38 MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASHANTEE, 
CHAPTER VIII. 
JOURNEY TO AGUAGO, AND THE HALT THERE. 
7-28 July, 1869. 
Our next journey lay througli well- watered palm forests, 
where our sufferings from hunger made the few pine apples 
we had brought with us a most valuable help. About 
five in the evening we found our burden-bearers resting 
in an old camping ground, which sight aroused the rage 
of Ageana, so that the poor tired creatures sprang to their 
feet, and started afresh with their loads. One woman 
venturing to complain of its weight, was irritated to the 
last pitch of endurance by the storm of abuse poured forth 
on her. She returned a volley of angry words, seized her 
load, and made off to the woods, where she was followed 
in pursuit by our entire company. Thus left alone with 
Ageana, we were accused as the authors of this mischief, 
for said he, " it was your things they were carrying," an 
assertion which was utterly false, for with the exception 
of the chair he had appropriated, and would never even 
lend us, they had nothing of ours at all. 
Unripe bananas boiled in their skins were now set be- 
fore us. After trying in vain to eat them we sank down 
on the damp ground — a few leaves our only protection, 
a stone our pillow — and thus, with our irons clasped round 
us, we once more fell asleep till the morning, when we 
pursued our journey still fasting, so that for twenty-four 
hours not a morsel passed our lips. Our people had 
cooked themselves a savoury soup before our eyes, from a 
