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and we all considered it advisable to decamp to other 
quarters for the night. 
We now lived upon roast bananas, and only enough 
salt was sent for my wife. The king at length finding 
that it was not good for us to fast (eating roast fruit is 
looked upon as fasting here), sent us a sheep and a load 
of salt. The foUov/ing day, at the house of the chief 
Dikurow, we came to an understanding with his majesty. 
Prince Ansa's tact helped us so much that the king no 
longer objected to our removal toCoomassie, and he com- 
missioned the prince to have the mission-house made 
ready for us, the only delay being the necessity of bringing 
the matter before the council. Adu Bofo would not 
•object. 
The appearance of my wife, who was suffering from an 
^ibscess, seemed to touch the king. At the same time he 
confessed to prince Ansa that many people had sought to 
excite a prejudice against him, but that he was now con- 
vinced that the prince had always given him the best 
advice, and was his truest friend. 
We now prepared to bid adieu to our crowded little 
huts, in which we had settled ourselves as carefully as 
voyagers arrange their cabins on board a ship. Seven 
feet by six, and seven feet in height, contained all our 
possessions ; on either side of the door was a narrow bed- 
stead made of palm strips, while underneath them was 
our store-room, and above a frame for our "bag and 
baggage." Hooks on the walls supported the fragments, 
which had once been clothes, while between the beds 
stood the chest from Begoro, which contained our most 
valuable things, our clothes and writing materials. Um- 
brellas, old shoes, and sandals were thrust in above us, 
under the fragile grass roof where rats, mice, spiders, and 
lizards found a refuge, and occasionally dropped down 
upon us. A hen house had been contrived outside, which 
