ABSTRACT
Lukoja. LtJKOJA. On the 26th June, 1866, Mr. John Lyons McLeod was
appointed Consul for the districts bordering on the Rivers Niger and Chadda (or Benn~), to reside at Lukoja, where he arrived on the 23rd of August, 1867.*
On the 19th of the follo,ving montll Bishop Cro\vther and others were seized at Oko Okein by Abbokko,t and Th'Ir. William Fell was sent by Consul McLeod to procure their release; but the boat in which they were being conveyed down the river ,vas fired upon by the natives, and l\tlr. Fell was killed (28th September, 1867).t
On the 30th July, 1868, Lieut. Sandys, R.N., entered the Niger with H.M. ships "Pioneer" and "Investigator." He ascended the Benne as far as the Atipo, which village he destroyed (22nd August) ; he then went lip the Niger to Wanangi, the nearest town to Bidda, the residence of King Massamba, and left on the 9th of September. On the 13th of September he arrived at I.Jukoja and destroyed the village on Beaufort Island (16th of September). The cause of the destruction of these villages was that their kings dernanded that 200 of the Lukoja people should be sold into slavery, or the sum of 1,000l. paid as the ransom for Bishop Crowther, and an attack on Lukoja was threatened unless these demands were complied with.§ The Lukoja Consulate was abolished on the 13th of May, 1869, and Lieut. Dixon, R.N., then Acting Consul, left Lukoja on the 16th September, 1869.
