and Inhabitants of the Gold Coast. 76 



or expose them for sale the moment the breath is out of their 

 bodies,) all occur on these different authorities in the same 

 neighbourhood, if not in the same spot. 



There can be no doubt then, that these nations, found almost 

 precisely where Ptolemy has placed his Ethiopes Anthropophagi, 

 are the descendants of the savage Ethiopians of Herodotus. 



Having thus separated or disposed of the barbarous Ethio- 

 pians, by identifying them with the cannibal nations, still re- 

 taining such of their customs as are briefly recorded, and 

 found in the same geographical situation, I will return to the 

 Ashantees, whom I have considered to be the civilized Ethio- 

 pians of Herodotus and Diodorus, pressed westward by the 

 Egyptian emigrants, (by an intercourse, with whom they never- 

 theless acquired the arts, manners, and superstitions, which 

 now astonish us,) and afterwards driven, or emigrating still 

 further westward, by the sweeping expedition of Ptolemy 

 Evergetes. 



The Ashantees, and their inland neighbours, must have again 

 been disturbed from time to time by the several emigrations of 

 the Carthaginians, and other nations of the Mediterranean, 

 whom Mr. Buache, in his researches for the construction of a 

 map of Africa, for Ptolemy, has at once discovered, by the 

 identity of the names, in the neighbourhood of the Mediter- 

 ranean and south of the Niger. The Mimaces, for instance, 

 are laid down by Ptolemy, a little south of Tripoli, and again 

 a little west of the modern Yarriba. The Nabatree, close behind 

 Algiers, and also where Dahomey now exists. The Dolopes, 

 in the present dominion of Tripoli, and again, where we expect 

 to find the negro kingdom of Kulla. The Blemmyi we find in 

 three places, on the Arabian Gulf; near Rees Ageeg, on the 

 eastern frontier of Abyssinia ; and south of the line, a little 

 above the track of the traders from Loango to Nimeamay. 

 Many other instances might be adduced of the same names 

 being found at remote distances north and south of the Niger, 

 whilst other nations, as the Samamicii, on the shore of the 

 Mediterranean, near Lebida, do not appear in Ptolemy's time 



