e desired to go up stairs into his best
room, and they accordingly ascended about thirty or forty wooden
steps, and entered a spacious apartment, when the sight that
presented itself was of the most extraordinary description. The room,
which was about thirty feet in length, by about twenty in breadth,
was literally crammed full of all kinds of European furniture,
covered with cobwebs and dust about half an inch thick. Elegant
tables and chairs, sofas of a magnificent description, splendid
looking-glasses, and prints of the principal public characters of
England, as well as views of sea and land engagements, set in
handsome gilt frames, beautifully cut glass decanters, and glasses,
glass chandeliers, and a number of other things, too numerous to
mention, were all mixed together in the utmost confusion. A handsome
organ attracted the notice of Lander, and a large, solid brass
arm-chair, which from an inscription upon it, appeared to be the
present of Sir John Tobin of Liverpool. The inscription, or rather
raised characters upon it were, "Presented by Sir John Tobin of
Liverpool, to his friend Duke Ephraim," and vain enough is the chief
of his present. He exhibits this chair with the rest of his presents
to the people, or any stranger who may happen to visit him, and
allows them to feast their eyes, as he imagines, on the goodly sight,
but such are his care and pride of them, that he will not allow them
to be touched by any one, and his attendants are not permitted to
approach them, even for the purpose of cleaning off the dust which
has accumulated since their first arrival. The whole of this
miscellaneous assemblage of goods, are presents which have been made
to the duke by merchants of Liverpool, as well as French, Spanish,
and Portuguese traders, and are the accumulation of a considerable
length of time.

Duke Town, or Ephraim Town, as it is known by both of these
appellations, is situated on rather elevated ground, On the left or
east bank of the river, and is of considerable size, extending
principally along it. From the appearance of it, it may be concluded
that its inhabitants amount to at least six thousand people. The
houses are generally built of clay, like those of the Eboe people.
The breadth of the river opposite to it, is not quite so wide as the
Thames at Waterloo Bridge, and the opposite bank is not so high as
that on which the town stands. The houses are built in an irregular
manner, leaving very little