egbo-house

Updated: September 10, 2025

Thus equiped he starts from the Egbo-house, runs through the streets with his bells ringing, to the house of the offender, followed by half a dozen subordinate personages fantastically dressed, each carrying either a sword or stick.

James Holman - A Voyage Round the World, Volume I : Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832