a very long day's journey (c. 15 miles) brings one to Eremo [Remo], a dependency of Ijebu. Its first town is Ikbore [Igbore], then two long days' march to Oko, and two more long days to Ikrekou [Ikereku], ... in ... Remo. Still farther, four or five hours are enough to reach Ekbomoso, an Oyo town three days from Oukbo [Ijebu Igbo]. Three days beyond Ekbomoso is Ekboumou [Apomu], an important market town which belongs to the brother of the king of Ijebu. ${ }^{51}$  
However, Peter Lloyd thinks "Ekbomoso" was "an Oyo town" and a corruption of Ogbomoso, a northern Yoruba town. ${ }^{52}$ But this interpretation contradicts Osifekunde's statement that "Ekbomoso" was in the south between Ijebu Igbo and Apomu. D'Avezac interviewed Osifekunde repeatedly to verify his data and rule out internal contradictions. Therefore it is reasonable to think either D'Avezac or his publisher misconstrued Osifekunde's recollections by changing ' $h$ ' to ' $b$,' hence rendering 'Echomosho' as Ekbomoso. It is doubtful if Osifekunde, a well-travelled trader, would confuse a town thirty miles north of Ijebu with another located more than a hundred miles away. It also seems implausible that, as a trader, he would not have mentioned such large market towns like Ede, Ibadan, and Iwo, along the Ijebu-Ogbomoso road, if his reference was to Ogbomoso. Moreover, he saw the early days of the Owu wars in which Ijebu fighters were involved and likely met enslaved Owus during his two decades in Brazil (1820-1837).  
Furthermore, Lloyd also ignores Osifekunde's claim that "Ekbomoso" was only four to five hours (i.e. 10-13 miles) beyond Ikereku and near River Osun. The shortest distance between Remo and Ogbomoso and Ogbomoso and Osun was 90 and 40 miles respectively. These details put the town (Ecomosho) near the Ijebu, Owu and Ife border. ${ }^{53}$ It is unclear if Lloyd's mistake came from D'Avezac's understanding of the Yoruba drainage system: "Many ... rivers water and fertilize [Ijebu]. The most important is the Ochou [Oshun], which comes  
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