AGRA — AQUAMBOE. 
tingiiisbes the softer sex, accompanied her brother 
to Aquapim, for the purpose of instructing the 
natives in needle-work, cotton-spinning, and other 
branches of female industry. 
The district of Acra, which contains Aquapim, 
is subject to the king of Aquamboe, whose mari- 
time territory is very inconsiderable, though one 
of the most powerful princes on the coast of Gui- 
nea. The Aquamboans are a bold martial race 
of men, and, like the other Coromantyn negroes, 
as the natives of the Gold Coast are denominat- 
ed, extremely addicted to war, in w^hich, from 
the fluctuating nature of their government, they 
are continually engaged. Their chief exercises 
unlimited despotism, and hence the proverbial 
saying on the coast, that at Aquamboe there are 
only two classes of men, the royal family and the 
slaves. The Aquamboans are formidable to ali 
their neighbours, though frequently engaged in 
intestine dissensions. The Acranese formerly 
composed an independent state, but were con- 
quered by the Aquamboans in 1680, when the 
greater part of the nation, with their king, emigra- 
ted to Little Popo. On the west of Aquamboe 
lies the powerful state of Akim, sometimes deno- 
minated Akam, Achem, and Accany, which oc- 
cupies almost all the interior of the Gold Coast, 
and is supposed by the natives of the coast to 
extend to Barbary. Akim, or Accany, was for^ 
