Strange Articles of Food--Native Cookery--The River Amissa--Reception by the Caboceer of Amissa--Soil, Fruits, &c.--An Adventure--Visit from a Hyena--The River Anaqua--Arsafah--Soil, Fruits, &c.--Beautiful Birds--Moors and Arabs here--Cattle--Return to Cape Coast--Hospitable Reception there--Invitation from the King of Ashantee--My Reply--Visit the Neighbourhood of Cape Coast--Coffee Plantations--Indolence of the Natives--The Town of Napoleon--Eyau Awkwano--Fruits Growing Spontaneously--Bad Roads--Singular Mode of Carrying Timber--Cotton Trees--The Dwarf Cotton Shrub--Scene of a Sanguinary Battle--Djewkwa--Native Houses--An Intoxicated Caboceer--The Caboceer’s Presents--Account of him--Return to Cape Coast--Sail for Whydah--Winnebah--Method of Curing Fish--Natives--Stock--Neighbouring Country--The Devil’s Hill--Soil--Yanwin (samphire)--The River Jensu--Beautiful Birds--The King-fisher CHAPTER V. 78 Native Laws--Roguery of the Natives; White Men fair Game--Superstition --Fetish-houses--Colour, Habits, &c. of the Natives--Prevalence of Drunkenness--Disgusting Neglect--Fashion in Shaving--Tally System--Population--Accra--Mr. Bannerman and his Hospitality--Danish Accra, partly Demolished--Occasion of this--Attempt to assassinate the Governor--English Accra, its Trade much reduced by Competition with Americans--Currency--Merchants’ Houses--Fruits and Flowers--The Coromantine Apple--Natives most expert Thieves--Population--Circumcision--Mode of Carrying Children--Sleep in the Open Air--Manufactures--Fish--Difficult Landing--Salt Lake--Soil--Gaming and Drinking--Population of English Accra--Stock--Cruel Treatment of Horses--Want of Natural Affection--Sail for Ahguay--Boarded by an English Brig--Mr. Hutton’s Factory at Ahguay--A Drunken Caboceer--His Dress and Attendants--A Principal Fetish-woman, her Dress--Dance performed by her--Natives of Ahguay--Slave-merchants--Cotton and Indigo--Markets--Treatment of Slaves--Characteristics of Africans--Fish--Method of Dressing the Crab--Alligators--Alligator-hunt--Plants and Fruits--The Velvet-Tamarind--Popoe--Mr. Lawson, a Native Merchant--Introduction to his Wives--Merchants, their Mode of Living--Slave-Trade--Population-- Manufactures--Gaming and Drinking--Kankie--M. de Suza’s Slave Establishment--His House--His Domestic Slaves--Noisy Reception by the Caboceer--Treatment of Slaves CHAPTER VI. 105