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the river, should be again read and explained to Obi 
and his principal headmen, especially the heir-presumptive, 
and the chief Ju-ju man, much to their annoyance ; and 
as all this occupied a long while, apparently to very 
little purpose, he completely turned against ourselves 
the charge we made against the black people — of not 
knowing the value of time. In agreeing to the addi- 
tional article, binding the Chief and his people to the 
discontinuance of the horrid custom of sacrificing human 
beings, Obi very reasonably inquired what should be 
done with those who might deserve death as punishment 
for the commission of great crimes. 
The important Treaty* having been at length suffi- 
* Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain, and Ohi Osai Chief of 
Ahbh or {Eboe or Ibu,) 
There shall be peace and friendship between the people of Great 
Britain and the people of Ab6h, and the Slave-trade shall be put 
down for ever in the Ahbh country, and the people of Great Britain 
and the people of Ahbh shall trade together innocently, justly, kindly 
and usefully; and Captain Henry Dundas Trotter, Commander Wil- 
liam Allen, Commander Bird Allen, and William Cook, Esq., Com- 
missioners on the part of the Queen of Great Britain, and Obi Osai 
on his own part, and that of his people as Chief of the Abbh country, 
do make the following Agreement for these purposes. 
1. — The Slave-trade shall be utterly abolished in the Abbh 
country, and from the signing of this Agreement, no person whatever 
shall be removed out of the country for the purpose of being treated 
or dealt with as slaves ; nor shall any persons whatever be allowed to 
be brought through the country or any part thereof, for the purpose 
of being treated or dealt with as slaves by way of exportation or 
otherwise ; nor shall any persons whatever be imported into the 
