Thomas Birch Freeman : missionary pioneer to Ashanti, Dahomey, and Egba (1893)
Milum, John · London : S.W. Partridge · leaf 48
THOMAS BIRCH FREEMAN. 44 to be obtained by bathing in its waters. This place is about eighty-five miles from the coast, and mid- way between Cape Coast and Coomassie. He describes the country over which he had travelled as “ covered with luxuriant vegetation, con- sisting of plantains, bananas,… … MANSU. large forest trees covered with climbers, Epiphytical Orchidece , and ferns. Among the shrubs and her- baceous plants I noticed a very pretty variety of Crotan ; also Lamtana Odorata , and a species of Gardenia Hedychium , or garland flower, Ganna Indica , and a handsome blue variety of…
Freeman, Thomas Birch, 1809-1890 · Missions
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