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be good if tlie Filatahs could be persuaded that 
the traffic was bad ; were this the case, they would 
cease to sell us when the tribute was not forth- 
coming.” 
Macaulay, one of our interpreters, had been a slave 
at this very town, and, curious to say, almost the first 
female we met was the woman who sold him. She 
laughed heartily, and seemed delighted at seeing her 
former slave, and wished to present him with a fowl 
if he could stop a little. She was a stout little 
woman, with some feaiful gashes in her face. She 
laughed and said that she was not hitherto aware that 
it was wrong to sell slaves, but after all she never 
wished to part with Macaiday ; her husband insisted 
upon it, and, acting upon the doctrine of obedience, she 
gave way to her better half. Macaulay was born at 
Mamagia (Nufi). When a boy he was stolen by the 
Filatahs, and taken by them to Egga, who sold him 
to a mallam of Kakanda, called La-firma, who sold 
him again to the Buddu damsel ; she in turn disposed of 
him to King Obi ; Obi sent him with a canoe load 
of slaves to King Peppel of Bonny, by whom he was 
sold to a Spanish slave ship, which was taken by one 
of our cruisers. 
They denied that human sacrifice had ever been 
made by them or their ancestors, even before the 
introduction of Mahomedism. They sacrifice only 
goats, sheep, and fowls, to propitiate the Deity. 
I have been all along very desirous to extend the 
