The Fellatas Inhabiting Acba Were All Born And Bred In That Town, Their Ancestors Settled In The Country At So Remote A Period, That Although Some Inquiries Were Made Respecting It, All Their Questions Were Unavailing, And In Fact, Not Even A Tradition Has Been Preserved On The Subject.

These "children of the soil," lead a harmless, tranquil, and sober life, which they never suffer passing events to

Disturb; they have no ambition to join their more restless and enterprising countrymen, who have made themselves masters of Alorie and Raka, nor even to meddle in the private or public concerns of their near neighbours of Keeshee. Indeed, they have kept themselves apart and distinct from all; they have retained the language of their fathers, and the simplicity of their manners, and their existence glides serenely and happily away, in the enjoyment of domestic pleasures and social tenderness, which are not always found in civilized society, and which are unknown among their roving countrymen. They are on the best possible terms with their neighbours like the Fellatas at Bohoo and by them are held in great respect.

The governor of Keeshee was a Borgoo man, and boasted of being the friend of Yarro, chief of Kiama, but as the old man told them many wonderful stories of the number of towns under his sway, his amazing great influence, and the entire subjection in which his own people were kept by his own good government, all of which was listened to with patience; they were inclined to believe that the pretensions of the governor were as hollow as they were improbable.

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