GOVERNOR CARTER'S PROGRESS UP COUNTRY

Governor Carter was not the man to leave his work half done. The refractory and irreconcilable Ijebus had been subjugated; the Egbas had submitted and their apologies accepted. He now proceeded to the further interior to put an end to the protracted war, fraught with so much evil to the country. The measure adopted for this purpose was the only one capable of dispersing such fierce combatants, viz., an armed intervention advocated for by the writer all through these wearisome years. Although it might not be necessary to pull a trigger, yet a display of force offered a far more convincing weight of argument than volumes of treaties, faultless though these may be in aim and purpose. The presence of the Governor himself gave additional weight and importance to the Mission.

Governor Carter left Lagos on the 3rd January, 1893, for his tour. He was accompanied by a posse of Hausa soldiers, with Captain Bower, one of the officers who came out for the Ijebu war. The Maxim gun was en évidence throughout the whole way.

The Governor went via Abeokuta. He there had a long conference with the Egba chiefs and a treaty was signed on the 18th of January, 1893 (vide App. A).