Africa and its inhabitants . ms a neutral zoue of quadrila-teral shape between the German and British hinterlands in the upper Volui town in this region has its fetish, whose power increases or diminisheswith that of the community itself. The genius of Wuropong, who is cnthroncil onthe table-momitain of Sia, some GO miles south-east of Krakye. is an evil spirit whodemands human victims, and to whom a man was, till recently, immolated everyyear. To the north-east lies the extensive but thinly peopled land of Busso, thatis, highlands, whose two capitals, Siade and Dadami, have each
Africa and its inhabitants . ms a neutral zoue of quadrila-teral shape between the German and British hinterlands in the upper Volui town in this region has its fetish, whose power increases or diminisheswith that of the community itself. The genius of Wuropong, who is cnthroncil onthe table-momitain of Sia, some GO miles south-east of Krakye. is an evil spirit whodemands human victims, and to whom a man was, till recently, immolated everyyear. To the north-east lies the extensive but thinly peopled land of Busso, thatis, highlands, whose two capitals, Siade and Dadami, have each a very powerful 25i WEST APEICA. protecting fetish. Nevertheless, three-fourths of the iuhabittiuts arc said to beiifflictocl with goitre. The Afraui, which joins the Yolta aljo\e the gorges, flows through an almostuninhabited region. But on the ^^•aterparting between its basin and the sourcesof the Prah stands the picturesque city of Ahcfifi, capital of the kingdom chosen Fig. 111. —Mouths of the 1 ; 78, Depths. Sands exposedat low water. Olo 10Feet. in to 32 Feet. 3,300 Yards. 32 Feet .indupwards. by the Basle missionaries as the centre of their stations. Nearly ojiposite theAfrani confluence lies Pelci, capital of a confederacy including several towns, suchas the large Mohammedan markets of Kpando, Angvoe, Avafime, the triple city ofAnum, and over a hundred villages on the eastern watershed of the Volta basin,farther down follow Akuanui, former ally of Ashanti, and like it noted for its TRADE OF THE GOLD COAST. 255 sanguinary customs, and Kponrj, favourably situated on a great bend of theYolta, which is here navigable and connected by a trade route with is the port of the little state of Krobo, whose capital, Odumam, lies on theAccra route at the foot of an isolated hill rising 820 feet sheer above the sur-rounding plain. On this acropolis and sacred mountain of the nation nearlv allthe Krobo girls are educated for six years under fetish pri^
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