ELMINA  , a See also:

• TOWN

town on the See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

Gold See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Coast, See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, in 5° 4' N., 1° 2o' W. and about 8 m . W. of Cape Coast . Pop. about 4000 . Facing the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic on a rocky See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula is Fort St See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George, considered the finest fort on the See also:

• GUINEA

Guinea coast . It is built square with high walls, and has See also:

• ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation for 200 soldiers . On the See also:

• LAND

land See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side were formerly two moats, cut in the See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock on which the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle stands . The castle is the See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district and other officials . The houses in the native See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter are mostly built of See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone, that material being plentiful in the vicinity . Elmina is the earliest See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement on the Gold Coast, and was visited by the Portuguese in 1481 . See also:

• CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)

Christopher See also:

• COLUMBUS
• COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER [in Spanish CRISTOBAL COLON] (c. 1446, or perhaps rather 1451, -15o6)

Columbus is believed to have been one of the See also:

• OFFICERS

officers who took See also:

• PART

part in this voyage . The Portuguese at once began to build the castle now known as Fort St George, but it was not completed till eighty years afterwards . Another defensive See also:

• WORK

work is Fort St See also:

• JAGO, RICHARD (1715-1781)

Jago, built in 1666, which is behind the town and at some distance from the coast .

(In the latter See also:

• HALF

half of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it was converted into a See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison.) Elmina was captured by the Dutch in 1637, and ceded to them by treaty in 164o . They made it the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• PORT

port for the produce of See also:

• ASHANTI

Ashanti . With the other Dutch possessions on the Guinea coast, it was transferred to See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain in See also:

• APRIL

April 1872 . The See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of Ashanti, claiming to be ground landlord, objected to its See also:

• TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

transfer, and the result was the Ashanti See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of 1873—1874 . For many years the greatest output of gold from this coast came from Elmina . The See also:

• ANNUAL

annual export is said to have been nearly £3,000,000 in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years of the 18th century, but the figure is probably exaggerated . Since 1900 the bulk of the export See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in gold has been transferred to See also:

• SEKONDI

Sekondi (q.v.) . Prempeh, the ex-king of Ashanti, was detained in the castle (1896) until his removal to the See also:

• SEYCHELLES

Seychelles .