WADSTROM-^ISERT. ^93 
1701, " we meet with kingdoms whose monarchs 
" are peasants, towns that are built of nothing 
" but reeds, sailing vessels formed out of a single 
" tree : — where we meet with nations who live 
without care, speak withoyt rule, transact bu- 
" siness without writing, and walk about without 
** clothes : — ^people, who live partly in the water 
^' like fish, and partly in the holes of the earth 
" like worms, which they resemble in nakedness 
" and in^nsibility." The length of the river 
Mesurado is unknown, but it originates in a rich 
country, which the negroes term Alam, or the 
Country of God. 
What the benevolent Wadstrom was unable to 
accomplish, was effected by the Danes, through 
the indefatigable exertions of Dr Isert. The 
mass of information concerning Africa which hq 
had accumulated, appeared to be so interesting 
to the Danish ministry, that he was directed to 
return, to make observations on the country. 
His report was so favourable, that he was then 
empowered to pitch upon an eligible situation for 
a colony, and to make the experiment, if he 
should deem it to be practicable. Dr Isert in- 
tended to have made his first attempt on a large 
and beautiful island in the river Volta; but, 
of a Voyage to the kingdom of Issini, or Assinee, on the Gold 
Coast of Guinea, with a description of the country, the temper, 
manners, and religion of the natives. 
