Note 12 — Chapter XIV · —(Continued).

The bards are of both sexes, and the women dwell in the palace. These chroniclers and narrators of native tradition are here called “Wenukhodoto,” in Egba, “Owgbo.” The King keeps a whole troop of these laureates, very different from him of Bonny, who could afford only “Poet Close.” On the other hand, the latter could plead the well-known to Anglo-Indians “But, I’s English.”