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MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASEAN TEE, 
CHAPTER V. 
WITH THE ASHANTEE ARMY. 
June 14-24, 1869. 
H^VPPiLY we were not compelled to advance rapidly, 
being in the midst of a company of soldiers who were 
often commanded to halt ; so on we went, now on high 
ground, then wading through long grass or primeval 
forests. Twenty steps on either side of our column, two 
other lines were marching in the singular style peculiar 
to the country, and many a headless corpse which lay in 
our path, showed that we were going through the scene of 
yesterday's conflict. The frizzy hair of one of the heads, 
made it apparent that it had belonged to an Ashantee, 
the hasty retreat of whose enemy had compelled him to 
forsake the bloody trophy. A few yards away from this 
disgusting spectacle sat a man preparing a goblet out of a 
human skull. ■ 
After two hours of such marching, we were permitted 
to halt for rest, surrounded by a vociferating crowd. Mr. 
K. here contrived to pass some of his underclothing to 
poor Mrs R., and this became her principal dress for seven 
months. He also spared part of his linen for the little 
one. 
To an Akwamu chief, dreadfully disfigured by a 
wound, I offered my hand, which he refused ; but gazing 
at us intently, he beckoned to a youth in uniform, and 
<^overed with amulets like a Fetish priest, who, to our 
