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145 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett
CHAPTER XVIII. BENIN DISTRICTS
QUARTERS.
The Provinces. -Benin City.-The King's Compound. -Bronzes. -A Bini House.
DISTRICTS.
THE OBA'S central province was bound by the rivers
OYISA, OKWO, OVIA, OLUKUN, AWREHOMO, and IKPOBA. From the city through this
province to six outlying districts or provinces, six great roads led, and these roads and
districts were under the following chiefs:-
Gilly-Gilly under Ezomo.
Udo under OLIHA.
Shelu under ERO.
Geduma under OGIFA.
Sapoba under CIGIAML
Sapelli under ELEMA.
The neutral (or ambassador's province) under ELAUWEY was bounded by the rivers
OFUSU, OHA, and upper OVIA or OSSE, with its capital at OKENUE or OKELUSE. When
they reached this place ELAUWEY told Bini to go on to OGIFA'S place and that he would
follow in five days (but he stayed there and formed the province as a kind of buffer
province between the Yoruba and Bini Kingdoms).
In each of these districts there are a certain number of OGIE (OGICI). In ELAUWEY,
OGOTE, the two Bale, UHEIN and IKOHA, under OJIMA Of OKENUE.
ODCLOBO Sapelli road under ELEMA seems to have extended to UMUGUMO and the
country between the rivers EKHIMI, IGBAGON, and OLUKUN. The ogies are:-
OGYUMUGUMU IZAWGBO.
OGYUMUGUMU NUGU.
OGIEBAZOGBI.
OGIOGEGE.
OGIEWISI.
OGIEABABO.
ODIYOKOREOMO (sapoba. under Ogiami) is the district between the rivers EKHIMI and
AUREHOMO, and here we find the following OGIES:-
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