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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
CHAPTER VI. 
Proceedings and Incidents until the Ratification of a General Treaty. 
Th e report of an Ashantee having been flogged to death in Cape 
Coast Castle, which was aggravated every hour to our prejudice, 
was explained by the following letter : 
Cape Coast Castle, August 17, 18 J 7- 
T. E. BowDiCH, Esq. 
Sir, 
The day before yesterday an Ashantee man was guilty of a most 
daring insult to the fort. On passing the gate, he was desired by 
the sentinel to take his cloth off his shoulders, but instead of com- 
plying, he turned round and struck him. The offender was 
instantly secured, and I ordered him to be put in irons. Last 
night about nine o'clock, the captain of the guard came to me to 
say, that the sentry on duty had reported the Ashantee to have 
hung himself. The place in which he was with others confined, 
was immediately opened, and he was found in a room adjoining to 
that in which the prisoners sleep, with his under cloth attached to 
a beam not more than three feet high, and very tightly drawn 
round his throat, part of his body was lying on the ground, and it 
must have been by the most determined resolution that he suc- 
ceeded in strangHng himself. The surgeon was present, but his 
