Gold Coast Colony
a British crown colony on the coast of west Africa.
Coast line about 350 miles; area about 80,000 square miles; pop. about 1,604,000, of whom about 500 are Europeans. The native state of Ashanti lies inland, at the back of the central portion of the colony and is now included in British Gold Coast Territories. The products are chiefly palm oil, gold, palm kernels, rubber, timber, etc. Chief town, Accra. Trouble arose between the King of Kumassi, who had declared himself King of Ashanti in 1894, and the British authorities and in 1895 an expedition was sent against him, under the command of Sir Francis Scott, which resulted in the submission of the king, who was afterward taken to the coast. The kings of Bekwai and Abodom also made their submission, and the country was placed under British protection, and a resident appointed at Kumassi. The Niger Convention drawn up by the Anglo-French Commission sitting at Paris, and signed June 15, 1898, settled the boundaries of the hinterland to the W. and the N. Bona and Dokta were given up to France, and the French had to concede Wa and other points to the E. of the Volta which had been occupied by them.
GOLDEN EAGLE brassy-green C. polita and C. staphylea commonly found on nettles in spring.