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billeh’s palace. 
were ranged about a dozen large cliests, containing 
cloth of European fabric. The walls were adorned 
with looking-glasses of divers sizes, and abundance of 
crockery-ware, for no other purpose than show, and 
some of it in very curious juxta-position. A back- 
room was used as a sitting-room, and had chairs and 
tables, with presses around the walls, the depositaries 
of his wealth, and various articles for trade with the 
natives of the interior. Beneath this floor were other 
apartments, or magazines. Two long lines of huts 
behind the palace were occupied by his numerous 
wives, children, slaves, and cattle. 
This house, and another of smaller dimensions, were 
constructed at Fernando Po, by Mr. Scott, and cost 
one hundred dollars. Being situated on an elevation, 
and whitewashed, it had a very imposing appearance ; 
well calculated to impress the surrounding natives with 
a due idea of the chiefs dignity, derived from his 
friendship with the white men. He was, in fact, con- 
firmed in his supremacy by Colonel Nicolls, about 
fifteen years ago, when he surrendered the sovereignty 
of his country to England, and received the title of 
King William. He is brother to the former chief, 
Naka, who ruled over all the country at the eastern 
base of the Oamaroons Mountain called Bakwileh ; 
that is to say, he had more wealth than the neighbour- 
ing chiefs, who will hardly acknowledge even a nominal 
supremacy. There are several of these petty chiefs 
in the little strait of Bimbia, whose villages are 
