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MISSION TO -ASHANTEE. 
Six - - - Orooba 
Seven - - - RaggimiO(5moo 
Eight - - - Ennanakee 
Nine - - - Enogobm 
Ten - _ - Hegoom 
They do not possess a single manufacture, depending for all their 
comforts and conveniences on the superior ingenuity of their in- 
land neighbours, and the supplies of shipping. They plant but 
handfuls of corn, and rear a few goats and fowls. Cotton grows 
spontaneously. They make a good black dye from the mangrove 
and ebony shavings. They reduce the red wood to a very soft 
powder, by breaking a soft species of stone, and sprinkhng the 
finest particles of it on a flat piece of red wood, which they rub vio- 
lently against another flat piece ; the mixed powders are then thrown 
into water, and that of the wood floating on the surface is strained 
and dried. They rub children with this powder for cutaneous 
eruptions. 
The African Ourang-outan (Pithecus Troglodites) is found 
here, the one I sslw was two feet and a half high, but said to be 
growing. I offered a fair price for it, considering they are not rare 
there, and would not give more when I heard of one being already 
in England. The native name is Inchego : it had the cry, visage, 
and action of a very old man, and was obedient to the voice of its 
master ; its agony on espying the panther on board was inconceiv- 
able.* There is a curious variety of monkeys. The favourite and 
* This panther or leopard, was sent to the Governor-in-Chief by the King of Ashan- 
tec, and wais so perfectly tame as never to be tied up, but strolled at liberty through 
the apartments, playing with the servants and children. It was presented to the Duchess 
of York, and died at Exeter 'Change, a short time after it landed, of an inflammation on 
the lungs. The extraordinary playfulness and good humour of the animal, and the pre- 
servation of its health and tameness during a four months voyage, (during the colder 
