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tain engineer, for service in Surubagu, East Indies." He 
was the son of the reigning sovereign, and by his father's 
wish was taken to Amsterdam at nine years of age, 
and there educated. He became a convert to Chris- 
tianity, and was baptized, so that his return to Coomassie 
seemed impossible. He therefore went to Frieburg to 
study mining ; and there becoming intimately acquainted 
with many German families, he formed such an attach- 
ment to that nation, that he sent from Java, where he 
was residing, a contribution of one thousand florins for 
the wounded during the last war, to the editor of the 
Gartenlauhe (a German periodical). He was first director 
of mines in Java, but has now a cofiee plantation. 
These two instances are sufficient to prove the kind of 
material for civilsation which exists in Ashantee, even 
in the palaces of Coomassie ; and they also show how 
little those modern reports are to be depended on, which, 
while they allow the negro to have as much common 
sense and more cunning than the Caucassians, yet make 
him out to be thoroughly heartless. 
