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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
King laad heard he was teaching me the Koran, but he wished him 
not to do so, he did not wish me to know how *' to call on God 
but, said Abraham, I shall teach you as much as I can, that vvhen 
you go to your own country you may give the Moors a good name, 
for I told the King you knew Arabic before you saw me, and we 
sometimes spake together in that language. He had a beautiful 
copy of the Koran which he intended to leave me, but the King 
had told him he must have it, that when any trouble came he might 
hold it up to God, and beg his mercy and pardon : but he would 
try and get a small one for me. 
Saturday 22. This morning a slave belonging to the house master 
swore by the King's head that he must kill him to-day. A great 
uproar ensued, while they put him in irons, and they got out the 
family stools and sacrificed fowls and sheep, pouring the blood on 
them to propitiate the wrath of the King from the family. The 
King was then told of it, who said as that was his fetish day he 
could not kill a man that day, but to-morrow he would behead hiin. 
It appears he had connection with one qf his brother's wives, 
who, hearing of it, cautioned him from doing so again, or else he 
would tell the King and make him kill him : he w^as again found 
with the woman, and his brother went to the King to complain. 
Hearing this, and fearing the torture, he swore by the King that 
he must shoot him with eight muskets. The King on being told 
this, said he would put such small shot into the muskets as only to 
wound him, and then he should torture him ; hereby fulfilling his 
own law, which he considers sacred. 
Sunday 23. About 12 o'clock sent for by the King, whom I 
found scolding his sister for disobedience in one of her slaves. 
After sitting some time talking on indifferent subjects, the King 
said he should go to council, about what he was going to say to 
me. Shortly after he sent one of his sons to say his father was 
