MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 23 
encompassed them ; they were the sites of large and populous 
crooms destroyed in the Ashantee invasions. About nine o'clock 
we discovered a few miserable sheds, which the noise of the 
bearers, who had long arrived, convinced us to be Accomfodey. 
We had passed two small rivers, the Aprinisee and Annuia, both 
running to the Boosempra. This day's distance was 11 miles, and 
the courses N. -f N. b W. -J. The lat. and long, by account 5° 49' 
K and 1° 55' W. Thermometer 11 a. m. 80. 
We marched early the next morning. The scenery of the forest, 
excepting on the banks of the small rivers, was very naked of 
foliage, and only presented a harsh and ragged confusion of stems 
and branches intricately blended. We passed a small river soon 
after leaving Accomfodey, bearing the same name and running 
eastward ; and shortly after another, six yards wide and two feet 
deep (the Berrakoo), running F. E. to the Boosempra. The path 
was sometimes trackless, and appeared to have been little used 
since the invasion of 1807 ; several human skulls were scattered 
through this dark solitude, the reHcs of the butchery. We halted 
about two o'clock by Mr. James's direction, and passed the night 
in the forest This day's distance was eight miles, the prevailing 
courses N. i, N.bW. -J, N.N.W.i, N.bE. f The latitude and 
longitude by account 5° 53' N. 1° 55' W. Thermometer 2 p. m. 
88f, 7 p.m. 82f. 
The next morning we passed some sheds, on the sites of the 
crooms Dansamsou and Meakirring. At the end of five miles and 
a quarter, the herbage to the right disclosed the cheerful reflections 
of the sun from the water ; and w^e descended through a small 
vista of the forest, to the banks of the Boosempra or Chamah river. 
Nothing could be more beautiful than its scenery : the bank on the 
^outh side was steep, and admitted but a narrow path ; that on the 
north sloping ; on which a small Fetish house, under the shade of 
