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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
One - 
- Lagen . 
Two 
Inde. 
Three 
Easka. 
Four 
Daager. 
Five - 
- Ohoo. 
Six - 
Araska. 
Seven 
Tooloor. 
Eight 
Weska. 
Nine - 
- Likar. 
Ten - 
- Inagoon. 
The Negroes called Kanem, Kandera ; were well acquainted with 
Doomboo, and spoke much of the kingdom of Asben. 
We will now return to Cape Coast Castle, and seek the best 
descriptive authorities, in aid of the observations which have been 
made by the Commissioners and others, for the maritime geography 
from the river Assinee to Lagos. 
The latitude and longitude of Cape Coast (called by the natives 
Igwa, and in the AfFettoo district) according to Messrs. Ludlam 
and Dawes, the Government Commissioners who surveyed the 
coast in 1810, is 5* 6' N. and 1° 51' W. Elmina, the native name 
of which is Addma, is about seven miles to windward of Cape 
Coast. Twelve miles from Elmina is Commenda, an English fort, 
the town is called by the natives Akatayki, the Dutch fort was 
destroyed in the American war. Nine miles thence is Chama, or 
Assema. at the mouth of the Boosempra. Six hours pull up the 
river, is an island, where Attobra, one of the Warsaw caboceers, 
who supplies the Dutch with canoes, is building a large house to 
retire to ; four hours above which is his croom. Colonel Starren- 
berg was pulled three days up the river in a canoe; his progress 
was much impeded by rocks, and at length arrested by a large 
cataract, which, being considered a powerful fetish by the natives, 
