Waylaid and Captured 
on the coast, and then drive out of the country 
all foreigners opposed to the slave trade. The 
destruction of Ejahyay and Abeokuta, and the re¬ 
capture of Lagos, was included in this scheme. 
Ebekoonleh, the civil governor of Ebaddan, was 
a friend of Areh and was opposed to all this, and 
he not only kept Areh secretly posted as to the 
conspiracy, but he did all he could to thwart 
Ogumulla’s plans. But the latter succeeded in 
forming a powerful war party not only in Ebad¬ 
dan but in all the kingdom of Yoruba, and Ebe¬ 
koonleh was compelled to fall in with the move¬ 
ment. Of volunteers from the towns of Yoruba 
and from Benin, Nufe and other slave-hunting 
nations near the Niger, Ogumulla gathered a large 
army to attack Ejahyay. In the meantime the 
Dahomians were to prevent any assistance by de¬ 
stroying Abeokuta. 
Of all these things, we knew nothing until a 
desperate adventure into which I was precipitated 
by circumstances beyond my control, brought 
them unpleasantly to our knowledge. Among 
the members of the mission church were two 
Liberian carpenters, named Vaughn and Russell, 
who had lived in the country so long that they 
were natives in all respects except in dress and in 
religion. The first of these had established a 
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