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APPENDIX. 
The king had thought fit to recal the letter which had 
been written by prince Ansa to Mr. Ussher as having 
contained vague and clumsy expressions, and this recall 
had been given in writing to Mr. Plange.* His Majesty 
had never pardoned this young man for the injury which 
he alleged had been done to him by the wording of this 
letter. On May 6th, 1872, after twenty-three and a half 
years of Dutch government, Elmina was formally made 
over to Mr. Pope Hennessy, the Dutch governor, at the 
same time handing to him the staft of office (ivory inlaid 
with gold), which had passed through the hands of a hun- 
dred successive plenipotentiaries, and now came into the 
possession of the British. But before this time, in 
December 1871, prince Ansa really made the promised 
visit to Coomassie at great risk to himself, and without 
obtaining the results he had hoped for. 
From the case of this prince, who had become so much 
of an Englishman in his ideas, it may be proved that it 
is possible for something good to come out ot Ashantee ; 
and we may be permitted to mention another Ashantee, 
who through civilisation became more like a German. 
He was thus designated by the German Oriental Company 
more than twenty years ago. — "His royal highness 
Aguarie Boachin prince of Ashantee, royal Dutch moun- 
* The terms of the recall (August, 1871), were as follows : — " Herewith 
it is announced, that the terms of letter of November 24th, 1870, 
addressed to his Excellency, H. T. Ussher, the administrator of the 
British settlement on the Gold Coast, through me Coffee Calcalli (Kofi 
Kari), King of Ashantee in Coomassie, were entirely misrepresented by 
those persons employed in the writing and dictating thereof. I there- 
fore declare, in the presence of your Excellency's ambassador, Mr. 
Plange, Government writer of St George in Elmina, and before my 
chiefs, that I only meant board wages or salary, and not tribute by right 
of arms on the part of the Dutch Government. " Of course, this declara- 
tion did not in the least deter the king, a year later (March, 1873), 
from claiming Elmina, Denkjera, Akem, and Asen, from the British 
Government, and the people as his slaves. 
