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ACCRA. 
Like Cape Coast, the most prominent feature is the 
fort, the white-washed front of which, though dilapi- 
dated, serves to shew out more strongly the flat 
character of the surrounding country. 
The surf here is very bad, and extends much further 
out than at most other places ; nevertheless, it is 
generally possible to land at the expense of a good 
wetting. Some of the English houses are large, and 
comfortably arranged for the climate, especially Mr. 
Bannerman’s. 
Accra has the reputation of being the most healthy 
point along the coast, although the statistics of our 
military, when they were formerly employed there, show 
a mortality quite incompatible with this belief, and one 
more in accordance with the low and insalubrious 
appearance of the locality. The native dwellings are 
much the same as at Cape Coast, but, if anything, 
dirtier, while their tenants are decidedly behind their 
neighbours in improvement. At several places Fetiche 
figures of various characters were displayed ; some of 
them pro bono publico, yet without any want of others, 
private or household. Most parts of the town are 
intersected with deep water-courses, formed during the 
rains, which, if not thus carried off, would form an 
unwholesome marsh. 
The only occupation of any importance among the 
natives is the searching after gold, and its subsequent 
manufacture into various trinkets. The latter is only 
followed by a few whose position is more respectable. 
