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with breaks here and there for some distance past 

 Cape Coast Castle. Behind the lower fort on these 

 hills are three works of modern date, Fort St. Jago, 

 Fort Beckenstein, and the De Veer Redoubt, which 

 command the land approaches. At noon we 

 anchored abreast of Cape Coast Castle, the seat of 

 Government of the Gold Coast, and shortly after- 

 wards Freeman and T landed in the Government 

 canoe, which came for the mail bags. There was 

 a heavy surf breaking, but the Fanti crew were up 

 to their work, and, watching the time, brought us 

 ashore very cleverly upon the crest of a huge 

 billow, which landed us high and dry without the 

 wetting which we had made up our minds we 

 should get. Passing through a gateway we entered 

 the castle, and called upon Governor Andrews, 

 whose quarters were very cool and comfortable, 

 and afterwards lunched with Ross the Colo- 

 nial Secretary, at the mess of the Gold Coast 

 Artillery. There I met with Doctor O'Callaghan, 

 a true son of Erin, flowing with the milk of human 

 kindness, whose innate humour and buoyant spirit 

 had not been dried up even by a residence of two 



