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EDEEYAH HUNTEES. 
frequently given to eacli of our men at daylight. 
About thi’ee or four pints may generally be extracted 
each day, but it gradually ceases after the seventh or 
eighth. The total quantity for each tree, averages 
about four gallons, but this depends on the size and age. 
A party of disaffected Krumen and Fishmen, who 
left the employment of the West African Company, 
had taken up their abode in George’s bay, and had 
caused the natives much trouble, stealing their yams, 
canoes, &c., some fighting had in consequence resulted, 
in which the aggressors were beaten and some killed. 
An officer was sent to inform them that they had 
better return to their work at Clarence, and that if 
they continued to harass the natives, they were not to 
expect British protection, in case they were retaliated 
on by the suffering aboriginals. 
We had a visit from two Edeeyah hunters, bringing 
various specimens of monkeys, squirrels, &c., &c., which 
they had killed with slings. They were accompanied 
by their wives, two of the most beautifully formed and 
symmetrical figui’es we have ever seen. Notwith- 
standing the disfigurement of the face by large inci- 
sions, and the clay- bedaubed hair, they looked re- 
markably pretty, nay, even interesting; their gentle 
and modest demeanour, contrasting strangely, with the 
almost naked and unadorned state of their persons. 
These were first wives, and had only recently come 
forth from the seclusion which they are obliged to 
undergo, prior to the public acknowledgment of the 
marriage contract among the tribe. 
