Produced by Carlo Traverso, S.R. Ellison, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr). TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD _A Personal Narrative_ BY Richard F. Burton AND Verney Lovett Cameron In Two Volumes--Vol. II. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME CHAPTER XII. THE SA LEONITE AT HOME AND ABROAD XIII. FROM SA LEONE TO CAPE PALMAS XIV. FROM CAPE PALMAS TO AXIM XV. AXIM, THE GOLD PORT OF THE PAST AND THE FUTURE XVI. GOLD ABOUT AXIM, ESPECIALLY AT THE APATIM OR BUJIA CONCESSION XVII. THE RETURN--VISIT TO KING BLAY; ATABO AND BEIN XVIII. THE IZRAH MINE--THE INYOKO CONCESSION--THE RETURN TO AXIM XIX. TO PRINCE'S RIVER AND BACK XX. FROM AXIM TO INGOTRO AND AKANKON XXI. TO TUMENTO, THE 'GREAT CENTRAL DEPOT' XXII. TO INSIMANKAO AND THE BUTABUE RAPIDS. XXIII. TO EFFUENTA, CROCKERVILLE, AND THE AJI BIPA HILL XXIV. TO THE MINES OF ABOSU, OF THE 'GOLD COAST,' AND OF THE TAKWA ('AFRICAN GOLD COAST') COMPANIES XXV. RETURN TO AXIM AND DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE CONCLUSION * * * * * APPENDIX. I. Sec.1. THE ASHANTI SCARE Sec.2. THE LABOUR-QUESTION IN WESTERN AFRICA Sec.3. GOLD-DIGGING IN NORTH-WESTERN AFRICA II. PART I.--LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN BURTON AND COMMANDER CAMERON PART II.--LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED ON THE GOLD COAST BY CAPTAIN BURTON AND COMMANDER CAMERON, R.N. (FURNISHED BY PROFESSOR OLIVER) * * * * * INDEX TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD. CHAPTER XII. THE SA LEONITE AT HOME AND ABROAD. In treating this part of the subject I shall do my best to avoid bitterness and harsh judging as far as the duty of a traveller--that of telling the whole truth--permits me. It is better for both writer and reader to praise than to dispraise. Most Englishmen know negroes of pure blood as well as 'coloured persons' who, at Oxford and elsewhere, have shown themselves fully equal in intellect and capacity to the white races of Europe and America. These men afford incontestable proofs that the negro can be civilised, and a high responsibility rests upon them as the representatives of possible progress. But hitherto the African, as will presently appear, has not had fair play. The petting and pampering process, the spirit of mawkish reparation, and the coddling and high-strung sentimentality so deleterious to the tone of the colony, were errors of English judgment pure and simple. We can easily explain them.