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Table 1. GOLD COAST OVERLAND ROUTES 1875-1901
MAJOR ROUTES INDICATING NUMBERS OF RURAL POSTMEN & FREQUENCY OF SERVICE

* From Cape Coast up to 1877
** The Blue Books record a biweekly service 1881-83, the Gazette records the biweekly service replacing a weekly
service in February 1884.

Coast internal postal service and record schedules century are regrettably sparse. I welcome additional
for internal routes. The efficiency of inland mail information or suggestions from any reader.
transport is interpreted by studies of covers carried
during the period. This paper must be considered a I found the character of the Gold Coast Rural
'work in progress' since records in archives on Postmen especially appealing. The quotation heading
postal matters for this colony during the nineteenth this article evokes images of barefoot native carriers