ANAMABOA, or JAMISI A, a town in the kingdom of Fantin, on what is called the Gold Coast of Africa. The contiguous regions abound in timber, and are fer tile in corn and all the necessaries of life. The fisheries on the coast are excellent. The soil in the neighbour hood is well adapted for making bricks, and the shells on the beach furnish au abundant supply of lime. Placed in such favourable circumstances, Anamaboa is the most opulent, populous, and powerful town on the w hole Gold Coast. Its inhabitants, inflated by this comparative su periority, are peculiarly arrogant. Formerly they were extremely insolent towards the British, who have a fort in this place ; insomuch, that if they disliked the govern or, they frequently sent him in a canoe to Cape Coast with many marks of contempt. In 1701 the negroes of Fantin declared war against the British traders, as sembling in a disorderly manlier, and setting fire to the exterior parts of the fortification; but the governor, pro voked by their outrages, opened upon them the artil lery of the place, and dispersed them without difficulty.
The English, in revenge, laid Anamaboa in ashes, and the natives at last, sensible of their own inferiority, were glad to sue for peace. The English fort is a large edi fice, mounting twelve pieces of cannon, besides an equal number of patereroes. It is flanked towards the land by towers, and towards the sea by two bastions. It stands upon a rock only thirty paces from the sea; but the shore is so inaccessible, that the traders are landed at some distance. The garrison usually consists of twelve whites and eighteen blacks, under the command of the principal factor. (h)