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fix days travelling, from GDRjali towards the Coaft, the She- 
reef had travelled only the firil ten days, to the City of Kalan- 
iliee, a dependency of the Kingdom of Toiinouwah ; the capital 
of which, according to his report, is Assentai (the Afliante of 
D'Anville) fituated midway between Kalanlhee and the fea 
coaft ; tliat is, eighteen days journey from each. The Shereef 
alfo reports, tliat there is no communication between tliis coafl: 
(which we may fappofe to be the Gold Coafl) and the country 
of Gonjah : for that the King of AfTentai, Vv4io poilefTes the fpace 
between, prohibits his Inland Neighbours from paffing through 
his country. 
But Mr, NoRR I s, a gentleman who relided many years in Why- 
dah, &;c. reports differently: for he fays, that there are other 
States, (that is, the Fantees, and their confederates) lying between 
Affentai and the fea ; and that the AfTentais have often attempted, 
but without fuccefs, to open a communication with the Coafl. 
To return to the route from Caflma to Gonjah. There are 
between them fome extenfive kingdoms or flates, moft of which 
appear to preferve their antient religion. I have generally 
marked the progrefs of the Mahomedan Religion, by a crefcent ; 
and the Caffre States by an arbitrary mark of a different kind^ 
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