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to be splendidly furnished. The Ashantee language is spoken very 
commonly in Booroom, but the vernacular numerals are 
One - - Ekoo. 
Two - Enoo, 
Three - Essa. 
Four - Enna. 
Five - - Annoo. 
Six - - Essea. 
Seven - Assoono. 
Eight - Aquiay. 
Nine - - Akonno. 
Ten - - Edoo. 
The tenth day the Adirri or Volta is crossed, more than a mile 
wide, but much interrupted by rocks, and described to be full of 
hippopotami (which they call sea elephants,) and alligators. This 
river divides Booroom from Inta, Sallagha being one day's long 
march from it. Calculating the 17 journies to Sallagha at 15 miles 
each, the course as N.E. by E. and supposing two thirds to be 
made good on the horizontal distance, according to our own 
experience, which gives 170 B. equal to 147 G. miles, Sallagha 
will lie in latitude 7° 56' N., and longitude 9" W. As a check 
upon this position, it will be necessary to follow the Adirri or 
Volta as far as the natives navigate it from Adda, where it is called 
the Flou (as the falls of the Senegal.) Isert's report may be 
interesting as an introduction. 
" The people of Adda think it derogatory to cultivate land, and 
live by fishing, and making salt, which they sell to the people of 
the Interior. The Volta has no breakers, and therefore may be 
presumed to be deep.'" This is an extraordinary mistake ; Dalzel 
says there are high breakers. Colonel Starrenberg (of Engineers) 
at Elmina Castle, who went about 60 miles up the Volta, accom- 
