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Abetife Accra Adowa amused Ananse Ankobra river arrived Ashanti Basel Mission boat Bompata boundary BOWLER BOWLER HAT boys bungalow bush called camp Cape Coast Captain carried carriers catch chair chief chop Christiansborg Castle clearing cloth Colony Commissioner Coomassie courtyard dash district dress European eyes face feet Fetish fire forest four fufu GAITERS Gold Coast gold-mining Government Hill ground hair hammock hammock-boys hand Harmattan Haussa head heavy hill husband huts Kwahu land Leopard live loads looked mammie miles mining morning native night o'clock officers Omanhin palaver passed path ponies potto Prestea railway reef river road Sekondi shaft side sitting stool stream struck surf-boat surrounded survey tall Tarkwa theodolite things town trees tropical umbrella usual verandah village walked walls West Africa woman women wooden yards
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Page 127 - Europe who believe that the gold mines are in our power; that we ... have no more to do but to work them by our slaves : though you perfectly know we have no manner of access to these treasures; nor do I believe that any of our people have ever seen one of them : which you will easily credit, when you are informed that the negroes esteem them sacred, and consequently take all possible care to keep us from them.
Page 127 - Sika," or Acanny gold. The third was Akim,f which " furnishes as large quantities of gold as any land that I know, and that also the most valuable and pure of any that is carried away from this coast; it is easily distinguished by its deep colour.
Page 127 - West-Indies, have no more to do but to work them by our Slaves: Though you perfectly know we have no manner of access to these Treasures; nor do I believe that any of our People have ever seen one of them : Which you will easily credit...
Page 95 - Fulling, or or agriculture, and that is chiefly exercifed in the Culture of Rice, which grows here above all other places in an incredible abundance, and is Tranfported hence all the Gold-Coaft over. The Inhabitants in lieu returning full Fraught with Millet, Jammes, Potatoes, and Palm Oyl ; all which are very rare here, for the Soil is naturally moift, and tho' fit to produce Rice, and Fruit-Trees, doth not kindly yield other Fruits.
Page 106 - Pipe thus filled they without ceafing can eafily fmoak out; and they are not put * to hold their Pipe, for being fo long it refts on the Ground. All the In-land Negroes take this Tobacco, but thofe who live amongft us and daily...
Page 106 - Weed ; which yet agrees very well with them. Some of them have Pipes made of Reeds, which are about fix foot long ; to the end of which is fixed a...
Page 193 - June 23 it would be difficult to imagine. " The surroundings of the Fort were wrapped in a dense, clammy, white mist, which deadened and rendered uncanny the sounds made by the refugees as they moved about preparing for departure, the loads balanced on their heads and hanging from their shoulders making them assume grotesque shapes as the rays of a lantern fell upon them for a moment before they were again swallowed up in the mist. The carriers sat shivering on their loads, chilled to the bone, while...
Page 110 - The papays taile rather worfe than better than pompions. There grow multitudes of papay-trees all along the Coaft ; and thefe are of two forts, viz. the male and female, or at leaft they are here fo called, on account that thofe named males bear no fruit...
Page 110 - Some papay-trees run up to the height of thirty foot, which is confiderably more than a man's height. The fruit, or what is properly called the Papay, is about half as big as the cocoa-nut, of an oval...
Page 49 - It was a curious sight—that mixture of black and white ; in the enclosure, the native band in their khaki uniforms ; the black lawyers and doctors in their immaculate English clothes ; the native women, some in European dress...