... The chiefs supporting him were also well and handsomely dressed, their followers being supplied with expensive and showy regalia, and the whole party was conspicuous by its display, and by the courtly deference shown to Kwabina Ntem.  The rival party, on the other hand, headed by Kwasi Berekum, seemed desirous of accentuating its indifference to outward show, and to wish to suggest that their claims to recognition rested less on this than on intrinsic merit. (The Siege of Kumassi, Hodgson, 1901)