288 MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASEANTEj^. 
gone very early to Fomana, M. Bonnat and I followed liim 
in order to speak a word for the Fantees and others who 
were still in Coomassie. We had another pleasant con- 
versation with Sir Garnet, in which he asked me about 
many things, and I commended the Fantees to his care. 
Here I parted with our faithful fellow-sufferer, who had 
begged to be allowed to remain with his excellency, while 
I returned to Mouse alone, thenceto set out (January 25th) 
on our journey to the Coast. 
It was with a strange feeling that on the morning of 
the 2nd February we entered Cape Coast, and had to run 
the gauntlet, as it were, between men of all colours and 
costumes, and receive the greetings and welcomes of an 
ever increasing multitude. Far too many wanted to shake 
hands, while little Rosie stared at the crowds with most 
comical placidity, and seemed to think they had all gone 
mad together. 
We were kindly welcomed in the Wesleyan mission 
house by Mr. and Mrs. Picot, and the missionary Lawerac, 
and here again I embraced our dear Ktihne, who was over- 
joyed to see us, as he had suffered much anxiety on our 
account. After he had become composed, I found him 
more cheerful than in Coomassie, but the physician 
who attended him said that half of the right lung was 
gone, which he attributed to the privations he had endured. 
Captain Lees, the provisional administrator, received us 
most obligingly, and communicated to us a telegram just 
received of the battle at Bekwae and Amoaforo, and we 
also had great pleasure in meeting old Mr. Freeman, the 
founder of the Wesleyan mission in Coomassie. 
That we made purchases of clothes, shoes, and other 
necessaries of civilized life, it is not necessary for these 
pages to relate, nor that warm-hearted ladies loaded us 
with gifts, nor that we ventured out to sea and inspected 
the magnificent hospital ship, one of the great fleet that 
