ABSTRACT
WE have come to the last year of our labours in Calabar. Theschool, which had been taught for eight months by young Mr. Edgerley, again devolved on nle, when he returned to Duke Town to conduct the printing, in room of his deceased father. An incident of that department of our duty may be nlentioned to p.xemplify the inlpartiality with which it was conducted. The King's youngest son, Ekpenyong, was a careless little fellow, averse to the school, and full of excuses for avoiding it. One day he was later than ordinary, and his excuses, though various and ingenious, all proved to be false. His guardian attendant, Ekpriwong, a steady, good boy, it was ascertained, had been endeavouring for an hour to get hinl along, with continual resistance or evasion from his little master. The one was punished, therefore, and the other rewarded; and when the King heard thereof, he sent me back a message to say that he ,vas very nluch obliged to me.
