Crossword-Solution: OGUN 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The town of Lagos, built at the mouth of the river Ogun, which debouches in the Bight of Benin, is a healthy place, and well situated for trade.

BOYLE, _Clerk_ On the 30th of October, I left Lagos, proceeding _via_ Ogun river, to Abbeokuta, which I reached on Saturday, the 5th of November.

Campbell take charge of all our luggage, and proceed by way of the Ogun to Lagos, (he having disposed of his horse at Abbeokuta) whilst I, on horseback, with William Johnson our cook, the only servant we retained--a civilized native--as guide and attendant, proceeded by land, both reaching Lagos three days after, in the same hour of the same day.

Advantageous Location Lagos, at the mouth of the Ogun river in the Bight of Benin, Gulf of Guinea, 6 deg.

This was once the greatest slave-trading post on the west coast of Africa, and in possession of the Portuguese--the slavers entering Ako Bay, at the mouth of the Ogun river, lying quite inland, covered behind the island till a favorable opportunity ensued to escape with their cargoes of human beings for America.