Chapter V: 78

Native Laws--Roguery of the Natives; White Men fair Game--Superstition
--Fetish-houses--Colour, Habits, &c. of the Natives--Prevalence
of Drunkenness--Disgusting Neglect--Fashion
in Shaving--Tally System--Population--Accra--Mr. Bannerman and his
Hospitality--Danish Accra, partly Demolished--Occasion
of this--Attempt to assassinate the
Governor--English Accra, its Trade much reduced by Competition
with Americans--Currency--Merchants’ Houses--Fruits
and Flowers--The Coromantine Apple--Natives most expert
Thieves--Population--Circumcision--Mode of Carrying Children--Sleep
in the Open Air--Manufactures--Fish--Difficult
Landing--Salt Lake--Soil--Gaming and Drinking--Population
of English Accra--Stock--Cruel Treatment of Horses--Want
of Natural Affection--Sail for Ahguay--Boarded by an English
Brig--Mr. Hutton’s Factory at Ahguay--A Drunken Caboceer--His
Dress and Attendants--A Principal Fetish-woman, her Dress--Dance
performed by her--Natives of Ahguay--Slave-merchants--Cotton
and Indigo--Markets--Treatment of
Slaves--Characteristics of Africans--Fish--Method of Dressing
the Crab--Alligators--Alligator-hunt--Plants and Fruits--The
Velvet-Tamarind--Popoe--Mr. Lawson, a Native Merchant--Introduction to
his Wives--Merchants, their Mode of Living--Slave-Trade--Population--
Manufactures--Gaming and Drinking--Kankie--M. de Suza’s Slave
Establishment--His House--His Domestic Slaves--Noisy Reception by the
Caboceer--Treatment of Slaves