Gregapojee--Extensive Market at--Native Produce and European Manufactures--Popoe Beads, their Value; probable Origin of--Houses--Situation and Soil of Gregapojee--Fish--Alligators--Population--Return to Ahguay, and thence to Whydah--Toll-house--Fish-trap--Travelling Canoe--Beautiful Scenery of the Lagoon--Oysters growing to Trees--Old Ferryman--Gibbets of three Criminals--Murder committed by them--The English Fort at Whydah--Character of M. de Suza--Treatment of Slaves--Hints with reference to this odious Traffic--Price of Slaves--Slave Hunts--Necessity for Education--Cruelty in the Shipment of Slaves--Visit to Avoga--Account of him--Reception by him--Mode of Riding--Bad Road--Reason for not repairing it--Market at Whydah--Native Manufactures, &c.--Duties imposed by the King of Dahomey--His Enormous Revenue--Head Money--System of Government--Severe Laws, and their Result--Paganism--Abject Superstition of the Natives--Dangerous to show Contempt for their Fetish--Anniversary Offerings for departed Friends--Usual Termination of such Festivals--Snake Worship--Houses built to contain them--The Snake-Lizard--The Field-Lizard--The House-Lizard--Vampire Bats. On the 16th, at 10 A.M., Mr. Hutton, myself, and the captain and supercargo of a Hamburgh vessel, as well as the two junior Lawsons, went by canoe up the lagoon, to visit the famous market and town of Gregapojee,[9] three miles and a half N.W. by N. from Popoe. The town is of little moment, having nothing remarkable about it; but the market is the most extensive of any of the settlements on the lagoon, except Whydah. Cotton, both raw and manufactured into cloth, is sold in the market, the latter very high in price, owing to their tedious mode of manufacture. The cloth is, however, much stronger and more durable than that manufactured in England. Beads, both of European and native manufacture, are offered for sale here; and the Popoe bead is also an article of traffic, but it is very scarce and of high price. Nothing is really known of the origin of the Popoe beads: they are sometimes found in digging the earth in and round the town, when making mortar or swish. They are generally from half an inch to an inch in length, and of a tubular form, much resembling a stout pipe-handle broken into small pieces. They are of a light red coral colour; but though they have, I believe, been minutely examined by scientific men in Europe, the result has not proved very satisfactory. They are balanced with gold in purchasing, consequently very few persons are able to wear them. From the circumstance of their being found at Popoe I am led to the conclusion that these beads have either been manufactured here at some remote period, or that some ship has been cast away, having on board those beads as well as other merchandise, which has long ago perished. My reason for this belief is, that the lagoon extends along this coast to two hundred miles, and is in no place more than a mile