234 MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
1720. Sai Apokoo, brother of Sai Tootoo, was next placed on 
the stooL Had there been no brother, the sister's son vYOuld have 
been the heir; this extraordinary rule of succession, ex chiding all 
children but those of a sister, is founded on the argument, that if 
the wives of the sons are faithless, the blood of the family is entirely 
lost in the offspring, but should the daughters deceive their hus- 
bands, it is still preserved. 
Sai Apokoo finished the building of Coomassie, and exchanged 
compliments with the King of Dahomey, since which there has 
been no intercourse ; the latter, probably, as a despotic monarch, 
did not wish to give his people any opportunity of contemplating 
the greater freedom of the Ashantee government. 
Sai is the family name of the present race of Kings, some of 
their relatives bearing it as well. Innana is also the cognomen of 
the Kings of Dagwumba. 
Apokoo invading the kingdom of Gaman, Abo, the King, fled 
to Kong, whither the Ashantee army pursued him. The King of 
Kong politically compelled Abo to meet his enemies on the frontier, 
least they might disturb a neutral kingdom. Abo being defeated, 
purchased a peace by presenting large sums of gold to the various 
chiefs, and consenting to an annual tribute. Apokoo next sub- 
jected Takima, whence the Fantees are said to have emigrated, 
and forced a second emigration of the people to Goma^va, at the 
back of Winnebah. He dispossessed the xAkims of the English, 
Dutch, and Danish Accra notes.* The mortifying destruction of 
European records, confines me to the report of the more intelligent 
natives on the subject of these notes, who declare, that the people 
of Accra being deprived of them by the fraud of the Akims, when 
they were assisted by them against the Aquamboes, the Akims 
were in their turn obliged to yield them to their conquerors the 
Ashantees. 
* See the explanatory list of words and the early dispatches in the First Part. 
