CHAPTER XVII.

Another Interview--Atassi--An Importunate Investigation--A Shocking Accident--Yancoomassie Assin--Draggled Plumes--An Unintentional Insult--A Scientific Experiment--The Palaver at Elmina--Our future Policy--Recent Explorations on the River Volta 297

TOWER HILL BARRACKS, SIERRA LEONE, _November, 1882_.

THE LAND OF FETISH.