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English officers bring him this four ackies, it makes him get up 
very angry, but he has no palaver with white men. 
All Eantee is his, all the black mans country is his ; he hears that 
white men bring all the things that come here ; he wonders they 
do not fighl with the Fantees, for he knows they cheat them. Now 
he sees white men, and he thanks God and his fetish for it. 
When the English made Apollonia fort he fought with the 
Aowins, the masters of that country, and killed them ; then he said 
to the caboceer, I have killed all your people, your book is mine ; 
the caboceer said, true ! so long as you take my town, the book 
belongs to you. 
He went to Dankara and fought, and killed the people, then he 
said; give me the book you get from Elmina, so they did, and 
now Elmina belongs to him.* 
The English fort at Accra gave a book to an Akim caboceer, 
called iVboigin Adjumawcon. The King killed him and took the 
book. The Dutch fort gave a book to another Akim caboceer^ 
Curry Curry Apam. The Danish fort gave a book to another 
Akim caboceer, Arrawa Akim ; the King killed all and took their 
books. 
This King, Sai, is young on the stool, but he keeps always in 
his head what old men say, for it is good, and his great men and 
linguists tell it him every morning. The King of England makes 
three great men, and sends one to Cape Coast, one to Annamaboe, 
and one to Accra ; Cape Coast is the same as England. The King 
gets two ounces from Accra every moon, and the English wish to 
give him only four ackies for the big fort at Cape Coast, and the 
same for Annamboe ; do white men think this proper ? 
When the King killed the Dankara caboceer and got two ounces 
from Elmina, the Dutch Governor said, this is a proper King, we 
* The King always spoke of the acts of all his ancestors as his own. 
