Book contents
- Frontmatter
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 THE YORUBA LANGUAGE
- 3 A SKETCH OF YORUBA GRAMMAR
- PART I THE PEOPLE, COUNTRY, AND THE LANGUAGE
- PART II
- CHAPTER I THE FOUNDERS OF THE YORUBA NATION
- CHAPTER II HISTORICAL KINGS
- CHAPTER III THE KINGS OF OYO IGBOHO
- CHAPTER IV A SUCCESSION OF DESPOTIC KINGS
- CHAPTER V BASORUN GAHA AND HIS ATROCITIES AND ABIODUN'S PEACEFUL REIGN
- CHAPTER VI THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE RISE OF THE FULANIS TO POWER
- CHAPTER VIII CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER IX FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER X SPREAD OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER XI THE REVOLUTION IN THE EPO DISTRICTS
- CHAPTER XII WARS FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND BALANCE OF POWER
- CHAPTER XIII THE LAST OF KATUNGA
- CHAPTER XIV THE INTERREGNUM
- CHAPTER XV THE NEW CITY, NEW GOVERNMENT, ILORIN CHECKED
- CHAPTER XVI FRATRICIDAL WARS
- CHAPTER XVII SUBJUGATION OF THE IJESAS AND EKITI'S SOCIAL REFORMS
- CHAPTER XVIII A GLORIOUS END AND A GORY DAWN OF TWO REIGNS
- CHAPTER XIX SEQUELS TO THE IJAYE WAR
- CHAPTER XX THE CLOSE AND THE OPENING CAREERS OF TWO HEROES
- CHAPTER XXI TWO ADMINISTRATIONS OF OPPOSITE POLICIES
- CHAPTER XXII A NEW REIGN AND EVIL PROGNOSTICATION
- CHAPTER XXIII THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE 16 YEARS' WAR
- CHAPTER XXIV CONFLICTS IN THE NORTH
- CHAPTER XXV IBADAN AT ITS EXTREMITY
- CHAPTER XXVI FAILURES AT RECONCILIATION
- CHAPTER XXVII A RIFT IN THE CLOUD
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE REV. J. B. WOOD AND THE A.O.K.
- CHAPTER XXIX THE INTERVENTION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER XXX DISPERSAL OF THE COMBATANTS BY SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS
- CHAPTER XXXI DISTURBANCE IN EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XXXII ABORTIVE MEASURES TO TERMINATE THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN
- CHAPTER XXXIV THE END OF THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXV THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE. THE SEQUEL
- APPENDIX A TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS
- APPENDIX B
- INDEX
CHAPTER XXX - DISPERSAL OF THE COMBATANTS BY SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 THE YORUBA LANGUAGE
- 3 A SKETCH OF YORUBA GRAMMAR
- PART I THE PEOPLE, COUNTRY, AND THE LANGUAGE
- PART II
- CHAPTER I THE FOUNDERS OF THE YORUBA NATION
- CHAPTER II HISTORICAL KINGS
- CHAPTER III THE KINGS OF OYO IGBOHO
- CHAPTER IV A SUCCESSION OF DESPOTIC KINGS
- CHAPTER V BASORUN GAHA AND HIS ATROCITIES AND ABIODUN'S PEACEFUL REIGN
- CHAPTER VI THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE RISE OF THE FULANIS TO POWER
- CHAPTER VIII CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER IX FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER X SPREAD OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER XI THE REVOLUTION IN THE EPO DISTRICTS
- CHAPTER XII WARS FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND BALANCE OF POWER
- CHAPTER XIII THE LAST OF KATUNGA
- CHAPTER XIV THE INTERREGNUM
- CHAPTER XV THE NEW CITY, NEW GOVERNMENT, ILORIN CHECKED
- CHAPTER XVI FRATRICIDAL WARS
- CHAPTER XVII SUBJUGATION OF THE IJESAS AND EKITI'S SOCIAL REFORMS
- CHAPTER XVIII A GLORIOUS END AND A GORY DAWN OF TWO REIGNS
- CHAPTER XIX SEQUELS TO THE IJAYE WAR
- CHAPTER XX THE CLOSE AND THE OPENING CAREERS OF TWO HEROES
- CHAPTER XXI TWO ADMINISTRATIONS OF OPPOSITE POLICIES
- CHAPTER XXII A NEW REIGN AND EVIL PROGNOSTICATION
- CHAPTER XXIII THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE 16 YEARS' WAR
- CHAPTER XXIV CONFLICTS IN THE NORTH
- CHAPTER XXV IBADAN AT ITS EXTREMITY
- CHAPTER XXVI FAILURES AT RECONCILIATION
- CHAPTER XXVII A RIFT IN THE CLOUD
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE REV. J. B. WOOD AND THE A.O.K.
- CHAPTER XXIX THE INTERVENTION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER XXX DISPERSAL OF THE COMBATANTS BY SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS
- CHAPTER XXXI DISTURBANCE IN EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XXXII ABORTIVE MEASURES TO TERMINATE THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN
- CHAPTER XXXIV THE END OF THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXV THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE. THE SEQUEL
- APPENDIX A TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS
- APPENDIX B
- INDEX
Summary
SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS SENT UP
The Treaty duly signed was forwarded to the Governor of Lagos by his special messengers, themselves awaiting further orders at their respective posts at Ode Ondo and Ibadan.
By this time the Governor's furlough was due, but, with the sanction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, he had arranged everything for the accomplishment of this work, and matters were left in the hands of the Acting-Governor, F. Evans, Esq., the Colonial Secretary, to carry out. Mr. Henry Higgins, the Asst. Col. Secretary and Mr. Oliver Smith, Queen's Advocate, were appointed Special Commissioners for this business. They were to be attended by an escort of 50 Hausa soldiers, each provided with 50 rounds of ball cartridges for their Martini Henry rifles. They had also with them a 7-pounder gun, and a rocket trough with necessary ammunition.
Capt. W. Speeding, the Harbour Master, also accompanied the expedition, with instructions to make geographical observations all along the route from Ejirin on the lagoon—the point of disembarkation—through Ijebu Ode, Ibadan, to Osogbo and Kiriji, to return to Lagos if possible via Ilesa, Ode Ondo, Aiyesan, Itebu, and Atijere. He was also to make as far as possible a survey map of the route and to fix the positions of the principal towns, the number of houses and inhabitants in each village, names of chiefs, depth, width, and courses of rivers crossed, heights of hills, nature of roads, and all other useful and statistical information to be carefully obtained and recorded.
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- The History of the YorubasFrom the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate, pp. 538 - 560Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010