Departure--Arrival at Tangiers--Description of the Town--Market--Price of Provisions--Method of Storing Grain--Inhabitants--The Jews--A Jewish Dwelling--The Moors--Fruits and Flowers--Desolate State of the Town--Moorish Market-women-- Gibraltar--Ascend to the Highest Point--A Pic-nic and an agreeable Reconnoitre--Cleanliness of the Inhabitants--Arrival at the Gambia--Bathurst--The Mandingos--Massacre of the Crew of the _Margaret_--Encounter of the Crew of the _Courier_ with Pirates--Sierra Leone--Dr.Ferguson--Mr. Oldfield, his Hospitality--Give Chase to a supposed Slaver--Cape Coast--Governor Hill--Cape Coast Castle CHAPTER II. 22 Attacked by Fever--Death of my Servant--Mr. Hutton--Buildings in Progress by him--Indolence of the Natives--Cheapness of Living--The Fantees--Their Superstition--Description of their Idol or Fetish--Their Customs or Holidays--Native Music--Rum, their favourite Liquor--Proceedings on occasion of a Death--Mode of Burial--The King’s Custom or Holiday--Character of the King--My Reception by his Majesty--Comparatively neglected by the British Government--Fetish Houses--Native Funerals--Want of Natural Affection--The Yam Custom--The Fantees, the worst of the African Tribes--Their Power of Imitation--Wild Animals--The Patakoo--Granite and Sandstone--The Dutch Settlement of Elmina--A fine Field for Botanists--State of Agriculture--Excessive Heat--Message to the King of Ashantee--Cattle--Artizans much wanted--Murder of an Ashantee Woman CHAPTER III. 39 Annamaboe--State of the Fort--Indolence of the Natives, and Difficulty in procuring Labourers--Domestic Slavery--Missionary Schools--Want of Education in the Useful Arts--Hints on this Subject--Vegetables and Fruits--Town of Annamaboe--Soil--Natives--Reception of me by the King, and Conversation with him--Mr. Brewe--Mr. Parker--Excessive Heat--Little Cromantine, its impregnable Situation--The Fort--Cromantine--The Market-place--Extraordinary Tradition--Wonderful Dwarf--An Adventure--Accra--Wesleyan Missionaries--Natives--their Habitations--Wives and Slaves--Situation of the Town, and Soil CHAPTER IV. 58