ABSTRACT
WE resume our account of (~ala.bar affairs; for important andsingular events occurred, soon after we left the country, ","hich must be brie1iy noticed.
Towards the close of 1858, King Eyo suffered occasionally frolll severe pains about his heart; and forewarned thereby, it is supposed, publicly recognised his eldest son as llis successor, charging him and the chiefs of the to,vn that, in the event of his death, no persons should be killed for him. Having gone to his UUJet plantations, he had another violent attack, sent for Dr. Hewan, and recovered. Being a Sabbath there, lle suspended labour as usual, called his people together for public worship, and desired Esien Ukpabio to officiate, who addressed hiIn and them from solemn and appropriate words: " Watch, for ye know neither the day nor the 110ur when the Lord conleth." After his return to town he transacted business as usual for a week, and, an10ng other things, gave the brethren an audience, allcl satisfactory assurances concerning the French demand for negroes for their West Indian colonies, then pressed, by a French ship, on the Calabar people. According to cllston1, he had his brothers at supper with hinl one night, but, feeling unwell, ate and drank sparingly. They had all left, and he 'was rising to retire, ,vhell he staggered, fell back on the sofa, and ,vithout a ,vord, in a few Ininutes, expired.
