ABSTRACT
Calabar—Description of the estuary—Tom Shott—Parrot island—Fish-town—Hickery Cock-town—Old Calabar described—Duke Ephraim—Mr. James Grant’s sketch—Royal household—Yam chop—Duke’s wives—His dress-Children—How washed—Duke’s retinue—Fighting days—A dash or duché—Manners of the natives—Petticoats sent to the duke’s wives—Head dresses—Máncelas—Palm oil—Eight thousand tons imported into Liverpool last season-Human sacrifices—Curious tombs or monuments—Narrator endeavours in vain to save a female from death—Horrid manner of execution—A hundred human beings sacrificed in a day—“Grand Egbo,” a minister of destruction, described—Decapitation of a fisherman—“Picaneeny Egbo”—Widows shave their heads—Drinking parties at funerals—Currency of the country—Palm oil, how sold—Chicanery both of Europeans and Africans in trade—Anecdote of the narrator-Oil merchants, how treated—An instance of cheating and maltreating the natives on the Gold Coast—Such conduct not general—Conclusion—Author’s remarks—Reflections of the editors—Anecdotes of negroes.
