attained a size more in keeping with tfc^ pefurniture^■!
with the f J s L o n e % e old gilt
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clothes off to get cooler. «light. You only
The looking-glasses, too were m ;g j y P J I | H E
saw yourself in sections m them. A da catch
imagine, for shaving of you" nose, sight of the top of yom head,^oneeye^ | W
and a bit o f shirt front- ^ sticking-plaster round
observed, was considerably tQ a shaky hand, until
the jaw, which I mental y p P g P those governmental
mhrors.tr°One must n/ve rludge a fellow creature unkindly,
especially on the Gold fa d n g th e sea is a sing le
A lo n g the front o f the liv g ^ ^ ^ g ath ermgs, and
i m m e n s e verandah. themselves in a hard and fast
after dinner the ladies arran| n h round about and talk.
row o n ch a ir s ,w i e e go under difficulties, because o f the
Conversation « ¡M g * * . the middle o f January I found
c e a s e l e s s roar o f the su . consisted o f “ Y o u should
conversation with a new- «Eu ?» “You should have
have been here last week. t h . ^ ^ (/)1 , „ o h ,
been here last week when we have a regular
you have a race-meeting ft • ^ regarding the races
race-course, you know iff). 1 hen ^ | Really
Which you don’t quite J J J nice>> at random, and get
though ’ ” “ ^ ^ n l t h e d c 11 3 1 R e w a r d e d wi’th more
re g a rd ed as being sy p whose name you do not catch, is
details. Another .n d . v .d u a h w h o s e ^ a m j^ ^ , ,
introduced. ®saV S° herehast week when we had our
“ You should have he as before, and so on, da capo,
races( f)” T h e n of conversation
^ Ashanti affairs' ani
the real reason why King Kwoffe Karri Karri crossed the
Prah in 74. But you usually don’t, for both these subjects
require sound previous education; superficial dealings with
them are quite impossible, for the names of places and people
in Ashanti are strange and choppy, and you will get mixed
as to which is which if you don’t take care.
Superficial things may have changed now Sir Brandford
■ Griffiths has left the Gold Coast after his long term o f
I; service— the longest term, I think, ever served on the whole
I West Coast by a Governor. But they cannot have improved
1. either in the way of courteous hospitality or in the thoughtful
ft personal kindness which the late Governor gave his visitors.
H f^01" example, when we left the castle after receiving from
»him all manner of kind wishes, to say nothing of pipes and
■Walking-sticks, he energetically went out of his way to save a
■flie life and reason of a young member of our party, a mere
§ new-comer, who wore a light felt hat in the blazing mid-
| day sun My chief and I went off respectively in go-carts to
the landing-place at James Town, and the young man, who
| had also to return to the Batanga, followed not for some
minutes. When he rejoined us we observed beautiful cool
|green leaves sticking out from under his hat in a wreath,
he Governor had not done what many an old coaster would
have done, namely, said: “ There! that fellow will certainly
jp eg out with that fool of a hat,” and preserved a masterly
» a c tiv ity . No he had gathered with his own hands certain
i h T « ! tk them °W" garde” ' and fi“ ed the
While we were waiting for the surf-boat, we had an object
lesson in the surf trouble. Several stalwart negroes strolled
t i n t o it e g * 1 Sand ^ fr°nt Ibyrs mto it ever and anon. Ever an°df UanS’o Pn° kthineSy dleofwt nt hese
k b Z c 2 s e st™ned> - ° ? ^ as °ne might haSti1^ W
Ito go and fetch
they had had enough of the job, but
a spade. What they were sounding for
r the Sand were the iron rails which had been capsfeed ffi
k c™s “ ucf e „ anfd whidl bel°ng to a tramway m course
I f constructlon for running goods from
the beach to
p e sheds. When we got on board
the Batanga, we saw
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