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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
about 35 miles westward of Cape ApoUonia, but a very intelligent 
Ashautee satisfied me this was a mistake, arising probably from 
Seenee being tlie native name of the Ancobra, which is formed by 
one branch, of theTando; a second running w^est ward. The Tando 
is not near so large as the Boosempra, and therefore very unhkely 
to form so large a river as the Assinee ; the western branch may 
possibly run into it. Mr. Meredith^ writing from report without 
sufficiently checking it, has made the Tando and the Chamah or 
Boosempra the same; yet, p. 225, he adds, " the Volta is more 
probably a branch of the Tando, a large river reported as running 
to the eastward, and which the Ashantees are obliged to cross in 
coming to the Coast he did not reflect that he thus laid down a 
river running out of the sea. The Tando, we have seen, is five days 
northward of Coomassie, it rises in some rocky hills called Toofeea, 
near the large town Aenkroo, between the Banda and Inta paths. 
Soko (formerly a province of Gaman) is 11 journies from Coo- 
massie ; and Banda, four beyond, and a little to the eastward ; see 
route No. 8. The first day, Tafoo is reached, a large aboriginal 
Inta town, for, as will be seen in the historical report, the Ashantees 
emigrated, and subjected several Inta districts now forming the 
northern part of their dominions, and trenched considerably on 
that declining kingdom, now entirely at their mercy. If Mr. 
Dalzel had reflected, it would have occurred to him, that the 
Taffoe, Tafoe, or Tafu of Snelgrave (placed so absurdly in his map, 
60 miles west of the mouth of the Volta) and the In-ta* he heard 
of at Dahomey, and confounded with Ashantee, were the same : 
for the In in In-ta is scarcely audible, and only a slight nasal 
sound barely amounting to n, as N-ta ; foo is merely an adjunct 
equal to people or men in our language, affixed in the present 
* This induced me to think that In-ta and Ta-pah, as well as Assiantee might mean 
the same place, as we find of Mahee, Yahon, &c.~Dalzei. 
