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Updated: June 29, 2025
The woman's mistress was a daughter of old King Eyo, and a friend of Mary, and she sent the infant, dirty and starved, to the Mission House with her compliments. Mary washed and fed it and nursed it back to decent life, but on sending to the mistress a request that one of the slave women might care for it, she got the reply, "Let it die." She let it live.
"Dear friend Captain Cummins Sir I have to thank you to send me 8 Empett Cask for to go for Market. "I remain your friend Eyo Eyo Honesty." "My friend Captain Commins if you please send me that Rum I been beg you and thank you for lettle Beef too if you got any. "Toby Tom Narrow." "Captain R. Commings Sir I mush obliged to you for please spear me some nails for make door do my friend I remain Sir
King Eyo is more moderate in his conjugal establishment than the Duke, having only twenty wives, while Duke Ephraim's number amounts to sixty. The captain of an English vessel calling on the Duke one day, he exclaimed, "Oh, my friend, you come very good time, I just send away some of my wives, that I have had to entertain me!"
"I shall be glad to come if I may tell your people about Jesus, the Saviour," said Mary. "Sure," said the messenger, "you come and make Jesus-talk." When King Eyo Honesty VII, Mary's old friend, heard of this invitation, he said: "Our Ma must not go as an ordinary traveler to this savage land and people. She must go as a lady and our mother, one whom we greatly respect and love."
On our arrival, we found that King Eyo had a larger wooden framed English house, than the King of the Old Calabar, but not in such good repair: it was also sent from England by Mr. Bold, of Liverpool, to the King's father.
They told her what a fine Christian you were. She told us. She will be very happy when I tell her that I have met you." "I am very happy to have met you," said King Eyo Honesty. "Perhaps I could write a letter to your mother and tell her how happy I am that I have met you. I would tell her how happy I am that her daughter has come to teach my people about God."
Wearied and unrefreshed after her sleepless night, Mary was not in the best of spirits, and she was glad to see King Eyo, who had come to supervise the loading and packing of the canoe: his kind eyes, cheery smile, and sympathetic words did her good, and her courage revived. Few of the natives wished her God-speed.
She could tell he was very sincere. He talked so that everyone could understand him. "Who is that chief?" asked Mary of the man standing next to her. "That is King Eyo Honesty VII," said the man. "King Eyo Honesty? I must talk to him." As soon as she could, Mary went up to the chief. "King Eyo Honesty," said Mary, "I am Mary Slessor. Many years ago the missionaries told my mother about you.
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