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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
British Residencies, Coomassie, Yahndi, or Dahomey ; for as there 
are many officers to spare at Cape Coast, the expressed wish of 
the latter monarch should be immediately gratified, and our inter- 
course renewed by a Residency. See note, p, 340. 
I think all the objects of the Dagwumba mission could be 
effected in four months ; when I should feel impatient to visit the 
river Gaboon, for the purpose of penetrating to the Ogooawai, and 
going as far up it as I might with prudence. See p. 436. The 
discovery of so large a river in this situation is very important. 
Arrangements could probably be made at Eninga or Okota 
(p429. ) for the guarantee of an after mission to Asheera: also for 
one from Gaboon to Kaylee; and, which is most important, for 
the south-eastern navigation (from Adjoomba, p. 431) of the branch 
of the Ogooawai running through Tanyan into the Congo. 
But there is another enterprise which should not be forgotten, 
the navigation of the Lagos river to the highest point, (p. 224) and 
a visit to Kosie, (p. 225,)a Residency at which court would doubt- 
less lead to a similar estabhshment in the powerful and commercial 
kingdom of Yarriba. See p. 209- 
The Residents at the various courts, who, as I have impressed 
before, should be young men of acquirement, patience, and ad- 
dress, should receive occasional instructions from head quarters, 
directing their enquiries and observations to the geographical and 
scientific desiderata, more pecuharly belonging to or expected 
from their different neighbourhoods, which would be suggested 
from the closer study of these subjects by the individual at the 
head of a department of discovery at head quarters, and also by the 
scientific Societies in England according to their pecuhar pursuits. 
The Residents should make quarterly reports, accompanied by 
specimens of natural history, to be digested into one annual report 
at head quarters, (with the various geographical improvements and 
