104 1'ROUKKDIXGS OF THK ANATOMICAL AM) ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



27 Til FKIJWAUY, 1904. 



Professor R, W. RKID, M.D., F.R.C.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. F. W. Moir, M.B., Medical Officer of the Ashanti Gold Fields 

 Corporation and of the Colonial Office, delivered a lecture on the 

 people of Ashanti, and exhibited a number of curiosities of Ashanti 

 manufacture, including gold weights, jujus, drums, carving and 

 pottery, all of which he presented to the Anthropological Museum. 



The meeting concluded with a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Moir for his interesting lecture. 



THE PEOPLE OF ASHANTI. 



By Mr. F. W. Mom, M.B., Medical Officer of the Ashanti Gold Fields Corpora- 

 tion and of the Colonial Office. 



Ashanti is on the Gold Coast of West Africa, The whole of that 

 country was generally designated as Guinea. On the west side is the 

 Ivory Coast, belonging to France, and on the south-east is Dahomey, 

 again belonging to France. To the north is Togoland, belonging to 

 Germany. The principal ports from west to east (in the Gulf of 

 Guinea) are Axim, Sekondi, Cape Coast Castle, and Accra, Until 

 quite recently Cape Coast Castle was the chief port for traders in 

 rubber, cocoa, kolo, palm oil, gold dust, etc. Swanzy Bros., who are 

 very old traders on the coast, were asked by the Colonial Office how 

 much gold had been exported from Cape Coast Castle in their time, 

 so far as they could tell. They replied that they could only speak 

 for themselves, and that for the past hundred years they had exported 

 2,000,000 ounces of gold dust got by trading with the natives. T 

 may mention that the price or equivalent given was 7'2s. per ox. 

 in silver or goods. 



