An Account of the Gold Coast of Africa: With a Brief History of the African CompanyLongman, 1812 - 264 pàgines |
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An Account of the Gold Coast of Africa: With a Brief History of the African ... Henry Meredith Visualització completa - 1812 |
An Account of the Gold Coast of Africa: With a Brief History of the African ... Henry Meredith Visualització completa - 1812 |
An Account of the Gold Coast of Africa: With a Brief History of the African ... Henry Meredith Visualització completa - 1812 |
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Accra Acoom acquainted Adda Agoona agreeable Akim Amoo Annamaboe Apocu Apollonia appears Aquapim Ashantee army attended Berracoe body Braffoe British built caboceer called canoe-men canoes Cape Coast Cape Lopez Cape-Coast Castle Chamah Christiansborg Christiansborg Castle climate command commences consequence considered Cormantine coun cowries cultivation customs Danish degree disease distance Dutch Dutch West-India Company effect Elmina enemy English Europeans expence Fantee country favourable Fetish fire force formed Fort James forts and castles garrison gold Gold-coast governor Guinea-worm guns Harmattan Hollandia improvement inhabitants inland king of Ashantee king's labour land laws likewise manner means ment miles natives Ningo observed officers particularly party person Portuguese possession Pram Pram Pram procured produce pynins rains remarkable respect river Royal African Company Schionning season sent settlements ships situated Slave-trade slaves soil suppose tion town trade to Africa trees Tropical vessels wind Winnebah women
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Pàgina 227 - A wilderness of sweets; for Nature here Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
Pàgina 9 - No dew falls during the continuance of the harmattan; nor is there the least appearance of moisture in the atmosphere. Vegetables of every kind are very much injured ; all tender plants, and most of the productions of the garden, are destroyed ; the grass withers, and becomes dry like hay ; vigorous...
Pàgina 248 - ... and countries of Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope...
Pàgina 9 - It comes on indiscriminately at any hour of the day, at any time of the tide, or at any period of the moon, continuing sometimes only a day or two, at other times five or six days, and it has been known to last upwards of a fortnight.
Pàgina 185 - Fetishmen, or priests, for the purpose of warding off the dreaded evil. The people in general do not. appear to engage in any kind of worship ; and although, on certain days, they abstain from their ordinary employments, yet they assign no reason for this, except that it has been the custom to do so. The Fetishmen however...
Pàgina 179 - ... mitigate their severity; and partly because the air is there impregnated with saline particles thrown up by a constant and generally violent surf. About two or three miles from the sea, the soil is found to be much more productive; and it gradually improves as it recedes, till, at the distance of six or eight miles from the shore, it is so fertile as to be well adapted for the growth of almost every article,of tropical culture.
Pàgina 48 - It is well known that woollen clothes, such as flannels, &c. worn next the skin, greatly promote insensible perspiration. May not this arise principally from the strong attraction which subsists between wool and the watery...
Pàgina 10 - ... pernicious influence; the branches of the lemon, orange, and lime trees droop, the leaves become flaccid, and so parched as to be easily rubbed to dust between the fingers, should the harmattan blow for several successive days.
Pàgina 263 - Stores and all other effects what" soever, and to vest the Lands, Forts, Castles, Slaves and Military " Stores, and all other their effects, in the Company of Merchants " trading to Africa, and for other purposes in the Act mentioned...
Pàgina 183 - ... of gold ; and sixteen ackies make an ounce, the value of which is usually estimated at four pounds. They have no fixed standard of weights and measures. As to the means of increasing their trade, they obviously consist in opening a free intercourse with the interior; in introducing an improved system of agriculture, and the arts of civilized life; in enlarging their knowledge and exciting their industry ; and, above all, in establishing such a government and police as shall secure them in the...