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MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASRANTLE. 
On the 6th, Epiphany, we united in spirit with all 
Christendom in prayer for the heathen, especially for that 
part of the earth so saturated with blood, and that Ashantee 
might be saved, however deep the darkness in which it 
was now sunk, and we pleaded for a living, active faith. 
Doubtless, we had failed in much, and were still very 
powerless to effect good. We could not continue the 
street preaching, owing to the bitterness of the poor 
deceived people, yet we knew the Lord could make 
even our residence amongst them a blessing. 
The chiefs were now ordered to repay to the king the 
cost of the campaign, and to replace the ammunition 
which had been used in vain. Of some was demanded 
sixty, of others forty or fifty peredwanes. They were 
terribly excited, and appealed to the council at the 
palace for a mitigation of these enormous demands, with 
little success. Similar sums were demanded from some 
of the chief people, one of whom had to sell not only his 
slaves, but his wife, to furnish the five peredwanes ; he sold 
his son too for nine dollars, and the poor boy cried bitterly. 
There were many upright, quiet men who had wished for 
peace and free trade, who lost half their families by the 
war, and were afterwards obliged to sell the other half to 
pay for it. But whether the real promoters of the strife 
would remain unpunished, remained to be seen. An 
under chief entreated Dawson to speak plainly to the 
king, who he thought could not continue to be deceived. 
This man asserted that Akjampong was dead. 
The king now seemed to care but little about his new 
house; Owusu Kokoo also passed it with indifference; we 
were waiting for wood to finish the windows ; could we 
against every one who had friendly dealings with Ashantee. " It was a 
true report which we had heard of the dreadful doings of a Fantee mob 
at Cape Coast ; they had actually attacked and killed five peaceful 
Ashantees in Prince Ansa's house, and then stormed and plundered it. 
