146 MISSIONAMY LIFE IN A&EANTEE, 
CHAPTER XIX. 
YAMS AND CHEISTMAS FESTIVALS. 
December, 1871. 
At last the question of sending us to the Coast was 
again mooted, from the caase we proceed to explain. 
Adu Bofo had handed over his nephew, Kwame Opoku, 
two years ago, to the Krobos, as a pledge for us, and he 
had been immediately sent to Cape Coast. On December 
9th, a letter arrived from this same Opoku, which we 
were summoned to translate. He desired that we should 
speak to the king, asking that he might be recalled. The 
governor had told him that after his uncle, Adu Bofo's 
return, the white men were to be liberated, but as they 
had not come he was detained. Meanwhile, he suffered 
from hunger, his daily allowance having been diminished 
in consequence of the grumbling of other Ashantees. 
Would the king come to his relief. We took the oppor- 
tunity of remarking that each of these Ashantees received 
eleven dollars every three weeks, while we had only 
nine to divide among four of us. 
Bo>X)mmuru brought also letters from his relations to 
M. Bonnat, wondering greatly that they contained no 
gold, but he was told that in France they trusted the rich 
king of Ashantee to treat his prisoners honourably. We 
further complained that the promised salt did not 
arrive, and that our boxes from the colony were detained, 
so that we thought of asking the king for a piece of 
land to cultivate. " In short," said we, " our position grows 
