not 
wish to leave his country. 
28fA. — Agreeably to his promise. Obi Osai went on 
board the ‘ Albert’ this morning, where he was received 
by Captain Trotter and the Commissioners, with whom 
he breakfasted. His dress was not so gay as on his 
visit of yesterday, being merely a cotton jacket and 
trousers, much in want of a laundress, a red cap on 
his head, and some strings of coral, and teeth of wild 
beasts round his neck, wrists and ankles. He entered 
frankly into the views previously explained to him, and 
assented unhesitatingly to all required from him. It 
was, however, necessary that the Treaty, which had 
been drawn up on the basis of the draft furnished 
by Lord John Russell, with the addition of some 
articles relating especially to the free navigation of 
