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You are going for a friendly visit." "If we cannot take our swords and guns we will not go. We will stay home." "But you promised and I promised King Eyo that you would come. Will you go back on your word and make me a liar?" For two hours they argued with Mary. The beach filled with natives from the village who wanted to see the chiefs start on their trip.
Owen's Arrival Visit Creek Town with King Eyo The Royal Establishment Savage Festivities Calabar Cookery Old Calabar River Thursday, 14. ARRIVED in Maidstone Bay, at ten o'clock, when we learnt that Commodore Collier, in the Sybille, with the Esk and Primrose, had been in the bay, and left it only on the preceding day.
The Duke, King Eyo, and several black gentlemen, breakfasted, and began their trade, on board the James to-day.
I one day asked King Eyo who this Egbo was, who ran about with the bells, "What? you tink Egbo be man, no, he be debil, come up from bush, nobody know him," was his reply.
For herself she found a friend in King Eyo, to whom she could go at any time and relate her troubles and receive sympathy and support. She, in turn, was often in his State room advising him regarding the private and complicated affairs of his little kingdom and his relations with the British Government.
"Well," said Mary, "if they won't come to us we must go to them." She had been seeking to familiarise the minds of the chiefs with the idea of settling their disputes by means of arbitration instead of by fighting, and had been cherishing the hope that she might persuade some of them to proceed to Creek Town and discuss the subject with King Eyo.
Much better for white man, than black man's country." Mr. Cowan, the hospital assistant at Fernando Po, and myself, accompanied King Eyo, this evening, in his large canoe, up the river, to Creek Town, a distance of twelve miles, where his Majesty resides. The town is built on the edge of a creek, a short distance from the river.
"Captain Cummins Sir please Let the Bearer have fifteen and the 13 Crew Cask to fill at Toby Creek. "Duke Epbraim." "Captain Image Sir Please Give King Eyo Trust for 800 Crews of Oil be down for it if his no pay I will pay. "Duke Ephraim."
"It is too dangerous to come up-country," answered the traders. "We are afraid the native guards on the jungle paths will kill us." Mary wrote to good King Eyo, of Duke Town. She asked him to invite the Okoyong chiefs for a conference. She promised they would bring jungle goods to trade. King Eyo invited the chiefs. They did not want to go.
A grandson of the first King Eyo also sent men occasionally, with instructions to do anything they could for the white Mother, and to bring down her messages to Calabar. Such kindly thought often took the edge off her loneliness.
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