Synonym.—Acra or Inkra.
Locality.—Cape Coast.
The Ghá are Negroes in appearance; speaking a language unintelligible to the Fantí populations, but with undoubted general and miscellaneous affinities. They have the appearance of being derived from some country in the interior of Africa, a fact which Mr. Hanson—himself a native preacher, who has studied the ethnology of his country with great zeal—thinks can be verified by the comparison of an Acra vocabulary with one from the parts near Timbuctú.
More important still, is the unequivocal occurrence of numerous well-marked Jewish characters in their religious and other ceremonies. A paper of Mr. Hanson's[171] on this subject, leaves no doubt of the fact. The interpretation, however, is more uncertain. The present writer believes that such phænomena, i.e. points of similarity with the Semitic nations, is the rule rather than the exception with the African tribes—Negro and non-Negro; a fact which makes the Jews, Arabs, and Syrians, African, rather than the Africans Semitic.
THE WHIDAH.
Area.—Kingdom of Dahomey. From the river Volta to the river Lagos.
Physical conformation.—Typically Negro.
Religion.—Feticism in its lowest form.
THE MAHA.
Locality.—North of Dahomey, at the foot and on the sides of the Kong Mountains.