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infancy of African language to all names of countries, as if we 
always said the Scotchmen or Irishmen, instead of the Scotch and 
Irish. The Ofim is crossed one day beyond Tafoo at its croom 
Ofeesoo, the Tando four journies beyond at Tandosoo. Takima 
is reached the eighth day, whence the Fantees are reported, by 
tradition, to have emigrated, and there is yet but Httle difference 
in the languages. 
Sixteen journies N. N. E. of Coomassie is Boopee (which I have 
placed accordingly in 8° 42' N. and 1° 19' W.) the frontier town 
of Inta, liitherto confounded with Ashantee, than which it is more 
populous and more civilized. The Moorish influence has been 
long established there, and almost all its caboceers affect to profess 
that faith. The river Adirri, which we shall presently identify with 
the Volta, is crossed four hours southward of Boopee, and is 
described as about 120 yards broad ; it rises eight journies N.W. 
of Boopee, in a large mountain called Kondoongooree^ one of the 
mountains of Kong, which were distinctly and invariably reported 
not to be a chain, but frequently and individually scattered, from 
Kong eastward. Seven journies from Coomassie, on the Inta 
route, is the smaller kingdom Coranza (probably the Corisseno of 
the old maps) the people of which are of the same origin as the 
Ashantees by tradition, but, as the King himself assured me, of 
much more genius and aptitude. Three journies from Boopee is 
Daboia, the second town of Inta. The first journey is to Minsiroo, 
where hons are numerous ; the second to Moronko, the inhabitants 
of which are so fearful of being carried off as slaves by the Ashantee 
traders (who travel in great numbers) that they have no doors to 
their houses, but ascending by a ladder, which they immediately 
draw up, they enter through the thatch. Close to Moronko is a 
river, about as large as the Boosempra, called Adiffofoo. Pahmee, 
three journies south eastward of Daboia, and Yabo which I cannot 
