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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
the superiors exchanged visits at their houses ; the one visited 
always accompanied the other some distance along the street on 
his wa3% where they exchanged blessings, and parted. The slaves 
who carried their small umbrella's over their heads, seemed 
thoroughly jaded by this incessant parading. 
The King regretted in one of his visits about this time, that they 
were not more frequent ; he said, our conversation entertained him 
more than any thing else, because it told him of so many things 
black men never heard of, but when he wished to see us on that 
account, his great men checked him, and said, it did not become 
him as a great King to want us, but that he should only send his 
compliments, see us, and make us wait a long time when he sent 
for us to the palace. 
