" "Or the fine hardwood trees in Ashantee, where a whole regiment could picnic under the shade.

Egyptian Bey, Ashantee, Algerine, Copts woman, Mameluke, native of Morocco, Tibboo woman, Egyptian woman, Fellah, Bedouin Arab, Turkish foot soldier, Maltese, Rosettan, native of Cairo, Turkish gentleman, Bosjesman, native of Coronna, native of Namacqua, Caffree, native of Tamaha, native of Ebo.

The Ashantee Wife.

Is not the next coast Ashantee?

"Yes; Ashantee is at present the most powerful state in all Western Africa, and, in fact, rules over a considerable portion of it.

A peculiar provision is made in Ashantee with reference to the female sex.

North Africa had long been in more direct communication with the old Empires of immemorial luxury, and was therefore farther advanced in the arts of living than the Spain and France of the Dark Ages; and this is why, in a country that to the average modern European seems as savage as Ashantee, one finds traces of a refinement of life and taste hardly to be matched by Carlovingian and early Capetian Europe.

We are quite satisfied that, except an Englishman, who will endure any thing, no native of any climate under the sky would endure a London hackney coach; that an Ashantee gentleman would scoff at it; and that an aboriginal of New South Wales would refuse to be inhumed within its shattered and infinite squalidness.

Barbarism, as bad as that of Congo or Ashantee.

On consulting that page of Beecham I find that he does indeed declare that "no Ashantee compels his daughter to become the wife of one she dislikes;" but this is a very different thing from saying that she can choose the man she may desire.

Beaumont and Fletcher Becker, W.A. and Göll, Charikles, 1877 Beecham, J.: Ashantee and the Gold Coast.

This is so true, that already men began to talk of the rival governments at Montgomery and Washington, and Canadian journals recommend a strict neutrality, as if the independence and legitimacy of the mushroom despotism of New Ashantee were an acknowledged fact, and the name of the United States of America had no more authority than that of Jefferson Davis and Company, dealers in all kinds of repudiation and anarchy.

ASH`ANTI, or ASHANTEE, a negro inland kingdom in the Upper Soudan, N. of Gold Coast territory, wooded, well watered, and well cultivated; natives intelligent, warlike, and skilful; twice over provoked a war with Great Britain, and finally the despatch of a military expedition, which led to the submission of the king and the appointment of a British Resident.

The Ashantee monarch was just about to make his appearance.

"Messieurs and MesdamesI have the honor to announce that Caraba Radokala, King of Ashantee, will next appear before you.

His palace in Ashantee was built entirely of the skulls and leg-bones of his victims.

Then the curtains were suddenly drawn back, and the Ashantee kingcrowned with a feather head-dress, loaded with red and blue war-paint, and chained from ankle to anklebounded on the stage.

Well, then, is there any gentleman present who speaks Ashantee?" Müller gave me a dig with his elbow, and started to his feet.

"Monsieur speaks Ashantee?"

" "Is it permitted to inquire how and when monsieur acquired this very unusual accomplishment?" "I have spoken Ashantee from my infancy," replied Müller, with admirable aplomb.

The ex-king of Ashantee scowled, folded his arms, and maintained a haughty silence.

But as if this last was more than any Ashantee temper could bear, Caraba Rodokala clenched both his fists, set his teeth hard, and charged down upon Müller like a wild elephant.

"Tiens!" said Müller, "his majesty speaks French almost as well as I speak Ashantee!" "Bourreau!

"Kind remembrances to the Queens of Ashantee!"

Here our old friends the dancing dogs of the Champs Elysées, and the familiar charlatan of the Place du Châtelet with his chariot and barrel-organ, transported us from Ashantee to Paris.