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These seasonal swamps allow for year-round cultivation and even, at times, the production of two crops a year. Crops such as rice, cotton, and sugarcane can thus be cultivated in an area where the annual rainfall alone would normally not be sufficient. More recently, considerable expansion in the production of these specialized crops and of vegetables has been made possible by artificial irrigation. This has helped to even out the highly seasonal pattern of farming in parts of the savannah and semi-savannah region.
38 In response to Eyamba’s boastings that he would put him in chains, King Eyo quietly prepared his armed forces and descended the river to Duke Town where he ‘offered’ himself to Eyamba and asked the latter to put him in chains. Eyamba, taken quite aback, tried to explain and laugh it off as a joke before he offered Eyo some drinks. No, No, Eyo told him that he never drank wine and that he had not come to make play, but to see if Eyamba was fit to chain him. If he could not do that, there was no need to remain CITY STATES OF OLD CALABAR 45 longer.
20. 272. 21. CO 2/24, encl. H. , London, 1848, vol. Ekejiuba, The Aro system of trade in the nineteenth century’, Ikenga, Nsukka, 1, 1 (Jan. 1972), 11–26. 22. Dike, Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, London, 1956, pp. 55–6. 23. NEDECO, op. cit. 24. 69–70. 25. 84–90. 26. 36–7. 27. Laird and Oldfield, op. , vol. 138. 28. Allen and Thomson, op. , vol. 271. 29. McWilliam, Medical History of the Expedition to the River Niger during the Years 1841–42, London, 1843, passim. 30. 138. 31. 338. THE COUNTRY OF THE NIGER AREA 35 32.
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