CITY, &c. 021 
/ 500 Slaves. 
2W Cows. 
400 Sheep. 
400 Cotton cloths. 
200 Ditto and silk. 
Takima a smaller proportion of the same kind. 
Coranza is generally excused, from fidelity, and a long series of 
military services, 
Sawee - - - 200 periguins annually. 
Moinsean - - 50 bendas ditto. 
Gaman had paid, (besides all 
large pieces of rock gold,) 100 periguins ditto. 
Akim, Assin, Warsaw, Aowin, &c. &c. were taxed indefinitely 
by crooms. 
Coomassie is built upon the side of a large rocky hill of iron 
stone. It is insulated by a marsh close to the town northwards, 
and but a narrow stream ; half a mile distant from it N.W., and 
60 yards broad; close to it N.E., E., S. E., and S., and about 
100, 20, 70, and 50 yards broad at these points. In many parts 
depth after heavy rains was five feet, and commonly two. The 
marsh contains many springs, and supplies the town with water, 
but the exhalation covers the city with a thick fog morning and 
evening, and engenders dysentery, with which the natives of the 
coast who accompanied us were almost immediately attacked, 
as well as the officers. It is a little extraordinary that we never 
saw a musquito in Ashantee. I could find none but birds eye 
views of the city, which were uninteresting, presenting nothing 
but the thatch of the houses ; it was encircled by a beautiful forest, 
which required more time than I could spare, and a more expres- 
sive pencil to pourtray. Coomassie is an oblong of nearly four 
miles in circumference, not including the suburbs of Assafoo nor 
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