"Gold coast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ordinary atmospheric temperature for some months. Their rates being taken under these circumstances, a large stove in the center of the apartment is lighted, and heat got up to a sort of artificial East India or Gold Coast point. Tried under these influences, they are placed in an iron tray over the stove, like so many watch-pies in a baker's dish, and the fire being encouraged, they are literally kept baking, to see how their metal will stand that ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... her here. John Wollaston was clearly a member of the gold coast class. It wasn't thinkable that his financial difficulties could be real. The unreality of them was, of course, the measure of the genuineness of his fear of losing Paula,—of seeing the main current of her life shift once more to its old channel. Did Paula ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster
... slave-trade. The English trade proper began with the granting of rights to special companies, to one in 1618, to another in 1631, and in 1662 to the "Company of Royal Adventurers," rechartered in 1672 as the "Royal African Company," to which in 1687 was given the exclusive right to trade between the Gold Coast and the British colonies in America. James, Duke of York, was interested in this last company, and it agreed to supply the West Indies with three thousand slaves annually. In 1698, on account of the incessant clamor of English merchants, the trade ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley
... me make you acquainted with the first lieutenant, Mr. Hardy; and permit me also to present my nephew, Mr. Darcantel, captain, if you please, my friends, of the one-gun schooner 'Rosalie,' formerly the slaver 'Perdita,' cut out of a river on the Gold Coast by the young gentleman who ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
... mention of weighing suggests the dust of Dean Swift and the money of the Gold Coast It was done, I have said, because the gold coin, besides being "sweated" was soft and ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
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