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MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASHANTEE. 
Asiedu asserted that Kotiko had brought back false 
reports, which the king punished by arresting him. He, 
although a Fantee, declared he had never abused any 
of the soldiers. Mose and his followers affirm that the 
jaw bones with which twenty men were laden are very 
old. Behind some prisoners came the bones, and then 
followed the Tschama people and other volunteer emi- 
grants, amongst them a mulatto boy of eight years in 
European dress, and accompanied by his mother. Volun- 
teers and prisoners together numbered eighty persons ! 
And this was the result of a war which had cost 
Ashantee thousands of lives; from Akrofrum to Kaase 
alone, Asiedu saw innumerable bodies either dead or left 
to die of their wounds. Twenty Fantees are said to have 
been seen wearing the great chain which showed they 
were to be sacrificed. At this time Amankwa demanded 
that all the Fantees should be killed, others foretell a 
general slaughter, " when the army returns plundered." 
December l7th, the king was much rejoiced in visiting 
us, to see that we had begun the second floor, and much to 
our surprise gave us eighteen tins of preserved meat, 
taken no doubt from one of the Coast towns. This was the 
first gift since the downfall ! A man from Elmina told Mr. 
Flange how shamfuUy he and his countrymen had been 
treated when they fled with their property to the Ashan- 
tee camp ; nearly all of them had returned to British 
teritory, and encouraged by the governor, were rebuilding 
their town. He was obliged to go on to Coomassie be- 
cause his wife and child were in the Ashantee camp, but 
was rejoicing in the hope of returning to the Coast. The 
Elmina women who had gone with them belong chiefly 
to Akjampong's train. 
On the morning of December 18th I stayed with Rosa 
while D. and M. B. went to the building. All was quiet 
till towards noon, when the king seated himself in the 
