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Page 57
... coast in the locality . While these European posts were being con- structed , Ayaso was destroyed in a tribal war , and its population , together with that of the other major Ga towns on the Accra plains , was drawn to the coast by the ...
... coast in the locality . While these European posts were being con- structed , Ayaso was destroyed in a tribal war , and its population , together with that of the other major Ga towns on the Accra plains , was drawn to the coast by the ...
Page 196
... coast from Whydah ( now Ouidah , Benin ) in the east to beyond Winneba ( now in Ghana ) in the west . Its founders , an Akan people who are tradi- tionally said to have come from Twifu Heman , northwest of Cape Coast , moved dur- ing ...
... coast from Whydah ( now Ouidah , Benin ) in the east to beyond Winneba ( now in Ghana ) in the west . Its founders , an Akan people who are tradi- tionally said to have come from Twifu Heman , northwest of Cape Coast , moved dur- ing ...
Page 411
... coast of North America and discovered the site of the future New York City . Jean and Raoul Parmentier in 1529 reached the coast of Sumatra in two of Ango's ships , the Pensée and the Sacre . Ango also sponsored privateering . One of ...
... coast of North America and discovered the site of the future New York City . Jean and Raoul Parmentier in 1529 reached the coast of Sumatra in two of Ango's ships , the Pensée and the Sacre . Ango also sponsored privateering . One of ...
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