Note 156 — Chapter VI
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The missionaries, headed by Mr. Townsend, take an opposite view of the affair. According to them, the Ibadans seized Ido and Ilugun, stopped the trade road to Ijaye and Isehin, and drove the Abeokutans out of their farms. Her Majesty’s Consul at Lagos, and the British merchants, sent deputations to Abeokuta and Ibadan, to prevent the war: at the former place it succeeded, at the latter it failed. My belief is, however, that the Abeokutans were, and are still, the aggressors.