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 have been sold in the markets of this estuary during the first twenty years of the present century.

After its suppression in 1819 this traffic was gradually replaced by that of palmoil, of which nearly twenty thousand tons have for some years past been exported

from Bonny alone. Owing to the multitude of tribes and languages now represented in this district, English has become the almost indispensable medium of general intercourse. Near the extreme point of the coast below Bonny stands the port of Finnema (Fammena), by the English sailors generally called Jew-Jew-town,