TRADE. 
331 
Cape Coast. 
Articles. 
(a) Silk, India 
— — Fezzan 
(&) Sarstracunda 
(c) Glasgow Dane 
(d) Romal 
{e) Guinea Stuff 
(y*) Silesia 
Dagwumba white Cotton 
Rum • • • • • 
{g) Tobacco, 
Portuguese 
■ < Inta . 
(Ji) Gunpowder • • • 
Iron 
Lead 
Flints 
(t) Spanish Dollar . 
(Jc) Sandals 
Cushions 
Marrowa Locks 
s. 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
5 
5 
d. 
per 
Quantity. 
Piece. 
Gallon. 
Roll. 
I Barrel. 
Bar. 
100 
ea. 
Coomassie. 
10 
s. 
2 
5 
5 
15 
15 
5 
15 
5 
10 
d. 
n 
6 
11 
I 
A- 
Quantity, 
1 span. 
I fathom. 
1 span. 
1 hdkchf. 
piece. 
sq. yard, 
dram, 
roll, 
span, 
lb. 
1 charge, 
bar. 
f inch, 
each. 
pair, 
ea. 
Profit, 
per Cent. 
175 
100 
400 
75 
20 
33 
33 
100 
400 
75 
150 
400 
75 
75 
600 
100 
100 
100 
Sallafichcb and Yahndi. 
o 
O • 
d. 
Quantity. 
Profit. 
1 
• a 
m ■ 
. . 
2 
6 
sq. yard. 
lb. 
3 
* • 
• • 
bar. 
200 
5 
10 
2 
6 
pair, 
ea. 
{a) The red taffetas (11 yards in each piece) are unravelled by the Ashantees, and 
wove into the cloths of their own manufacture : they unravel a few of the fancy silks, but 
these are generally bought for wear, though they prefer those from Fezzan for that pur- 
pose, because the colours are more shewy. Coarse thick scarves are also brought from the 
interior, equal in substance to a double wove ribbon. One ackie a span was the price in 
the public market, where it was retailed in these small quantities, for the convenience of 
the weavers, who did not require, or could not afford to purchase more : the price of a 
piece was uncertain, as the person who could purchase so much, generally sent a trusty 
servant to the foreign market, and seldom bought of the traders but when they were ne- 
cessitated to sell at little more than prime cost. The richest silks, I saw, were worn by 
the Moors, who had bought them at Yahndi and Houssa.* Reckoning nine inches to a 
span, there are eight spans in a fathom, which is the Ashantee measure ; but the fathom 
of Inta and Dagwumba, contains only six spans. Even if the Ashantee ti-aders give 
twenty shillings a fathom, in barter of boossee, salt, rum, iron, &c.; it is considerably 
* Since my return to England I have seen some silk brought from Aleppo, and manu- 
factured there, precisely resembling these, which were frequently enriched by gold threads 
interwoven. 
