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MR. care's pate. 
There was fortunately no firing on the part of our 
countrymen — who acted with most praiseworthy for- 
bearance on the occasion. The only reprisal made, 
was to capture a canoe belonging to King Boy, by 
whose machinations. Obi had in all likelihood been 
induced, to make such an ungrateful return for the 
favours bestowed on him. 
After waiting a short time to allow the chief an 
opportunity of explaining this hostile conduct, the 
‘ Wilberforce’ got under weigh, and proceeded down 
the river. 
The next morning, Obi’s messenger and the two 
Brass men. King Boy’s subjects, were severally inter- 
rogated respecting Mr. Carr’s captivity or murder. 
Their statements merely went to prove what had been 
already avowed, that King Boy had taken two Bassa 
men prisoners, who had in their canoe, when ex- 
amined, some white men’s clothes, and that the persons 
thus suspected, as well as the articles found in their 
possession, were at Brass Town, Boy’s head-quarters. 
That the two Bassa men said, the “ white man” had 
been tied to a tree and shot, at Bassa Town — a small 
place situated in a narrow creek of the lower Benin 
branch, about forty miles from the mouth of the 
river — and his servant, a liberated African, sent into 
the country as a slave, but more probably murdered 
to prevent his giving evidence against them, at any 
future time. 
The white man’s effects were described as com- 
