The Mountain pine Volume 2 - Books Group, Paperback

• Release Date   5/19/2012
• ISBN-13   9781236243034 | 978-1-236-24303-4
• ISBN   123624303X | 1-236-24303-X
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Books Group
• This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...course, were designed to resist native attack. the latter, the bombardment of a hostile fleet. In shape, it roughly resembled the conventional diamond, along one of whose sides and across whose shortest diagonal were built the living quarters. These last consisted of three stories. of which the topmost was occupied by the officers. that underneath by the men. and the lowermost held war stores and commissariat supplies. Underground were the dungeons which, in the days of that iniquitious traffic in human beings, held its pitiable victims. Of the misery of their condition, some idea may be gained even to this day. for, despite periodical cleanings, kalsominings, and constant airings, these damnable dens still reek with the nauseating odors that, of necessity, resulted from the condition of the many thousands of captives. In this connection it may be said, that, at rare intervals, a certain compensation comes to the men on whom devolves the unpleasant duty of cleaning these malodorous dungeons. This compensation comes in the guise of the discovery of an Aggry--the writer does not vouch for the spelling of this word--bead. These beads, varying from one-half to threefourths of an inch long, shaped like a clay-pipe stem, though twice as thick, and of a bright yellow color, are not much to look at. but, whether they possess some value undiscoverable to the Caucasian, or whether they are held in superstitious reverence, the natives are always anxious to give, for a genuine specimen, as much as five times its weight in gold. As there is no fresh water at Cape Coast Castle, huge cisterns, constantly replenished by the winter rains, were built beneath the surface of the stronghold. At the present time, a condenser supplies the Castle with water from a salt lake about ...