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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
Coomassie district (extending to the northern frontier) 50,000 
Dwabin ditto - - , _ _ 35,000 
Marmpon ditto - - - - _ 15,000 
Soota ditto - - ~ - - 15,000 
Kokoofoo ditto - - _ 15,000 
Becqua ditto - - - - _ 12,000 
Adiabin ditto (between Coomassie and the lake) - 12,000 
Aphwagwiasee ditto . - _ _ 10,000 
Daniasee ditto (southwards of Coomassie) - 8,000 
Koontarasie ditto (on the lake) - - - 8,000 
Gamasie ditto - - - - - 8,000 
Amafoo ditto - 6,000 
204,000 
This appears an extravagant force, until we recollect that it is pro- 
bably one fifth of the whole population.* The Romans when they 
were a nation of warriors, which these people are, raised a military 
force equally great in proportion to their population. Barbot 
heard of the Ashantees losing 50,000 men in two actions, an 
exaggeration which, nevertheless, serves to argue great military 
resources. Since the Ashantee invasions, their disposable force 
has been estimated by old residents in public reports, as upwards 
of 150,000. From the above particular statement, the population 
may be estimated at one million, which I beheve is little more than 
half the population of Scotland, the area of which must be more 
than double that of Ashantee, which certainly does not contain 
more than 14,000 square miles. Amanquatea, Quatchie Quofie, 
* " My friend Mr. Morton Pitt, M. P. has proved, by the enumeration of the inha- 
bitants of a country parish in Dorsetshire, that the men of an age capable of bearing arms 
are one fourth of the whole community. Mr. Horneman, if I understand him rightly, 
states the number of actual warriors to be 1500; so that we ought, perhaps, to multiply 
that number by 5, to get nearer to the total amount of the population." Major Rennelk 
