reducing to a state of servitude the
_Adampi_, or _Tambi_, Negroes of the hill country; these being a portion
of their own stock, and speaking a mutually intelligible language.

But, in time, they were themselves conquered by the _Akvambu_, and broke
up into two parts. One of these remained _in situ_, and is represented
by the present Gha of Christiansborg. The other fled to the Little Popo,
an island off the coast of Dahomey, and there settled.

What remained then on the Gold Coast were the Gha and Akvambu; and these
were afterwards conquered by the Akkim Fantis, themselves eventually
reduced by the Ashantis.

In no more than nine or ten villages, lying within nine or ten miles of
Fort St. James and Christiansborg, was the Akra language spoken in the
time of Protten (A.D. 1794), and of the Ghas thus speaking it each
understood the Fanti.

This makes the Gha a decreasing, and, for practical purposes, an
unimportant population. At the same time I should be glad to direct the
attention of some investigator to their ethnology. Their exact relations
to the Akvambu are uncertain. The only work known to me where specimens
of the latter language are to be found is out of reach.[18]

Then as to the _Adampi_. Bowdich states that it radically differs from
the Gha; the numerals, which agree, being borrowed from the one tongue
into the other. But his collation rests on only seven words.

Again,--_Adampi_, _Tembi_, and _Tambu_ are words so much alike as to
pass for the same. Yet a _Tembu_ vocabulary in the "Mithridates" differs
from a _Tambu_ one in the same work--

ENGLISH. TEMBU. TAMBU.

_Sky_ so giom.
_Sun_ wis pum.
_Moon_ igodi horamb.
_Man_ naa nyummu.
... ibalu numero.
_Woman_ alo in.
_Head_ knynoo ii.
_Foot_ navorree nandi.
_One_ kuddum kaki.
_Two_ noalee ennu.
_Three_ nodoso ettee.

Again--the _Tembu_ is related to the vocabulary of a language called
_Kouri_, which the _Tambu_ is _not_.

ENGLISH. TEMBU. KOURI.

_Sun_ wis nosi.
_Man_ ibalu abalu.
_Woman_ alo alu.
_One_ kuddum kotum.
_Two_ noalee nalee.
_Three_ nodoso natisu.

Thirdly, the _Tjemba_ of Balbi's "Atlas Ethnologique" is called
_Kassenti_.

Lastly, the _Gha_, as far as very short comparison goes, is neither
_Tambu_ nor _Tembu