Africa and its inhabitants . sulmans. Along both banks follow several other towns and markets, such as Osoiiiariand Ndoni on the left, Ebo and Wari on the right side, the latter capital of thekingdom of like name, and in an island near the bar the village of Akassu, whichhas become a chief centre of the commercial operations of the Royal Niger Com-pany, and the port of entry of the Niger Territories. Bonny and of the Nun, the estuaries of the delta and of Old Calabar have receivedthe name of OH-rkers in a pre-eminent sense. Here the staple of the export trade BRASS.—BONNY. 339 is
Africa and its inhabitants . sulmans. Along both banks follow several other towns and markets, such as Osoiiiariand Ndoni on the left, Ebo and Wari on the right side, the latter capital of thekingdom of like name, and in an island near the bar the village of Akassu, whichhas become a chief centre of the commercial operations of the Royal Niger Com-pany, and the port of entry of the Niger Territories. Bonny and of the Nun, the estuaries of the delta and of Old Calabar have receivedthe name of OH-rkers in a pre-eminent sense. Here the staple of the export trade BRASS.—BONNY. 339 is palm-oil, the chief imports being rifles, munitions, textiles, kitchen utensils,hardware, implements of all sorts, iniiTors, glassware, and coral. Brass, the first important trading-place east of the Nun, lies some distancefrom the coast amid the network of channels connecting the Niger with theBonny. Early in 1595 a native rising at this place, caused by the repressive Fig. 16G.—BoxNY AXD New 1 : 4in, Iklitlm. 0 tolGFeet. 16 to 32Feet. SSIoOlFwt. CA I .rt .mil tipwnnlft. measures of the Niger Company, was followed by much bloodshed, and the plunderof Akassa, at that time capital of the Niger Territories. But the revolt «^squelled, and Brass re-opened to trade by Admiral Bedford, in April. INtO^ Ihedouble estuary of Bo>uu, (Ukoloma) was formerly connected with that of i>ewCalabar by a common mouth now separated into two channels by an island ofrecent formation. It gives access to some great highways of trade traversing v:«tandpopulous but little-known regions in the interi-r Uouny wa^ the most 840 WEST AFRICA. frequented station of the slavers, and as many as three hundred and twentythousand captives were said to have been sold in the markets of this estuary duringthe first twenty years of the present century. xVfter its suppression in 1819 this traffic was gradually replaced by that of palm-oil, of which over twenty thousand tons have for some y
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