ABSTRACT
Up yet another creek lies the town of Idua Asang, which, like greater Idua, claims to have been founded by the first-comers to this part of the world, driven steadily seaward by the later-arrived Oronn. Many years ago the neighbouring towns, Eyo Abassi and Ikwita, made war upon the Iduans, defeated them with great slaughter and drove them forth from their homes. There was nowhere for the conquered to flee, save to the desolate mangrove swamps, where for a while they lived in great misery, “like monkeys amid the branches” overhanging the treacherous, evil-smelling mud.
