The northern part of this veritable 'Nigger Digger's Delight' is now
comparatively deserted: some chief died there, and the people have crowded
into the main body of the settlement. The village of Kwabina Angu, King of
Eastern Apinto, is now joined to Takwa. I could not distinguish the
'Palast' of King Kwami Enimill, who rules western Wasa, and whose capital
is Akropong.
M. Haillot had preceded me in a hammock, and welcomed me to his quarters.
He occupied one of the three or four raised plank-houses; another lodged
Dr. Burke, and a third M. Voltaire, Mr. Carlyon, another young Cornishman,
who came out with us, and sundry French _ouvriers_. A large bamboo-house
had been built for a general restaurant: it became a barrack during the
'Ashanti scare,' and now it is quite unused. Standing farther back are the
very respectable tenements of the same material, with broad verandahs,
occupied at times by Mr. Ex-missionary Dawson and family. The negro
quarters are mostly in the Takwa village.
The 'Father of the African Mines,' dating from 1878, lies on the northern
third of the celebrated Takwa ridge, and its concession embraces an area
of 1000 x 2000 fathoms.
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