Word: ashanti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is a man of 69, with upright carriage and snapping eye, such as become a veteran who has campaigned in Zululand, Ashanti, Matabeleland, at Mafeking, in the Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...
...four-day visit in the Gold Coast Colony. But the heat was not great enough to melt the ardor of the natives, who gave him a prodigious welcome and a great display of African wealth. From Seccondee, a visit was made to the hinterland of Ashanti where "talking drums"* beat out salutes. Ashanti chiefs presented him with a gold sword, a gold stool (emblem of sovereignty), a gold umbrella and a cloth of gold. A mighty oath of allegiance to the British crown was sworn in the name of the Ashantis on the sword; the umbrella was marked "Yokoma" (King...
Throughout the whole Ashanti visit, white-toothed, white-eyed mammies displayed their smiling picaninnies to the Prince on every possible occasion. The greetings which he received were as diverse as they were amusing: Ohene ba (the great King's son), "Cheerio!" "Nightio!" and finally Yaba dsogban (farewell and return again...