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I look upon Abosu as an eastern outlier of the greater Tákwá ridge. But although the hill preserves the normal direction the reef lies almost at right angles to it, crossing the upper end and striking from north 40º west to south 40º east. I am unable to divine what caused this curious dislocation. The gold matrix is still the Tákwá gneiss, rarely showing visible metal.
The people believe that without it gold never occurs; and, if they collect the common yellow sand, it is to extract from it the darker material. Strangers have often mistaken this emery-like rock for tin, which occurs abundantly in the northern region. It is found striating white sandstone about Tákwá and other places in the interior.
Commissioner and doctor receive no house-allowance, and according to popular rumour, which is probably untrue, were graciously told that they might pig in a native hut in or about Tákwá. Consequently they built this place and charge a heavy rent for it. Government House is a large parallelogram of bamboo.
The Tákwá settlement, a line of bamboo and swish huts well built enough, lies, like a hamlet in Congo-land, along the winding road. It is bare of trees, but here and there a shaft yawns before the doors. M. Dahse makes the population before 1879 to have been 6,000 souls, and in 1881 about 3,000.
The northern extremity of the Tákwá ridge, whose length may be nine to ten miles, remains unappropriated, as far as can be known. The furthest concession has been made, I am told, to Mr. Creswick. South of the section in question lies a property now in the hands of the late M. Bonnat's executors: the grant was given to him as a wedding-present by his friends, the chiefs.
We then traversed fairly undulating and well-wooded ground, clay-stone coated with oxide of iron; we crossed another small stream flowing northwards, and we began the ascent leading to 'Government House, Tákwá. It is also known as Mount Pleasant, Prospect Mount, and Vinegar Hill. The site facing the Effuenta mine is the summit of a long thin line about 275 feet high.
Eastwards there is a corresponding feature called by the English 'Quartz Creek: it breaks through the ridge in the southern section of the Effuenta property and unites with the Tákwá. My aneroid showed the height of the crest to be 260 feet above sea-level, and about 160 above the valley. Mr. Wyatt has raised it to 1,400 feet a curious miscalculation. At Effuenta I found Mr.
It consists of the usual Koranic quotations in black, and of magic numbers in pink, ink. Dr. Roulston and Mr. Higgins, the new District Commissioner for Tákwá, entered Tumento about 3 P.M. The carriers hired in addition to my canoe-men would now be wanted, said the cunning old chief, for the 'Government man, with whom he wished to stand well.
They are mere baskets airy, and perhaps too airy. Of this kind, too, are the stores and the mining establishments; the 'Akankon House, near the landing-place; the 'Gold Coast House, in the interior; the Methodist chapel, a barn-shaped affair; the Effuenta House to the north, and the Tákwá, or French House, to the south.
Though labelled 'Akim' by the ungeographical manufacturer, they contain a board-house, with glass windows and all complete, intended for Axim, and eventually for the District-commissioner, Tákwá.
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