HISTORY. 
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wards displaced by the diet, Adoo, the last King of the BrafFoos, despoiling all his sub- 
jects of their most valuable property, and countenancing the individuals of his family in 
the same assumption and violation, without any regard to persons ; they were all seized, 
on his death, by a simultaneous rising of the people, and sold off the coast as slaves, to 
get rid of the race, Adookoo, one of the leading men, was then called to the care of the 
stool, with the title of caboceer only, it being still considered as an interregnum, but he 
exercised the same supremacy and privileges which the King had done, and was acknow- 
ledged by the whole country. During his retreat and wanderings in the bush, after 
several defeats by the Ashantees, the Fantee towns have assumed many political and 
judicial rights before centered in Mankasim ; but Adookoo is now expected to summon 
them all, and re-establish the ancient order of things, which they deem too sacred to think 
of resisting. It was not the BrafFoos, or the whole people of that district, Avho had the 
privilege of living abroad at the public expense, and who took whatever they pleased of 
the property of others, as Mr. Meredith has stated ; but the state officers of that district 
called Brofoos, who acquired that name from the hide in which the tobacco is rolled, 
being formed into a seat peculiar to them, never using a wooden stool. They were the 
executors, and not the organs of the law, and always sat to the right and left of Adookoo, 
but had no voice. The number was twelve, and the, dignity immemorially hereditary in 
as many families. These men were allowed to take whatever they pleased at home and 
abroad, but since Adookoo's misfortunes, and inability to support them^ they have been 
content to beg for their tithes in the large towns, and only exercise their rapacity in the 
small crooms of their own district. 
