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[^0]:    51 D'Avezac-Macaya, Notice, p. 36. Igbore, Oko, and Ikereku were Egba and not Remo towns. Osifekunde took these routes during trade itineraries, so his estimates of time and space must take account of stoppages in market towns. For details, see Ojo, 2017, "The slave ship Manuelita and the story of a Yoruba community, 1833-1834," Tempo 23, no. 2, pp. 360-82.
52 Lloyd, "Osifekunde," pp. 246-50.
53 A ship brought nearly 400 Africans called "Ecomoso" to Cuba in 1834. See Ojo, "The slave ship."  
from ... the Oyo country, where it is called "Ichery." It is already a large stream at Ecomosho and too large to be forded at "Oukbo." It crosses Remo and empties into the lagoon at Ikorodu." Lloyd is right that the "description of the courses of major rivers is very muddled. It is the Ogun which rises in Oyo and enters the lagoon near Ikorodu. River Osun rises beyond Osogbo, passing twenty miles east of Ibadan to reach the lagoon near Epe. ${ }^{54}$ However, one might blame D'Avezac for not understanding what Osifekunde, an Ijebu-Yoruba speaker, said in Creole Portuguese and perhaps with a blend of French Creole. Otherwise he could have imposed a personal geographical interpretation from existing works on rivers around Lagos. The reference was not to one river but two - Ogun and Osun. River Osun rises in Ekiti and runs westward to Osogbo where it turns south to flow by Ikire and Ijebu Igbo, before joining the lagoon at Epe. On the other hand, River Ogun rises in northern Oyo and flows through Abeokuta before entering the lagoon at Ikorodu. The claim that Osun entered the lagoon at Ikorodu misunderstood Osifekunde's account. His reference was to a stream with the same name emptying into River Ogun at Iseri village, west of Ikorodu and north of Lagos. No wonder many people around Lagos also refer to Ogun as Iseri as well as Osun. ${ }^{55}$