206 MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASHANTEE. 
poor country could be taught the source of healing and 
unchanging strength. Some time or other it will have to 
acknowledge that Kari-Kari is not God (as Afirifa and 
others declare), and that it is nothing, and can do nothing ; 
then the message of salvation may be acceptable. 
The campaign at length opened. Two divisions 
marched in advance, the right against Denkjera, the left 
against Akem. But the main army consisted but of few 
troops, for many a chief who formerly commanded twenty 
or thirty men, was only followed by three with two guns. 
Both divisions were ordered to make their way to 
Eomana, and the plantations were quickly plundered, for 
the supply of food to the troops was quite insufficient, 
and they feared they were going to die of starvation; 
there was also a report that small-pox had broken out in 
the camp, and that one of the chiefs had died of it. We 
could only look up to the Lord who would doubtless 
glorify Himself in Ashantee. 
