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242 MISSION TO ASHANTEE, 
generally ate and slept, and when they might be better able to 
retreat if worsted, as the enemy never pursued in the dusk. The 
attack was a surprise, but the fight continued obstinate and unde- 
cided until night, when Apokoo found he had lost so many men, 
that he immediately dispatched a messenger to summon the Accras 
to his aid, as vassals to the King. His messenger reached Accra 
the next day, and that people joined him on the following, on 
which the enemy retreated precipitately ; Attah to windward, and 
Quaw to Adda. Apokoo followed the latter, who having escaped 
him after a tedious watchfulness, Apokoo, believing the Danish 
governor, Mr. Flindt, to have connived, made him his prisoner, 
and kept him with the army,, which soon afterwards encamped in 
Aquapim, five months, during which time he was treated with 
kindness and respect, but his ransom amounted to nearly £400. 
Apokoo was soon after ordered back to Coomassie. He told me 
he brought the bell of Adda fort as a trophy. 
Appia Danqua had been sent, at the same time with Apokoo, 
with 6000 men against the Fantee states which were disposed to 
the revolters. He defeated them at Apam, and took BaiFoo the 
Annamaboe caboceer prisoner, but whilst his army was before 
Tantum, intelligence of the approach of Attah, who had retreated 
from Apokoo, but whose name was as redoubtable as his disposi- 
tion was rapacious, subdued his firmness, and under the plea of 
prudence, hurried him back to the interior. 
The path was afterwards shut for two years, through the vigilance, 
and from the terror of Cudjo Cooma, who had been elected to the 
stool of Akim, six months after the death of Attah, whose imme- 
diate successor (Quawko Ashantee) tyrannized so cruelly during 
that period, that he was commanded by the people to kill himself, 
and could only obtain the indulgence of a week's respite, which he 
spent in singing and dancing, in fact in making his own custom. 
