A sailor's life under four sovereigns . en a trade withthe natives, it is customary to give the Chief whatthey call a dash, which is a present of part of every-thing you have on board. No Chief ever neglectscoming on board for his dash, and without whichlittle or no trade is carried on. Grand Bassani was the first place from CapePalmas where a landing is effected by Europeans,and then it can only be accomplished in the canoes ofthe natives, about once in eight or nine days. From Grand Bassani we proceeded along-shore,passing the mouth of the Assine River, out of whichthe fresh water was rushin
A sailor's life under four sovereigns . en a trade withthe natives, it is customary to give the Chief whatthey call a dash, which is a present of part of every-thing you have on board. No Chief ever neglectscoming on board for his dash, and without whichlittle or no trade is carried on. Grand Bassani was the first place from CapePalmas where a landing is effected by Europeans,and then it can only be accomplished in the canoes ofthe natives, about once in eight or nine days. From Grand Bassani we proceeded along-shore,passing the mouth of the Assine River, out of whichthe fresh water was rushing with considerable river separates what is called the ivory from the XVIII Dixcove 213 gold country, although both these articles are to be on either coast, to the eastward of CapeAppollonia. We passed the town of that name, and in which Oct. an old British fort, now abandoned, the firststone-and-mortar building we had seen since leavingSierra Leone. In the afternoon passed Axine, where there is a.
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