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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
powder to fight for jou : they did so, and immediately the Com- 
mend as used it to seize 98 Elminas, and sold them as slaves — this 
the King thinks yon will say is very bad. 
The Cape Coast people and the Fantees having joined against 
the Elminas, they sent to tell the King, stating, when he demanded 
the reason, that it was because they had not resisted him when he 
came down against the Fantees ; adding, that the Commendas, 
who were their natural allies before, had now joined their enemies, 
and begging the King to revenge this act of perfidy. The King 
much angered, immediately sent a captain for the purpose of their 
destruction (Yaquokroko,) but the Dutch governor sent to him, 
and then sent to the King to beg him to stop, because the English 
and Dutch being one, it would put shame on his face. 
Col. Torrane by giving up Cheeboo, induced the King to con- 
sider the Cape Coast people as his friends, and they took fetish 
accordingly, but their joining the Fantees afterwards to fight 
against Elmina for assisting the King, has made him distrust 
them always since. 
He considers his favourite nephew as the adopted son of Col. 
Torrane, to whom he gave him, and the Colonel gave him English 
clothes, so he is all the same as a Cape Coast Boy. 
Col. Torrane being dead, he considers his nephew to stand in 
the same relation to you, and that he is therefore the proper 
messenger to send to you about this palaver. 
You must write in your great book, that the King is your good 
friend, that he likes you too much, that he thanks God very much, 
so that every future Governor may read that in the Cape Coast 
Books. 
The mark >^ of Sai Tootoo, King of Ashantee, 
Present. Per T. E. Bowdich. 
Wm. Hutchison. 
Henry Tedlie. 
Coomassie, Jul^ dth, 1817» 
