2i0 - MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
The Hio mao, who gave me the above numerals, spoke of the 
Apaccas as a more powerful northern neighbour, but I never 
heard of them from any other person. 
Yariba must certainly be the Yarba of Imhammed, though he 
described it as 18 or 20 journies from Gonjah towards the N.W., 
for he is hkely to have been incorrect in this, because we have 
proved him to be so, in stating, that Ashantee was the capital of 
Tonouwah, w^hich appears to be a district or town of Dagwumba, 
the people of which kingdom are by no means warlike as he repre- 
sented them, nor have they any notion of taming the elephant : he 
reported that Calanshee was a dependency of Ashantee, whereas 
no Ashantee knows the name ; that Gonjah was 46 journies from 
the coast, when it is but 30. Major Rennell reasonably conceived 
the Yarba of Imhammed to be the Yarra of De Lisle, at the back 
of Sierra Leone, but as this country is not preserved in his own 
map, I presume it cannot be of much consequence, politically or 
commercially, whereas Yariba, indisputably eastward of Kong, is 
always announced to enquirers, both by Moors and Negroes, as a 
very powerful, and much frequented kingdom. Another argument 
is, that all the Moors I saw at Coomassie, were almost ignorant of 
the countries westward, only speaking of those their enquiries for 
the source of the Quolla had made known to them : indeed, I did 
not see one who had travelled westward, or south westward of 
Bambarra, but our Accra Hnguist told me that he had recognised 
a Moor at the Rio Pongos, whom he had seen in Coomassie (when 
sent there on the eve of the second Ashantee invasion) who told 
him that he had been two months travelling from Kong, and 
crossed a very large river. Imhammed's Affow (if not Taffoo, or 
the Inta country) I conceive to be Afflou, a town and district of 
the Krepee or Kerrapay country, and a short walk from the sea by 
Quitta, westward of Yarba, as he says, but more than eight journies. 
