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It comes from afar, heading, they say, in Abasakasu, a region where gold abounds. In three-quarters of an hour we had cleared the four short miles which separate Axim from the Ancobra ferry. This is the line of a future tramway, which will transport goods from the port to the river; at present they must be shipped in bar-boats, which cost much and carry little.
Boys suck the honey of the flower-stalk; and adults drink or otherwise use, as corrective of bile, an infusion of the leaves and the under bark. They could not give me the receipt for the valuable preparation of the green apple, well known to the Fantis of Accra. After returning to Axim we heard of rich diggings two hours' march inland, or north with easting from Esyáma.
A regular market went on alongside. Our sailors would pass down a biscuit or some other thing in their caps, and haul them up again with pineapples, or bananas, or fish, or perhaps a gray parrot. Thus we sailed along till we came to some great forts, whose white walls bristled with cannon Axim, Elmina, Cape Coast Cattle- -the two first flying the Dutch, the last one, the British flag.
These servile soldiers continued in Batavia, except a few wounded ones, who have been sent back to El Mina, and now reside there on pensions. Between Axim and Accra, both inclusive, there are six Dutch forts now occupied and in repair, besides several which have been abandoned.
One of these men was accused of murdering a woman in one of the villages on the way. His comrades brought in husbands, wives, and children indiscriminately, not sparing even the chiefs. Bimfú, of Insimankáo, was among the number; next morning, however, he threw his pack, bolted to the bush, and eventually reported his grievances to Axim.
There is a flavour of England in 'A. B. and Co., licensed dealers in wine and spirits, wholesale and retail, inscribed upon boards over the merchants' doors; also in the lawn-tennis, which I have seen played in a space called by courtesy a square: Cameron, by-the-bye, has hired it, despite some vexatious local opposition, and it will be a fine locale for the Axim Hotel now being opened.
M. Bonnat was presently informed of the Tákwá Ridge, mines well known for a century at least to Cape Coast Castle, and ever the principal source of the Axim currency. They were still worked in 1875 by the people who drew their stores from Axim. A five-weeks' residence convinced him that they were rich enough to attract capital; he went to Europe, and was successful in raising it.
Visit from two English Trading-Captains The Invisible King of Jack-a-Jack Human Sacrifices French Fortresses at Grand Bassam, at Assinee, and other points Objections to the Locality of Liberia Encroachments on the Limits of that Colony Arrival at Axim Sketches of that Settlement Dix Cove Civilized Natives An Alligator. April 14. Under way from Cape Lahon at daylight.
James Irvine, came on board to receive us, and housed us and our innumerable belongings in his little bungalow facing 'Water Street. We found life at Axim pleasant enough. Even in these days of comparative barbarism, or at best of incipient civilisation, the station is not wholly desert. The agents of the several firms are hospitable in the extreme.
Indeed, fashion may be said to have its perfect triumph and utmost refinement, in this article; it being a positive fact, that some of the Axim girls wear merely the bustle, without so much as the shadow of a garment. Its native name is "tarb koshe." Axim is said to be perfectly healthy, there being no marshes in the vicinity. The soil is fertile and the growth luxuriant.
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