. Factory and industrial management. IVEST AFRICAN GOLD MINING. 669 Coast has proved a phrase dangerously fascinating even to the mostunimaginative minds. History and legend are in large degree ac-countable for the witchery, for the region of the Gulf of Guinea has,since Europeans first became acquainted with it, been regarded as richbeyond the dreams of avarice in hidden stores of the ever-covetedmetal. Whatever may today be thought of it, there is no doubt that inthe past the Gold Coast was no A MAIX STREET IN AN AFRICAN GOLD COAST VILLAGE. It is interesting to note that as long a
. Factory and industrial management. IVEST AFRICAN GOLD MINING. 669 Coast has proved a phrase dangerously fascinating even to the mostunimaginative minds. History and legend are in large degree ac-countable for the witchery, for the region of the Gulf of Guinea has,since Europeans first became acquainted with it, been regarded as richbeyond the dreams of avarice in hidden stores of the ever-covetedmetal. Whatever may today be thought of it, there is no doubt that inthe past the Gold Coast was no A MAIX STREET IN AN AFRICAN GOLD COAST VILLAGE. It is interesting to note that as long ago as 1470, the Portuguese, theoriginal discoveries of the land, conferred upon one of their earliest set-tlements the name La Alina (Elmina), in honour of the quantity ofgold obtained therefrom. We know also, on reliable authority, thatCaptain Thomas Windham on a single occasion in 1551 conveyed toEngland 150 pounds of gold dust, and that a second English expedi-tion, fitted out a few years later under Captain John Lok, brought fromthe now famed golden land precious metal weighing 400 pounds and250 elephant tusks. The Portuguese for many decades looked upontheir West African possessions as one of their principal sources of reve-nue, but during the few years before and manv following the cession 670 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE.
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