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continued. The king himself actually killed some mem- 
bers of the royal house, many slain corpses lay exposed, 
and in forty days the same dreadful doings were to be 
repeated I 
We now heard that Amakje, king of ApoUonia, had just 
eaten fetish (joined himself) with the Ashantees. His 
people refused to follow him, so he was induced to go 
almost alone to Adu Bofo's camp, where he was seized 
and laid in irons. He is accused of having given up 
Akjampong to the English without fighting, and subse- 
quently of giving up his throne to them. The proceed- 
ings of these negro chieftains are very mysterious. They 
know how the Ashantees deceived the princes of Wusutra 
and Tongo, in the last war with Krepe, and after enticing 
them here with their subjects, sold or slew the latter, 
leaving the chiefs alone and destitute, yet they prefer the 
yoke of Ashantee to the mild British protectorate ; they 
like to be without restraint, and to behead or hold death 
wakes at pleasure till they fall at a sign from the majesty 
to which they have looked up for protection. 
On the little Adae (September 8rd), we received orders 
to stay away on account of the great slaughter demanded 
by the general mourning. This involved the loss of a 
couple of dollars, which were worth much to us just then. 
M. B.'s allowance was only two dollars and a half, and Mr. 
D. had come to his last farthing, yet we were expected to 
go on building the king's house. We ordered our two 
servants to earn their living by trading in palm wine ; for 
ourselves we felt conjfident that our Lord would not for- 
sake us, and that He would enable us to forgive the 
people who had taken our money from us in Fomana 
(£60), and whom we were now obliged to serve. Some 
candles and a small box of butter remained of our provi- 
sion ; these were carefully saved for Rosa. We took much 
pains to manufacture sugar, and with M. B.'s help we sue- 
