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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 433 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRASS , a See also:

river, See also:town and See also:district of See also:southern See also:Nigeria, See also:British See also:West See also:Africa. The Brass river is one of the deltaic branches of the See also:Niger, lying See also:east of the Rio See also:Nun or See also:main channel of the river. From the point of divergence from the main stream to the See also:sea the Brass has a course of about too m., its mouth being in 6° 20' E., 4 35' N. Brass town is a flourishing trading See also:settlement at the mouth of the river. It is the headquarters of a district See also:commissioner and the seat of a native See also:court. Its most conspicuous See also:building is a See also:fine See also:church, the See also:gift of a native See also:chief. The See also:capital of the Brass tribes is Nimbe, 30 M. Up river. The Brass river, called by its Portuguese discoverers the Rio Bento, is said to have received its See also:English name from the brassrods and other brass utensils imported by the See also:early traders in See also:exchange for See also:palm-oil and slaves. The Brass natives, of the pure See also:negro type, were noted for their See also:savage See also:character. In 1856 their chiefs concluded a treaty with See also:Great See also:Britain agreeing to give up the slave-See also:trade in exchange for a See also:duty on the palm-oil exported. Finding their profitable business as middlemen between the up-river producer and the exporter threatened by the See also:appearance of See also:European traders, they made ineffective complaints to the British authorities.

The See also:

establishment of the Royal Niger See also:Company led to further loss of trade, and on the 29th of See also:January 1895 the natives attacked and sacked the company's station at Akassa on the Rio Nun, over See also:forty prisoners being killed and eaten as a See also:sacrifice to the fetish gods. In the following See also:month a punitive expedition partially destroyed Nimbe, and a heavy fine was paid by the Brass chiefs. Since then the See also:country has settled down under British See also:administration. The trade regulations of which complaint had been made were removed in 1900 on the establishment of the See also:protectorate of Southern Nigeria (see NIGERIA). Valuable See also:information concerning the country and See also:people will be found in the See also:Report by See also:Sir See also:John See also:Kirk on the Disturbances at Brass (Africa, No. 3, 1896).

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