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said, " come, let us put our heads together against the King after 
that, when the King heard this, he sent one, not a great man, but 
his own slave, and said, well you will do, go kill all the people, 
all the Aquapims, and Akims, and all ; and so he killed all, and 
after he killed all he came and told him. 
When he sent against Akim, the people in Akim sent word, that 
they told their head men not to vex the King, but they would not 
mind them, so he killed the head people, and the others begged 
his pardon. 
When the King went to fight with the Fantees they sent this 
sauc}^ word — we wdll kill you and your people, and stand on 
you ; then they did not kill one Ashantee captain, but the King 
killed all the Fantee captains and people. They do not stand 
on him. 
That time, after the King fought, all the Fantees sent word, well 
we will serve you, but you must not send more harm to hurt us, 
we don't want to fight more, but to make good friends with you. 
Then the King said, what caboceer lives at Cape Coast and 
Annamaboe, w^hat books they get from the forts, let them send 
all, and then we can be friends. And the King sent word too, if 
my messengers go to Cape Coast fort, and if they bring pots 
of gold, and casks of goods, then I can't take that, hut I must 
have the books. 
After that the King sent word to the Governor of Cape Coast 
and the Governor of Annamaboe, well ! you know I have killed 
all the Fantees, and I must have Adocoo's and Amooney's books, 
and I can make friends with you, good brother and good heart; 
but now they send four ackies, that is what makes the King's heart 
break out when he looks on the book and thinks of four ackies, 
and his captains swear that the Fantees are rogues and want to 
cheat him. When the white men see the Fantees do this, and the 
