The New York herald., 1873-12-15

teetbed fat-nosed, dusky shipmate OF kruianu.
heard the musterroll OF the kru boys whom captain
Stone OF the Benin engaged at Grand sestros near
Cane Palmas. among which distinguished the
marine euphorisms OF "Pea SOUP" "Joly Nose,"
sTar Bucket.v ..Flying Jib,n .salt junk" ''Main-
fopsail,u s'Jack Slushn "Jack- -ack,n "Tom Chips"
.sheet Anchor,n "Cabin Boy" "star Gazer,"
.woo Pate.n "Bll Carbuncle,n "1om Coy" "Jack
Fry,n sPete Blink" "skylight,' "Mizzen Truck"
oFore and Aftn and many more such curious
titles. Tne British sailor, however, regards these
as far more adapted ior his need TO distinguish the
Kru boys one from another than such names as
Kabraklimpsu, Marponotongola and many other
polysynabics would be.
THE IVORY AND GOLD COAST. sl
Leaving the shores of Liberia behind, we come
TO the ivory coast the French possessions, which
extends as lar as the Assinee River and when
once eastward OF that river we sail along the Gold
Coas.-which has finally come entire through trans
fer and purchase, into the hands OF the English
extending rom Assnee River TO the Danoe coast
nDt a. about 200 miles, or from longitude deg.
q INN. west OF Greenwich TO longitude deg
10 MN. east OF Greenwich.
The town OF Dance, on the slave coast, serves as
boundary line between the British possessions
and Dahomey to the east or Cape Coast Castle,
ana the Assinee River marks the boundary be-
tween the British possessions and the French
possessions to the west Of Cape Coast Castle
While the actual British possessions comprise no
more tnan thin coast line, yet the protectorate
according TO the Ashantee Treaty OF April 27,
1881, extends north along the parallel OF longi-
tude deg. west OF Greenwich ior a distance OF
nearly 100 miles; but 1871 the proposed jurisdic-
tion was to extend only 10 the southern bank Of
the Prah or Busum Prah.
POPULATION.
tha
tribes OF Denkera, Anka, Aowin, Amananea,
Atlanta, Wassaw, Fantee, ASSN, Goomwah Ad-
Jumacoom Agoona, Aquapim, Accra, Akin,
Adampe, Aquamoo, Krepee, Ayeno, Kerapah.
Besides these tribes there are many suotribes
not worth enumerating.
THE KINGDOM OF AsHANrEE
extends north OF the line OF tie British protector
ate, all firmly connected under the rule OF des-
potic king called Coffee Kalcali. VINO holds court
at Kumassi, or Coomassie--a large and strong
town situated not lar from branch OF the Busum
Prah.
CAPE COAST CASTLE.
We arrived OF Cape Coast Castle on the morning
OF the oath October. The first view OF the place
was OF seven hiled position, the hollows between
the hills being occupied with houses, white and
brown colored, which connected IN neighborly
manner-not crowded at alone hill with an
stunted towers, &C., in the foreground. close TO
which the big waves OF the Atlantic rush with
terrible Gry the rock that forms the Cape, is
Cape Coast Castle. 1t is a pretentous looking
building from the sea, giving the stranger an idea
at once that II be is going to trust his body IN the
town all the Ashantees in the world could not hurt
him, which is a comfortable reelection, considering
the alarming editorials the British press have
given birth to-
The background is formed OF three hills-vic-
toria Tower TO the right, Fort William, a round,
cheese-box affair, about as large as the mammoth
cheese we are going to exhibit az the Centennial
Exhibition in 1876, at Philadelphia, planted on top
OF steep cone, in the centre, and Connor's Hill to
the lett, on the summit OF which are some bell
tents officers marques, wooden hospital; this
Connor's Hill is the sanatorlum. The middle
ground is filed with hills, covered with govern
ment buildings churches, and hollows filed in
with long lines or mud houses said to be occupied
by Christian and pagan Fantees. This Is as much
as you can take in at glance from shiphoard OF an
obscure settlement just sprung up into notorety,
which must make the place and IT'S history mat
ter OF common talk for months TO come.
Ar ANCHOR
In the roads are hospital ship the Simeon, CON-
manded by gallant Captain Peel; the royal naval
ship Baracouta, Captain Fremantle, senior naval
officer at present; Her Majesty's ship Decoy and
couple more; the British and African steamer
Bonny, the African Steamship Company's Benin,
two American sailing vessels ana brig owned by
the great firm OF Swanzy Brothers.
ELMINA.
About eight miles to the right OF Cape Coast
Castle a garing white mass OF buildings rises 10
vIew which, an told, is Elmina, and the Castle OF
st. George OF Emma This latter place is classic.
1t was discovered and settled by the
Portuguese navigator Diego d'Azambuja in
14t9. 1t was then known to them as
Aldea, or the village OF 'stwo parts,n but
soon became more generally known as Nina or
Mine; but when the castle, which took So years to
build. was completed, 1t was called st. George Da
Nina. The name NINA" was derived suspect
from family OF that name VINO were in the mid
die OF the liteenth century, exceedingly rich and
advanced large sums OF money TO nt out the ex-
plorng carayels How II came to be called
Elmina is easy to explain. The prefix "El," trans
lated into English, means THE" About the mid
die OF the sixteenth century Admiral de Ruyter
captured Elmna Tor the King OF the Netherlands
and left his baton there as the insignia
of authority for all succeeding governors.
That baton OF ivory and gold passed into
the hands OF the British Governor, Hennessey,
the 9th OF May, 1872, the time OF the transfer OF
the Dutch territory into the hands OF the English
after its occupation by the Dutch during 235 years
My object in drawing your attention 10 the old
Portuguese castie-which Is as classic as anything
on this coast is, since the feet Of many noble old
Portuguese navigator have trodden its halls; since
dAzambuja Cada Mosto, Fasco dc Cana and Fer
ncndes Gomez must nave ieasted IN its banquet
halls, and held many serious paaver "a corrup-
tion OF the word pqlc5la) win the restless
native kings, whose restlessness their descendants
seem TO have inherited-ls because the cession OF
tie place TO the English is, with other causes, the
cause OF the Ashantee invasion OF 1873.
TIE HISTORY
oi these settlements Is too complicated matter
'or special correspondent 20 unravel while be is
on the eve OF a stirring campaign, when his pen
VIII pc required any moment to paint what trans
pres or may transpire shortly; but it would be nm
just to expect your readers to feel int rested in
this campaign without revealing lev salient
points, such as viii furnish them with an IDEA as to