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... mile - of squalor , irregularity , and dilapidation , such as seems more like that of village than of town poverty . But the feature , as one looks now for the first time upon the shore , is that grim old Castle that stands out white ...
... mile - of squalor , irregularity , and dilapidation , such as seems more like that of village than of town poverty . But the feature , as one looks now for the first time upon the shore , is that grim old Castle that stands out white ...
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... miles in front of this fort and within their protection . We have actually in Cape Coast 179 men of the West India . Regiment , all told ; 10 Marines ; 100 armed native police , recently raised ; 289 in all . Throughout the whole ...
... miles in front of this fort and within their protection . We have actually in Cape Coast 179 men of the West India . Regiment , all told ; 10 Marines ; 100 armed native police , recently raised ; 289 in all . Throughout the whole ...
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... miles . These were Amquana , Akimfoo , and Ampenee . Thence the arms and ammunition were conveyed inland to a village called Essaman . It lies about four miles to the north - west of Elmina . " The Chiefs of all these four places ...
... miles . These were Amquana , Akimfoo , and Ampenee . Thence the arms and ammunition were conveyed inland to a village called Essaman . It lies about four miles to the north - west of Elmina . " The Chiefs of all these four places ...
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... miles along the coast . " From hence at about two o'clock most of the marines and all the wounded , with any one else who had suffered too severely from the heat , were sent back to Elmina along the beach . Captain Brett , however ...
... miles along the coast . " From hence at about two o'clock most of the marines and all the wounded , with any one else who had suffered too severely from the heat , were sent back to Elmina along the beach . Captain Brett , however ...
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... mile further on lay the village of Ampenee . Ap- parently it was deserted , and it had already been entered and burnt , when , first on one side and then on the other of it , down came the savages , and succeeded in wounding some ...
... mile further on lay the village of Ampenee . Ap- parently it was deserted , and it had already been entered and burnt , when , first on one side and then on the other of it , down came the savages , and succeeded in wounding some ...
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Abrakampa Adansi Hills advance ammunition Amoaful appears arrived Ashantee army attack Author bush Cape Coast Castle Captain Butler Captain Glover carried carriers chiefs clear Coomassie Cornhill Crown 8vo Demy 8vo despatch Dunquah Dutch effect Elmina employed enemy engaged England Essiaman European expedition fact Fantee Fcap fight fire Fommanah force forest front give Gold Coast Governor ground Hesba Stretton Honour Houssas Illustrated kind King of Ashantee land letter Lieutenant London Majesty Majesty's Mansue Marines miles move native Naval Brigade necessary night officers Ordahsu passed Paternoster Row peace possible Post 8vo Prah Prahsu present Price prisoners Prof Published by Henry reached readers ready Regiment retreat road Royal Artillery sailors scouts Second Edition sent side Sierra Leone Sir Garnet Wolseley skirmish slaves soon story thing tion treaty trees tribes village West Indians whilst whole wounded
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