Ill I'UOCKKPINOS OK TIIK ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



pense : the average might be -Js. At Cape Coast Castle after the 

 heavv rains a great deal of soil is washed down from the rocks to the 

 shore. Old women wash this soil and get Is. <>d. worth of gold pel- 

 day out of it. 



The Ashantis had a most elaborate system of gold weights. They 

 could weigh from 3d. worth of gold up to 6 worth. The smaller 

 quantity was weighed by seeds, the larger by brass weights. These 

 are to be seen in the Anthropological Museum. The gold industry so 

 far as the native is concerned is very nearly a thing of the past, along 

 with their weights and goldsmiths. 



I have only once seen sculpture in stone in Ashanti, although I 

 have reason to believe that there are specimens here and there to be 

 seen and more hidden for safety. What I saw were heads and busts 

 at the foot of a very high tree in a Ju Ju grove between Bompata 

 and Donva. They appeared to me to be Egyptian. I inquired as to 

 their history, but all I could learn was that they had been there as long 

 as the village, and that they came down from the top of the tree. 



The Ashantis generally speaking are not cannibals, but upon 

 several occasions and on good authority I have been told that the Ju 

 Ju men at Apyalium, formerly the royal town of the King of Jaulim, 

 used to eat children on great occasions. The Kroo boys are still 

 cannibals and file their teeth to show that they are. 



The religion of the Ashantis is simple in essence but elaborate in 

 practice. They believe in a Supreme Being God the Creator of all 

 things and who is their last end. They also believe that they are sur- 

 rounded by evil spirits in this life, and that every evil that can come 

 to them is from one or other evil spirit. Sickness, injury, death, fire, 

 destruction of house, crops, in short, any adverse circumstance that 

 can befall one in this life is attributed to an evil-disposed spirit, all of 

 which are antagonistic to the Creator and to the shades of their an- 

 cestors. This is the key to and motive of all religious practice and 

 what is called fetish (Ju Ju). Ju Ju is simply the term or name 

 applied to all pertaining to what is sacred. Ju Ju is not a god as is 

 generally supposed. 



