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carving of the left hand window is cased in silver, of the right hand, 
in gold. The two men are playing at Worra. The King made 
frequent enquiries about the architecture of England, of which we 
gave him some idea by drawings. He was very fond of referring 
to a project ascribed to Sai Cudjo, and which he declared he 
would carry into effect directly the Gaman war was over. This 
was to build a house for his own immediate residence, roofed with 
brass pans, beaten into flat surfaces, and laid over an ivory frame 
work appearing within. The windows and the doors to be cased 
in gold, and the door posts and pillars of ivory. Whether the 
Moors originated or encouraged this extravagance by the descrip- 
tions in their tales, for some of the stories of the Arabian Nights 
were commonly in their mouths, or whether it was the scheme of 
his own disposition, prone to magnificence and novelty, the King 
dwelt ardently on the intention, and by their frequent conversa- 
tions on the subject, his chiefs appeared scarcely less anxious for 
the execution than himself. He meditated great improvements 
and embelhshments in his capital, on his return from the war, when 
it was intended that every captain should be presented with an 
extraordinary sum out of the public treasury, for adorning or enlarg- 
ing his house. The ruined streets between Asafoo and Bantama 
were to be rebuilt, and the six or seven small crooms between 
Coomassie and Baramang, (the King's countr}^ residence,) were 
to be pulled down, and the inhabitants to occupy a wide street to 
extend from the city to that croom. This was the darling design 
of the King; he had already made a sound, broad, and almost di- 
rect road, and numerous labourers were continuing to bring it as 
near as possible to a straight line. 
The Ashantee loom is precisely on the same principle as the 
English ; it is worked by strings held between the toes ; the web is 
never more than four inches broad. A weaver is represented in 
