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owing to their historic and ethnical importance, the reader may 

 be glad to have here subjoined a somewhat complete tabulated 

 scheme : 



TRIBES OF TSHI 



AND GA SPEECH 



Gold Coast 



Ashanti 



Safwhi 



Denkera 



Bekwai 



Nkoranza 



Adansi 



Assin 



Wassaw 



Ahanta 



Fanti 



Agona 



Akwapim 



Akim 



Akwamu 



Kwao 



Ga 



TRIBES OF EWE 



SPEECH 

 Slave Coast West 



Dahomi 



Eweawo 



Agotine 



Anfueh 



Krepe 



Avenor 



Awuna 



Agbosomi 



Aflao 



Ataklu 



Krikor 



Geng 



Attakpami 



Aja 



Ewemi 



Appa 



TRIBES OF YORUBA 



SPEECH 



Slave Coast East 

 and Niger Delta 

 Yoruba 

 Ibadan 

 Ketu 

 Egba 

 Jebu 

 Remo 

 Ode 

 Ilorin 

 Ijesa 

 Ondo 

 Mahin 

 Benin (Bini) 

 Kakanda 

 Wari 

 Ibo 

 Efik 



The Ga of the Volta delta are here bracketed with the Tshi 

 because the late Col. Ellis, our great authority on the Guinea 

 peoples 1 , considers the two languages to be distantly connected. 

 He also thinks there is a foundation of fact in the native traditions, 

 which bring the dominant tribes Ashanti, Fanti, Dahomi, Yoruba, 

 Bini from the interior to the coast districts at no very remote 

 period. Thus it is recorded of the Ashanti and Fanti, now 

 hereditary foes, that ages ago they formed one people who were 

 reduced to the utmost distress during a long war with some 



1 The services rendered to African anthropology by this distinguished officer 

 call for the fullest recognition, all the more that somewhat free and unacknow- 

 ledged use has been made of the rich materials brought together in his classical 

 works on 77;,? Tshi-speaking Peoples (1887), The Ewe-speaking Peoples (1890), 

 and The Yoruba-speaking Peoples (1894). 



