The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa : their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, etc : with an appendix containing a comparison of the Tshi, Gã, Ęwe, and Yoruba languages / by A.B. Ellis.
- Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon), 1852-1894.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa : their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, etc : with an appendix containing a comparison of the Tshi, Gã, Ęwe, and Yoruba languages / by A.B. Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![skirmis]ies at long intervals, dragged on till 1884, when tlie Grovernor of Lagos was asked to mediate and secure a peace. In 1886 this request was renewed by all the combatants except Ilorin, and the G-overnor accordingly acted as mediator, with the result that representatives from the different tribes assembled at Lagos, and on June 4th an agreement was signed, of which the following were the chief points : (1) Ibadan, Ijesa, and the Ekiti tribes to respec- tively retain their independence. (2) The four Ekiti towns of Otan, Iresi, Ada, and Igbajo to be ceded to Ibadan, on the understanding that the present inhabitants were at liberty to leave them. (3) The town of Modakeke to be reconstructed on territory between the Oshun and Oba rivers, to the north of its then situation; such of the inhabitants as elected to pass under the rule of Ibadan moving to the new site, and those who preferred to become subject to Ife living in Ife territory, but not in Modakeke, which was to be dealt with by the Ifes as they thought fit. The belligerents were at this time established in six large camps, the chief being those at Kiji and Oke Mesi, situated about a mile apart upon opposite sides of a mountainous valley in the north of Ijesa, the former occupied by the Ibadans and the latter by the Ijesas and Ekiti tribes. The Ibadans had another camp at Ikirun, about fifteen miles west of Iviji, between the two arms of the Erinle River, where they confronted the Ilorins, who were encamped at Ofa, eighteen miles to the north. The Modakekes, with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21781370_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
