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MISSION TO ASHANTEE, 
Barely four miles eastward of Cape Coast is Moree, and the 
Dutch fort Nassau. Six miles from Moree is Annamaboe, the 
most complete fortification in the country ; five miles thence Cor- 
mantine, the first fort possessed by the English, and built by them 
about the middle of the seventeenth century. It was taken after- 
wards by the Dutch, and being stormed, was almost destroyed by 
the Ashantee army, before it attacked Annamaboe: the position 
is very commanding. Tantumquerry, a small Enghsh fort, is about 
18 miles from Cormantine, (crossing the small river Amissa, an 
hour's walk in-land from which is Mankasim, the capital of the 
Braffoe district of Eantee) the natives call the town Tuam. Eight 
miles from Tantum is the town of Apam, where is a Dutch fort 
and a small river. Eight miles from Apam is Sim pah or Winnebah. 
The people of Simpah are Fantees, but their language is called 
AfFoottoo. They are in the district of Agoona. About nine miles 
from Simpah is the Dutch fort Berracoe, the natives call the town 
Seniah. Attah of Akim laid a contribution on this fort in March 
1811. About 27 miles from Berracoe is Accra, or Inkran, once 
subject to Aquamboo, which people, according to Isert, formerly 
drove them to Popo. Meredith fully describes Accra and the 
environs, but he does not mention that according to the natives the 
Portuguese settled here first, (Isert writes in 1452) and exercising 
the greatest cruelties and enormities, were extirpated by the Accras 
(their town was then situated a little behind the present), who exe- 
cuted the governor and his countrymen, on a spot whence they 
still take the earth to rub a new born child, in commemoration of 
the event. Accra, according to the observations of the Commis- 
sioners, is in 5° 20' N, and 10' W. Mr. Meredith, after quoting 
this observation, placed it in his outline of the coast in 58' K 
Between two and three miles from the Enghsh fort, is Christiansburg 
Castle, the D anish head-quarters. 
