POPULxlTION, &c. 
BIT 
Odumata, and Apokoo's forces alone amounted to 25,000. The 
contingencies at command froni tributaries, (21 in number) are too 
indefinite to attempt to detail. Neither Inta or Dagwumba furnish 
any, the Ashantees pretending to despise their troops too much to 
use them. The following, which are known to be pretty correct, 
have generally been the first called into action : 
Coranza 10,000 
Assin - 8,000 
Takima - 6,000 
Dankara - 5,000 
Warsaw - 7,000 
Booroom - 12,000 
Sawee - - 4,000 
Akim - 4,000, before their later destructive revolts 16,000 
Aquapim, &c. 1,000 
Though polygamy is tolerated to such an excess amongst the 
higher orders, I do not think, from observation, that the proportion 
of women to men is two to one. Most of the lower order of free- 
men have but one wife, and very few of the slaves (the greater 
proportion of the mihtary force) any. The following calculation is 
the only one I can think of, and it supports my impression after 
five months residence. 
204,000 Men able to bear arms, about one-fifth of the 
whole population - - - 1,000,000 
101,000 Or one-fourth, children under ten years of age 
as found in Great Britain. 
50,000 Boys above that age not capable of bearing arms. 
7,000 Or one in about 28 incapacitated by old age or 
accidents, as found in Great Britain. 
362,000 Males 362,000 
Females 638,000 
