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Updated: June 8, 2025
The Kroo Country Religion of the Kroo and Fish men Emigration of the Natives Sketch of their habits and customs Purchase of wives The Krooman's ne plus ultra Migratory propensities Rogueries exposed Adoption of English Names Cape Palmas Dexterity of the Fishmen Fish towns The Fetish Arrival at Cape Coast Land with the Governor Captain Hutchison Cape Coast mode of taking an airing Ashantee Chiefs Diurnal occupations School for Native Girls Domestication of Females Colonel Lumley Captain Ricketts Neglect of Portuguese fortresses A native Doctor
Amongst the deaths, there were three native chiefs, who commanded in our lines. Soon after the battle, some of the Annamaboe people brought several heads of Ashantees whom they had slain to Captain Hutchison, as a proof of their personal courage, and individual prowess. Some of these heads were recognised by Captain Hutchison as belonging to natives who had been known to him.
The surf not being very high, we were enabled to land without a wetting, which is rarely the case. On entering the castle, I was introduced to the officers of the garrison, and to Capt. Hutchison, a merchant of this place, who is well-known for his eminent services in this country. The first thing that brought him into particular notice was being associated with Messrs.
It's about our back-yard ye'll maybe hae heard of it in the Parliament-house, Hutchison against Mackitchinson it's a weel-kenn'd plea its been four times in afore the fifteen, and deil ony thing the wisest o' them could make o't, but just to send it out again to the outer-house. O it's a beautiful thing to see how lang and how carefully justice is considered in this country!"
It was at this conjuncture that he made the acquaintance of the brethren at Big Springs, and became impressed with the simplicity and scriptural authority of our plea. It is well known that there never was more than a paper wall between ourselves and "The Old Christian Order," and there seemed nothing in the way of Bro. Hutchison.
Let me here, for the credit of Ayrshire, my own county, record a noble instance of liberal honesty in William Hutchison, drover, in Lanehead, Kyle, who formerly obtained a full discharge from his creditors upon a composition of his debts; but upon being restored to good circumstances, invited his creditors last winter to a dinner, without telling the reason, and paid them their full sums, principal and interest.
It's about our back-yard ye'll maybe hae heard of it in the Parliament-house, Hutchison against Mackitchinson it's a weel-kenn'd plea its been four times in afore the fifteen, and deil ony thing the wisest o' them could make o't, but just to send it out again to the outer-house. O it's a beautiful thing to see how lang and how carefully justice is considered in this country!"
If any colony should be charged with breaking an article of the agreement, or with doing an injury to another colony, the complaint was to be submitted to the consideration and determination of the commissioners of such colonies as should be disinterested. Hutchison.
I will just give an outline of my diurnal occupations, which were pretty much the same during my short stay at Cape Coast. My first visit every morning was to Captain Hutchison about 7 o'clock, when I was sure to find him at breakfast.
Hope-Scott purchased the property, for the sum of 24,000l., without even having seen it. His attention had been drawn to it by the late Mrs. Colonel Hutchison, of Edinburgh, a lady well known among Scotch Catholics for her shrewd good sense and innumerable good works.
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