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The objects worshipped by the people of the New Calabar, are the tiger and the shark; while the Bonny people worship the shark and the guana. At half-past four, we anchored, for the night, off Foche Island, inside the first bar of the river, and the pilot went on shore.
John Nun, or First Brass River, discovered to be the Niger Natural Inland Navigation New Calabar River Pilot's Jhu Jhu Foche Island Author Sleeps on Shore Bonny Bath Interview with King Peppel Ceremony of opening the Trade Rashness of a Slave Dealer Horrible Fanaticism Schooner at Sea Return to Fernando Po Wednesday, January 23, 1828.
We found the natives of Foche Island very cautious in coming off, even the pilot would not reply to our signals, until we had sent a messenger to tell him what we were, nor would he even then consent to sleep on board. I have little doubt, from the timidity he exhibited, that the slave-vessels have occasionally enticed pilots and their people on board, and carried them off for slaves.
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