Duke Town and Creek Town

the chief towns on Old Calabar river, are stations of British mi ionaries, _Calabash, a tree about 30 feet high, found in some places wild, in others cultivated, in the West Indies and other tropical parts of America. The fruit. of the tree is inclosed in a shell used by the natives of the Caribbee Islands for drinking cups, pots, musical instruments, and other domestie utensils, Calabash Nutmeg, a tree of the order Anonacex, introduced into Jamaica probably from Western Africa. The fruit resembles small calabashes; hence the name It is called also American nutmeg, or Jamaica nutmeg. | Calabria,a compart men to of Italy (the “toe” of the boot’), between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas; divided into the provinces of Cosenza.