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Quaw Saffatchee had also leagued with the Fantees who attacked 
the Accra town, but were repulsed. The King suddenly deter- 
mined to open the path to receive the arrears of pay due from 
the Forts, and sent Amanqua Abiniowa with an army of 20,000 1814. 
men, charging him to offer no violence nor commit hostility, unless 
provoked by attack, but to receive the submission of the Akims 
and Aquapims, and merely to exact a fine to seal it. Appia 
Danqua was sent at the same time with a smaller army to the back 
of Winnebah and Tantum, to intercept the revolters if they fled to 
windward. Abiniowa proceeded to Aguiasso, one day's march 
from Aquapim, unmolested, when one of his foraging parties was 
attacked by Cudjo Cooma and seven men killed. A general 
engagement took place the next morning, and after six hours 
fighting the Ashantees were victorious, and sent a jaw-bone and a 
slave to each of the Accra towns. Amanqua then marched to 
Accra to receive the King's pay, and remained nearly twelve 
months in its neighbourhood. He then returned to Aquapim, 
where, after some time, he received a message from the King, with 
a large quantity of gold, advising him that he must not see his face 
again unless he brought the heads of Cudjo and Quaw. Amanqua 
did not immediately communicate this message to his captains, 
but ordered them to deposit their equipage and property in Accra, 
and then, making a large custom for three days, to propitiate the 
enterprise, he took fetish with all his captains that they would never 
return to Coomassie without the heads. 
1816. Appia Danqua had died in Assin in the interim, and was 
succeeded by his brother Appia Nanu, under whom Bakkee was 
the second in command. The King hearing nothing of his pro- 
gress, and his indolence being reported to him, sent orders to 
Amanqua to join him, which he did at Essecooma, reproaching 
him for his cowardice. Soon after this, the skirmish at the salt 
