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Updated: June 29, 2025
I would wash down and sluice the whole of the Akankon ridge. Next day we proceeded to inspect two other reefs lying to the south-west and to the south-east. The same horrible end, being eaten alive, atom by atom, has befallen white traders whose sickness prevented their escape.
It lies close behind the village Akitáki, which we had seen during our morning's walk along the beach leading to Cape Threepoints. The chief, Eshánchi, promised to forward specimens of the reefs, and did not forget to keep his promise. The quartz-specimens which were brought to us at Akankon by Wafápa, or Barnabas, promised excellently, and I authorised Mr.
At Axim and Akankon we shall find our chief a mighty bore, each visit being equivalent to a bottle of gin.
We lost no time in visiting the 'Akankon' reef, a word appropriately meaning 'abandoned' or 'left alone. The people, however, understand it in the sense that, when a miner has taken possession of the ground, and has shown a right to it, his fellows leave him to work and betake themselves elsewhere.
The soft and silky Bahama-grass has been brought from Sá Leone to Axim, where it covers the open spaces, and it grows well at Akankon. There is no trouble except to plant a few roots, which extend themselves afar; and the carpet when thick allows, like the orange-tree, no undergrowth. The 'Izrah' concession is due to the energy and activity of Mr. R. B. N. Walker, who has told its history.
This tool is either used in the hand like a chisel, or inserted into a conical hole burnt through a tree-branch, and the shape of the aperture makes every blow tighten the hold. The people mount it in two ways, either as an axe in line with, or as an adze at a right angle to, the helve. At Akankon I obtained from Mr. Amondsen a stone-implement of novel shape, not seen by me elsewhere.
Shortly before reaching the Ahenia River we saw the landing-place for the valuable 'Apatim concession. They told me on enquiry that the stream is deep and has been followed up in a surf-boat for a mile or two. It may therefore prove of use to Mr. Irvine's property, Apatim. At half-past five that evening I reached Akankon, and slept well at 'Riverside House. Mr.
Off the Eketekki village we saw, for the first time, bad snags, which will require removal. About sunset the Aka-kru settlement, the largest yet noted, appeared on the left bank. Here the Akankon Mining Company has a native house of wattle and dab, looking somewhat better than the normal mud-cabin. It had been unceremoniously occupied by natives, who roared their laughter when ordered to turn out.
This wall may be a continuation of the Akankon formation; both are rich in a highly crystalline quartz of livid blue, apparently the best colour throughout the Gold Region. The surface-ground, of yellowish marl with quartz-pebbles, is evidently auriferous, and below it lies a harder red earth rusty with iron.
Poké is the rock where, according to Barbot, 'the negroes put their wives and children when they go to war. The tradition is that the Dutch mined it for silver. The metal is known to exist in several places on and behind the coast, at Bosumato, upon the Ancobra River south of 'Akankon, and even at Kumasi. Besides, gold has not yet been found here unalloyed with silver.
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