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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
to the same eiFect, and to ask him for payment of what was due on his 
note. I foresaw this would make an uproar ; and on the note being 
handed to me to know what was due on it, w^hen I told the King 
that nothing was on it, he got into the greatest rage I have yet seen 
him in, with the captain who receives the pay. This man had been 
sent down to Accra about three months ago, to receive what pay 
was due, Mr. Bowdich writing to the Danish Governor in Chief to 
know, for the King's satisfaction, what was sent. On his return, 
the latter stated that the King's note was paid up to the ensuing 
Christmas. There being a great deficiency between what was 
stated in the letter, and what the captain produced, he charged 
Mr. Bowdich with mis-stating what was in the letter; Quashie 
A pain tree, the linguist, was sworn on the King's fetish to interpret} 
proper; the Ashantee still insisted, and to clear himself, said the 
book was not paid to Christmas. The King and linguists remem- 
bered this, and when they heard that the note was actually paid to 
the end of the year, every one tried who would be loudest in their 
accusations against him. Apokoo, who is his chief, was loudest 
against him, he said he had used him disrespectfullj^, and never 
gave him any of the dashes he received ; besides he had given the 
lie to an English officer, and at the same time he cheated the King; he 
therefore left him to the mercy of his Majesty. The King said he 
must return him all the gold back he had lent him ; and as for the 
fort at Accra, he might take the pay when he pleased. A hat, 
certainly a bad one, was brought in, and the King asked me if 1 
thought it worth the price charged for it. I replied I was not a 
judge, as such hats were not sent out for us; but if I were, I must 
positively decline interfering in the King's affairs with his servants. 
By degrees the- King worked himself to such a height of passion, 
that throwing his cloth around him, and hastily rising, he ordered 
the captain's arrest. The King's sons seized on him, and he stood 
