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torch, and conducted him out of the track to the remains of a 
shed, where four or five of the people had before strayed and 
settled themselves. Another party arrived at Akrofroom about 
four o'clock, and the last, with the Cape Coast Knguist and the 
corporal, not until sun set ; they had lost the track altogether, and 
spent the whole day, as well as the previous night, in the woods. 
We made an excellent duck soup, our grace to which was, " what 
a luxury to poor Mungo Park f the name recalled sufferings which 
made us laugh at our own as mere adventures. 
On Saturday the 8th we marched to Asharamang. Here we 
found great difficulties in getting provisions until the Ashantees 
came up, for Quamina Bwa's knavery had been ascribed to us ; 
and here, panyaring all we required, he had not given the inha- 
bitants a tokoo of the gold. At length we were well supplied and 
comfortably lodged. The next day we marched through Kicki- 
wherree to Prasoo, where we occupied a good house, and an 
Ashantee captain proceeding on an embassy, dashed us a supply 
of fowls and yams. We crossed the Boosempra early the next 
morning, and thence began to leave the rains behind us. Per- 
severing in making but one journey of the distances which occupied 
us two and three days going up, we pressed forward, passing by 
our former bivouacs in the woods, scarcely distinguishable, until 
we reached the site of Accomfodey, for only one hut now re- 
mained ; the wretched inhabitants having deserted it in terror of 
the Ashantees. The solitary Pantee who occupied it, had the 
address to assure me, that I should find much better lodging at 
Ancomassa, where we recollected to have left some comfortable 
huts going up, and we resolved to try another stage, and were 
recompensed by finding scarcely a wreck of the place, and some 
tattered sheds only instead of the sound roof we had quitted. We 
proceeded early the next morning, passed Poosou, which was 
