When such disputes as above glanced at happen, the consequence is an immediate stoppage of the roads by those people nearest the sea-side, to prevent their adversaries getting guns, powder, or any other necessaries for war; which in 1738 occasioned the king of _Warsaw_, and his allies, to draw a discriminating line along the _Gold Coast_ for that intent; and this hath ever since prevented all intercourse and trade with the inland natives in the direct way; as also any gold or slaves for sale coming from them, except a few stolen away by the king of _Warsaw_’s soldiers, with a little gold; and an inconsiderable number of slaves brought from the great kingdom of _Ashantee_, in a very difficult and dangerous way, by the traders of that country, in order to purchase guns and powder at the _British_, _Dutch_, and _Danish_ forts at _Acra_. These traders are obliged to come and return in arm’d bodies, many miles round about through strange countries, where they are afraid of being plundered by the natives of their European goods, and are themselves in danger of being seized upon, and sold as slaves, which prevents their bringing the trade down as usual. Consequently, whenever the proper roads are open, and protection given, there will be a great number of slaves, gold dust and elephants teeth brought down to the sea-side, to purchase British manufactures for supplying the inhabitants of those extensive countries, that have stood in need of them so many years. The obstructing of such intercourse has occasioned our planters being deprived of fifteen or twenty thousand of the best and most useful Negroes yearly for their plantations,[9] and Great Britain has thereby also been prevented from receiving _fifty or sixty thousand ounces_ of gold dust,[10] besides thirty or forty tons of elephants teeth annually.[11]