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have procured that, the roof might soon have been placed 
on it. 
We were told of a chief who had wished to go over to 
the enemy with his followers ; at the last moment the in- 
tended flight was discovered, but it was made light of in 
the camp, and a promise was given that the affair should 
not be reported to the king. On the march back, how- 
ever, the whole party were put in irons and afterwards 
massacred; others were threatened with the same fate. 
Adu Bofo was also reported to be hemmed in between the 
enemy and a river, without the power to extricate 
himself. 
On Wednesday, January 7th, we had returned from the 
Adae at three o'clock, when D. entered and announced 
that the English army was at Asiaman (a day's journey 
from the Prah), that Obeng had been sent from Fomana 
an hour before to the south, with the Adanse chiefs, and 
that the king had ordered every man to Coomassie, in 
order to head them himself. Our position had thus be- 
come very critical. Whether we should be placed in 
irons or killed seemed doubtful, but in any case we knew 
that God cared for us and would guard us. 
Few people in the town slept that night, but were con- 
stantly playing Sokoda. In the morning of January the 8th, 
a sword-bearer came to assure himself that we were all there. 
In the afternoon we heard that Robert had returned, and 
had been taken to Owusu Kokoo's house. The chiefs were 
assembled in the palace, and we felt assured that the Lord 
would speak a word there too. We called to remembrance 
how on that day eight years before, we had been married 
in Christianburg, and we earnestly prayed that our faith 
might be strengthened I We saw nothing of Robert, but 
Mose was summoned late in the evening, and two letters 
were given him to translate, the chiefs were however so 
impatient, that he only finished one. It was from an 
