The Ashantee War: the market-place at Coomassie, 1873. 'Coomassie [in the Gold Coast is] the capital of King Koki Kankalli...The streets are wide, the houses are mostly uniform in structure...The front[s of the houses are] ornamented with rude geometrical figures in relief, coloured red, and above the ground floor whitewashed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.
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