SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE MISSIONS. 459 
discoveries, adjusted and embodied in one large chart) for for- 
wardance to England. 
All Residents and Conductors of Missions, should be provided 
with small copying apparatuses, so that they might forward their 
original dispatch, and one duplicate, to Cape Coast, by two diffe- 
rent opportunities, always retaining the other copy, in case of 
accident, or until the receipt were acknowledged. 
If it could be afforded, a medical officer should afterwards be 
added to the more important Residencies, to attach and relieve the 
natives. 
Botanical and Mineralogical excursions, (taking sextants, tele- 
scopes, and barometers,) into Ahanta, Aowin, Warsaw, Akim, and 
Aquapim, small surveys, &c. &c. should be undertaken, ad interim, 
not only from the smallness of the expense and the great compara- 
tive benefit, (as we know nothing of these countries beyond their 
position,) but to qualify the younger officers (of congenial disposi- 
tion and acquirement,) for future missions and residencies. 
The young men soliciting appointments in England, should be 
required to make themselves acquainted with the grammar of the 
Arabic language, and practical astronomy, before they receive their 
commissions ; and one or two intelligent Moors from the interior, 
should be invited, by a pay, to settle at Cape Coast Castle, to per- 
fect these officers in writing and speaking the language. The 
Fantee language should also be cultivated^ as it is a dialect of the 
Ashantee. • 
The soldiers of the settlements should no longer be enhsted from 
the mulattoes and Fantees of the neighbourhood, making the 
present paltry force the more inefficient, from local and family 
attachments, inseparable from human nature, and preventing their 
acting cordially, if at all, on emergencies for the rescue of human 
victims, or the punishment of their relatives and townsmen, for 
