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We will follow* Isert in his route from Accra to the Volta, as he 
travelled it several times. " Two miles from Christiansburg is 
Labbodee, where there was formerly a fort : this is the residence 
of the grand fetish, and the Bishop. Two miles to Pessin, two to 
Temmen, where the Dutch had a small fort, abandoned in 1781, 
two (leaving Nimboe a little in the bush) to Ponee, a deserted Dutch 
fort, now a Dutch factory ; two miles thence (crossing a brakke 
streek or low land, up to the shoulders in the rains, and 300 fathoms 
broad, sometimes called Ponee river) are great and small Pram 
Pram, where the English have a small fort or fortified factory. 
Two long miles thence is Friedensbourg fort at Ningo, the people 
of which speak a different language called Adampee, (the name 
given to their country,) a mixture of Ashantee, Kerrapee, and 
Accra ; it is a republic.'' Behind Adampee is the Crobo mountain, 
the people of which, though but a few hundreds, ha\e hitherto 
baffled the Ashantees, by leaving their croom at the bottom of the 
mountain, which is of great height, rugged, accessible but by one 
narrow path, and with springs of water on the top, whence they 
roll down upon their enemies, the large stones and fragments of 
rock which abound. " From Adampee 1 went in one day to 
* I observe, in a modern publication, Dr. I serfs described as a second visit to Africa, 
under the auspices of the Danish government, encouraged by his reports to attempt 
colonization in Aquapim, and that he died from anxiety and exertion. This Avas not the 
case, it was his first and only visit, the Danes never attempted colonization, and he 
embarked for the West Indies as I have before stated. Having read the above, however, 
I wrote to Dr. Reynhaut, who translated some passages from the Dutch into Latin for 
me, and the following is an extract from his letter in reply. " Quod attinet Iserti in 
Africam reditum, ibique ejus obitum, ficta hssc est fama Verum est juxta Quitam post 
victoriam in Augnaeos populos reportatam, Danos arcem condidisse, cui nomen insigni- 
verunt Prinzenstein ; sed nullse cultural incubuerunt, nec colonias struxerunt, nec minus 
falsum est umquam Isertum in Africae littoras inferiora regis jussu rediisse, colonias ex- 
truendi gratia, nam praeter opus Botanicum quod Florte Guinensis titulo occurrit, 
nullum aliud de illo scriptum existit."" 
