ABSTRACT
When Mrs. 'Vaddell heard of the transaction, she went to the king to request that the body nlight be interred. In that country, persons publicly executed never found a grave. He promised it should be done; but the body ,vas merely thrown aside into the bush. In the evening, Mr. Thomson went to George Eyo, the l1laster of the Inurdered youth, to procure men to bury it. George gloried in having given a man to save a friend, and refused to send people for the object in view, but consented to hire them; and at length the corpse was interred-the first time, perhaps, that a slave victim had ever there received the respect due to our conlnlon humanity.*
Another nlurder had been committed the follo\ving night, by order of King Eyo, in a different way. The offender was a slave belonging to Father Tom, the Iring's eldest brother. His fault was the saIne as that of the freeman. But there was no need for an Egbo ceremony or a substitute in his case. He was tied hands and feet, and thrown into the river.
