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lent capabilities, and are of pleasing manners : they speak different lan- 

 guages ; that of the Bullom race extending as far along the coast as Shebar. 



Guinea. From the Sherboo Isle to Cape Palmas extends a low coast, 

 termed the Grain, or Pepper, Coast. The interior is occupied by the 

 Quojas tribes ; on the coast are the Vy-berkomas ; the Quoja-berkomas, 

 the Galas, the Hondo, the Curras, and the Folgias. Cape Palmas is 

 the territory of the Kroos. These races are all of the true Negro stock. 



Between Cape Palmas and the Cape of Three Points extends the 

 Ivory Coast, occupied by a rude Negro race, termed Quaquas : the inland 

 territories are inhabited by the Buntakoos, a powerful and numerous people. 

 From the Cape of Three Points to the Rio Volta extends the Gold Coast. 

 The chief tribes of the coast and interior region are, the Ashantees, the 

 Fantees, the Aminas, the Warsaws, the Akims, Assims, and Aquapims ; 

 still more interiorly are the Intas. According to Bowditch, the Intas 

 are the original stock, whence the Fantees, the Ashantees, and the rest 

 have branched out. Their languages are dialects of the Inta ; and the 

 tradition of the various tribes refers to Inta as the source from which they 

 emigrated. It would seem that neither the Fantees nor the Ashantees 

 have a thoroughly Negro physiognomy more particularly the Ashantees. 

 According to Bowditch, " the men of Ashantee are very well made, 

 but not so muscular as the Fantees ; their countenances are frequently 

 aquiline : the women are generally handsomer than those of Fantee ; but 

 it is only among the higher orders that beauty is to be found ; and among 

 them, free from all labour and hardship, I have not only seen the finest 

 figures, but, in many instances, regular Grecian features, with brilliant 

 eyes, set rather obliquely in the head," the physiognomy being rather 

 Indian than African. 



The Acras constitute another nation inhabiting the Gold Coast : they 

 are distinct from the branches of the Inta race, speak a language peculiar 

 to themselves, and are genuine Negroes. To the Gold Coast succeeds 

 the Slave Coast, extending to the Benin river, peopled by the Whidahs, the 

 Papaas, the Ardrahs, the Mahas, and the Dahameh, or Foy, tribes ; respect- 

 ing which, little is accurately known : they are said to speak dialects of one 

 common language, and to resemble each other in habits, manners, and 

 person. They have the Negro stamp of countenance, are tall and robust, 

 but of black hue, less pure and glossy than that of the Negroes of the 

 districts previously enumerated. 



Of the natives of Benin Biafra, the Island of Fernando Po, and the 

 Gaboon Coast, little seems to be known. A race termed Eboes, or Ibos, 

 tenant the inland country on the banks of the Quorra ; and a race called 

 Mokos, the district of old Calabar ; behind which, according to Barbot, 

 are the Hackous Negroes ; of whom numbers were, in his day, brought 

 down to Calabar, to be sold as slaves, for transportation to the West Indies. 



