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MR. BANNERMAN. 
McLean, the hospitable Governor of Cape Coast 
Castle, who saluted with eleven guns from the fort. 
In passing through the roads, most of the vessels lying 
there cheered us, and an American barque did us the 
honour to fire a salute, which we could not for various 
reasons return, much to our regret; but we duly ap- 
preciated this mark of national courtesy and sympathy. 
We arrived the following day at Accra. 
Most of the officers lunched with Mr. Bannerman, 
a coloured merchant of very gentlemanly manners. 
He took Captain Allen an excursion into the country ; 
it would be wrong to call it a drive; since the carriage 
was drawn by four stout negroes, who trotted away 
very cheerfully and with ease, at the rate of four or 
five miles an hour. It was an agreeable mode of 
locomotion, since neither whip, reins, nor attentive 
look-out were required, nothing, in fact, to distract the 
mind from the beauty of the scenery, or the agrimens 
of conversation, which with an intelligent and well- 
educated old gentleman such as Mr. Bannerman were 
very considerable. 
It seemed at first to be a degradation of “ immortal 
man,” to be so employed, but it differs but little from 
the practice of drawing people about in Bath chairs 
in our own dear civilized England. 
The country is very open, — in a state of nature 
near the town, except for the amusement of the 
Krumen, who have some gardens ; but at the foot of 
the hills, about three miles off, it is richly cultivated. 
