Wazeb :
The English visitors were favorably impressed by Kumase. Built on open land, it was relatively large-over four miles in circumference- was divided into seventy-seven wards, and had twenty-seven mair streets, one of which was one hundred yards wide. The banyan tree-
shaded streets were swept every day, and the city was remarkably clean. Trash too was collected and burned every day. While many houses vere small, single-story uts often used for military prisoners), many others, especially those near the king's two-story stone palace, were large, neat, two-story buildings that were scrupulously clean, nicely decorated with polished-clay red bas-relief designs, and well-maintained. Bowdich was surprised to discover that most of these major structures had indoor toilets that were flushed by pouring gallons of boiling water down them. Several hundred buildings near the king's palace were open to the street in front Elevated above the street by several feet, they were accessible by polished clay steps that led into a large room with a similarly polished floor and glistening whitewashed walls that extended to a bamboo roof, neatly thatched with palm leaves. These rooms were the offices of the many government officials who conducted the business of the state. Behind these public rooms another hirty to forty rooms served as living quarters for the bureaucrats' many relatives,
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