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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
unfavourable to them. I worked the double altitudes, invariably 
by Dr. Pemberton's rule in Keith's trigonometry, which requires 
no assumed latitude, and is in all cases accurate. 
Mr. James having determined to rest the next day at Kicki- 
wherree, we did not proceed until Saturday the 3rd of May. We 
passed through a small river close to the town, called the Ading, 
six yards wide and two feet deep ; and soon after a second, the 
Animiasoo, nine yards wide, and three feet deep, both running to 
the Boosempra ; close to the latter was a large croom of the same 
name, the seat of CheboO's government. Pagga and Atobiasee 
were also large crooms near each other, and within four miles of 
Kickiwherree. At Atobiasee was a small river called Prensa, five 
yards wide, and two feet deep, which ran E.S.E. to the Boosempra : 
two miles thence we came to Becquama, a very old croom, with a 
river nine yards wide, called Prapong, running E. by S. to the 
Boosempra ; and at the end of nine miles we halted at Asharaman, 
a small croom on an eminence, where the Assins under Apootey 
and Cheboo, first engaged the Ashantees in 1807- There was a 
small plot of corn near this croom, the first w^e had seen since we 
left Payntree, though every croom was surrounded by a tract of 
cultivated land, or plantation of plantains. The path continued 
through forest. Distance 8 miles. Courses N. Latitude by 
observation, 5° 59' 20". Longitude by course and distance 
1° 57' 40" W. Thermometer 6 a. m. 76, p. m. 89- 
The next day we passed through Ansa, a large croom, where 
Amoo had governed ; north-west of which, at a little distance, was 
Aboiboo, the residence of his enemy Apootey. A small river near 
Ansa, called Parakoomee, eleven yards wide, and three feet deep, 
ran south to a larger, called Ofim or Foom, which rises six days 
noi-thward of Coomassie, and falls into the Boosempra some miles 
westward of our crossing, the path was very swampy, and we 
