GLOSSARY. 
Croom. A town or village. 
Caboceer. A chief or magistrate. 
Pynin. An elder or counsellor. 
Palaver. A dispute, debate, argument, or suit. 
Book or Note. A certificate of a monthly pension of the African Committee, paid in trade 
to the Eantee Kings and Chiefs in the neighbourhood of the British settle- 
ments, in consideration of their attachment, influence, and services ; which 
Books or Notes were claimed by the King of Ashantee, as his by right of 
conquest. 
Stool. Throne, seat in council, inheritance. 
Custom. A festival, carnival, public ceremony, funeral rite. 
Panyar. To seize or kidnap. 
A Benda. Two ounces four ackies, or £9. currency. 
A Periguin. Two ounces eight ackies, or £lO, currency. 
An Ackie. Five shillings currency. 
A Tokoo. Ten pence. 
A Dash. A present. 
Fetish. A charm, amulet, deity. Any supernatural power ok influence. Any thing 
sacred. ^^T, 4- ' 
