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Show Tho Wealth ot Ihe' Gold Coast. It In Inieicatlug lo note that ns long ngei nn 1170, the Portuguese the nrlglnnl dlscciveiera of tho laud, conferred upon ono nf their eirllest setdements tho name La Mint ((I31mlni), In honor of tho quantity of gold obtained therefrom We know ulsn, on tellable nuthorlty, that Cnpt. 1 human AMiidham on a single sin-gle occasion In 1551 convc)cd to 13ng-I 13ng-I ind P0 peiunds nf gol 1 dust, and that n second I3nisllsh expedition, fltteel out a few cnrs later undei Cupt John Iik, brought from tho now famed golden land pteelous metal weighing -too pounds nnd 250 elephant tusks In more recent )eurn private estlmites und nlll-clal nlll-clal returns serve only m Inert use the surprlHc that (.old has not been furthcoming furth-coming In larger eiiiantltles Tho Koyiil Afilean camp in) until mission tn Kit-muBl, Kit-muBl, mi InteieBtiug actount of which npetus In n book published lu 1819 by T. Kdvvard How ditch, one nf tho delcgi-tlnn delcgi-tlnn If Kiiinnsl ically win whnt How-ditch How-ditch describe el It, Its wealth must have been uslunlshlng, for wo uio told that, at the iciepdou of Ihe mission, 'tho sun was re lleetcd, with n glare scarcely moro supfortible th 111 tho heat, from tho massive gold ornaments which glistened glis-tened in every direction " Tho king wit on n throne, and was icsplcnrleiit with breast-plate, anklets, an 1 sword hilt, all of solhl gold, his guards woro beltu mid his band p!n)cd Instruments of tho same precious metal tven the most lowly of his attendants wero decorated with layers of line f,old chains, while every native tu tho town seems to have been ndorned with what would now be costly Jowelry I3choos of die Biiinci tale have come (11 us In later years, for In-ntnnce In-ntnnce Cnpt, Holsriignn after siting the Ashimtl capital In 1S1.', wrnto that ' 1 ho king alone was a sight to no be- Ing a m ins nf t.ntd from n kin 1 of (Ire- IsJiH LiIh 111111s belmi t be had nu to the dps of .jhSKM LIH his sand is wlili li alone must hnvn V iUH H been worth snine hlluilleds nf peiunds " I, HB H lnhn (leel 1-. lull 111 tho Kllhlllccrlllg , hH H M 1g117.hu 11 v IIH H |