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PRICE OP SLATES. 
the Attali or his subjects from dealing in slaves out 
of his own dominions. Fortunately Aduku, the At- 
tah’s son, who had been sent the day after the treaty 
was concluded (6th September) to promulgate its 
conditions to his father’s subjects, was at this time at 
Gori. Captain Trotter resolved to show that the 
terms of the treaty were to be strictly enforced, de- 
tained the canoe, and got the slaves on deck. Aduku 
came on board soon afterwards, when Ajimba was 
subjected to a formal trial, for a violation of the law. 
Ajimba admitted freely that the law had been broken, 
but pleaded in his defence that at the time he pur- 
chased the slaves, he was not aware of its existence. 
Captain Trotter commented strongly upon Aduku’s 
negligence, in not sooner having made the law known 
at Muye; and assured Ajimba that it would be rigidly 
acted upon in future; that for the present, taking 
everything into consideration, he would not destroy 
the canoe, nor would he seize auy property in it; but 
the slaves he would instantly make free. In token of 
this, the females were each habited in an English dress, 
and the man was rigged out in a sailor’s frock and 
trousers. Poor creatures, their looks expressed a 
mixed feeling of fear, amazement, and gratitude. 
Kindness from their own species seemed new to 
them. 
Ajimba said that he paid for the oldest and fattest 
of the two girls 40,000 cowries, and for the other 
woman and the young man 20,000 cowries each. 
