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communicating with the Ashantees, and found 
them to be much more courteous and civilized, 
every way superior in intelligence and moral feel- 
ing, to the natives upon the coast. The Ashan^ 
tees, in their turn, shewed the most amicable dis- 
position towards the British ; and the king even 
requested, that a resident of that nation might be 
sent to his court. 
The British have forts on this coast at Apollo- 
nia, Dixcove, Succondee, Commenda, Cape Coast, 
(the principal one,) Anamaboe, Tantumquery, and 
Accra. Those at Winnebah and Whidah, the lat- 
ter of which places is still in the power of the king 
of Dahomy, have been given up. 
