Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee

A first-hand account by the leader of a diplomatic mission from the Gold Coast to the Ashantee kingdom, recounting the route, reception, negotiations, incidents during treaty preliminaries and ratification, and the return journey. It combines narrative dispatches with practical observations and local diaries. The work's second half systematically compiles geography, history, political organization, laws, religious beliefs, customs, architecture, crafts, climate, population and trade, as well as language, music, materia medica, vocabularies, maps, and appendices offering natural history notes and recommendations for future interior missions.