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CHAPTER XXX. 
THE EELEASE OF THE REST. 
Cape Coast, February 3rd. 
It is a dream no longer ! It is a glad reality ! We are 
free I Hallelujah ! Yes, our faithful God can still work 
miracles ; our whole career throughout these years had 
been one succession of miracles. We are in Cape Coast. 
The place we have often longed for in our best dreams ; 
before us the wide ocean, the sounding of whose tide 
seems, day and night, to echo in our ears the words of 
that sweet music which fills our hearts, " free, free, and 
once again free." Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, was 
the hour so long wished for when we were permitted once 
more to walk through the streets of Cape Coast ! As we 
saw the fall of Ashantee approaching with gigantic strides, 
we had often asked ourselves, " will the Lord allow us to 
perish with it, or will He save us at the last moment ?" 
On Wednesday, January the 21st, Mr. Dawson wrote us 
that he had decided to " eat nothing " until he had seen 
the queen mother and her husband, which signified that 
he would force Boakje to listen to him, for the Ashantees 
know a man is in earnest if he refuse to eat. This resolution 
took effect, and he soon came to relate to us the result of 
his conversation with this personage, who had received 
him kindly, and wished us to place our petition unitedly 
before himself and his wife; he even whispered to D. 
that we should start that same evening — an assurance 
which had so often been made that we could scarcely 
believe it now. 
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