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In one of our interviews with the king, M. Bonnat and 
I again begged him to send K. at once to the Coast on 
account of his health. His majesty answered, " K. swore 
formerly that he would not go alone." When D. remarked, 
" the white men are not in the habit of swearing," Owusu 
Kokoo rejoined in a stern tone, " the king does not tell 
lies." 
Having laid the foundation of the new building with 
stones, it was agreed that if I were obliged to be ab- 
sent on account of my wife, D. should keep watch over 
the workmen. We had a narrow escape of taking all this 
labour in vain, for it entered the king's head to fancy 
that he would rather have the house built in Twere- 
boanda, in the neighbourhood of our old Ebenezer, because 
this place was supposed to be the special haunt of evil 
spirits. Some Fetish priests enquired into this matter, 
and decided it was not so. The position was therefore 
not to be altered, and the basement was happily completed. 
On the 29th the king came to inspect our work, and 
told Mr. D., with a face beaming with joy, that his army 
was on the way back, and had already reached Fusuwei 
(a day's journey from the Prah). We gathered however 
from other sources that though the army had broken 
through, it had been thoroughly beaten, many captured, 
and numbers scattered. Owusu Kokoo's brother Osei 
told (December 5th) his people when the Akwapems 
were supposed to be asleep, that such a battle as that at 
Fusuwei had never been fought by the Ashantees, all 
fled, Amankwa lost twenty peredwanes of gold-dust, 
Kwasi Domfe the whole of his jewellery, andAkjampong 
was taken prisoner. Almost every night Kete was danced 
at the palace, and the excitement was excedingly painful. 
Kotiko and Kwado, Ashantee messengers, who had been 
more than a year at Gipe Coast, were now said to be ad- 
vancing, as the governor had sent them to Amankwa's 
