200 MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASHANTEE. 
We halted in the open street, and painfully waited the 
orders for our appointed lodging. 
K. was so ill that we longed for home, which was at last 
reached in the old missionhouse, where the good Joseph had 
prepared comfortably for our reception. Bosommuru came 
after ten o'clock with a few words of pretended comfort. "A 
disturbance had taken place, without the king having 
any ill will to the white people or to the Fantees. The 
war was only against his old slave states, Asen and 
Denkjera." Empty words ! we knew where we were, and 
begged to be left in peace, and allowed to move to our 
plantation. 
