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out armed in various ways, and appeared to be 
determined not to allow the Krumen to land. 
It was thought necessary to beat to quarters, but 
Mr. Strange, first Lieutenant of the ^ Wilberforce,’ took 
the most effectual means of disarming them, by 
going, himself unarmed, and shaking hands with the 
principal men. 
By means of an interpreter, Granby, who fortunately 
was born in a neighbouring town, he explained the 
motives of the visit, with which they expressed their 
satisfaction, by shouting and waving their hands about, 
which was meant as a welcome. The country is called 
Angwileh, and is well cultivated in yams and other 
vegetables. 
It seems the inhabitants of this bank do not admit 
the authority of the Attkh of Iddah, and are frequently 
at war with his subjects. They are tributary to the 
King of Benin, and supposing our errand was a hostile 
movement in behalf of their opponents, were quite 
ready to dispute the point et armis'^ 
None of the Africans we had yet seen were so savage 
in look and manner. All were armed with rude knives, 
spears, bows, and quivers full of poisoned arrows, 
and their resolute independent expression, shewed they 
were prepared to use them. 
One man laid hold of an officer’s gun, perhaps 
only to look at it, and in declining to put it into his 
hand, it was intimated by a sign that it might kill him, 
on which the negro pulled out one of his arrows, and, 
