Afram is Simpah or Winnebah.  The people of Simpah are Fantees, but their language is called Affoottoo.  They are in the district of Agoona.  About nine miles from Simpah is the Dutch fort Berracoe; the natives call the town Leniah.  Attah, of Akim, laid a contribution on this fort in March 1811.  About twenty-seven miles from Berracoe is Accra or Inkran, once subject to Aquamboo, which people, according to Isert, formerly drove them to Popo.

We had only the Horatio schooner in company, the African steam-vessel, and Diadem transport, having sailed the preceding evening for Fernando Po.

Sunday, 21st.—­At eleven o’clock this forenoon, we anchored in Accra Roads, where we found His Majesty’s ship Esk, Captain Purchass, who came on board to wait on Captain Owen.  I had the pleasure of accompanying this gentleman on his return, first to his ship and then to the shore, in a very fine canoe of the country, belonging to Mr. Bannerman, who is the only English merchant at Accra.  This canoe was fifty feet in length, pulling seventeen paddles, and Mr. B. has had it raised two feet in the fore part (where the passengers were seated on chairs), expressly to protect him from the sea in his occasional voyages to and from Cape Coast Castle.

We found the beach equally bad for landing as at Cape Coast.  Some of the officers of the Eden and Esk, as well as myself, dined with Mr. Bannerman, and I slept at the house of Captain Fry, who was commandant of the English fort here, which is in a most ruinous state, and instead of being fort, I should say it was foible.

Monday, 22nd.—­After breakfast, a party of us in two gigs, drawn by four blacks each, went to Danish Accra, a distance of two miles, and a very good road.  The Danish Governor and all the officers received us very politely, and invited us to remain and pass the day with them.  The fortress was very clean, and every way apparently in good order.  What is called Danish Accra is merely the fortress, which is the case with Dutch and English Accra,[26] for there are no Europeans living in private houses, except Captain Fry and Mr. Bannerman.  The fortress of Dutch Accra is even in a more ruinous state than that of the English, and is entirely deserted.  There is a native town, of course, and in it are to be found jewellers, who make ornaments of every fashion, out of the purest gold, brought from the interior.  The gold is four pounds per ounce, and they charge an additional pound for converting it into necklaces, bracelets, or any other ornaments, of whatever pattern you may fancy.

Mr. Bannerman invited us to visit one of the King of Ashantee’s favourite wives, who had been made prisoner during the war, with her daughter and grand-daughter, whom Mr. B. had accommodated with part of his house, where his own two sisters were living, distant about a quarter of a mile from the house of business where he resided.  They were apprized of our visit, and were dressed accordingly to receive us.  Mr. Bannerman is himself a gentleman of colour, and a man of education; he resided a long time in England, and is a sensible, mild, and gentlemanlike man.  He supplies all our men of war, on the African station, when they call at Accra, with bullocks, vegetables, &c. &c.