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Updated: June 28, 2025

The Ancobra, for instance, which often rises and falls from twenty to forty feet in twenty-four hours, suggests that its sources spring from an elevated plane at no great distance from the sea. The lands south of the Kong Mountains are grassy and hilly with extensive plains. This is known through the 'Donko slaves, common on the coast.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative