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the white painted earth made for the Fetish. Kari-Kari 
seemed really to love this child, and said, " when she goes 
to the Coast they will say, 'at least something good 
grows in Ashantee.' " Before leaving, Mr. Plange took 
the opportunity to prefer a request for salt, which one of 
the attendants said we also needed. A load was sent to 
Mrs. P., with nine dollars, and the like sum was sent to 
Rosie, but no salt, though we had so often begged for it. 
During the night a poor old man, one of the Akra 
prisoners, died after undergoing great sufferings. He had 
been in the block with insufficient food four months, and 
was never allowed to wash the whole time ; how sad that 
for no crime or wrong he should have been thus tortured. 
He had often brought our boxes for us by the king's 
order, and we had pleaded in vain for his and his 
companions' release. 
Before our pretended journey to the Coast, we had, as. 
being more economical, kept separate tables, and now 
returned to the same plan. M. Bonnat was most anxious, 
to spare expense to the mission ; not regarding himself as 
one of its agents, he therefore restricted his personal 
expenses to two dollars and a quarter for the three weeks 
intervening between the great and little Adae, when the 
usual supplies were given us. This sum was really insuf- 
ficient, and his health suffered in consequence, but he 
most thankfully managed with it and a little supply 
from the plantation. 
The 5th of May proved a day of mourning, and songs of 
lamentation were sung throughout the night, while early 
in the morning the king, with his face and arms painted 
red, went to Bantama. The chiefs were besmeared with 
the same colour. He had previously visited this and 
other places three times in one day, hoping thus to avert 
the impending evil by offering many human sacrifices, 
and amongst them the poor old chief Amanaman. The 
