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lay at anchor here. The mail steamer arrived on the 6th, 
and conveyed us to Christiansborg the next day, where 
we stepped (still as if in a dream) into the midst of our 
brethren and their people. 
Thus were we rescued ! — not through a ransom, as Adu 
Bofo had sworn, but by means of an army which the Lord 
Himself had sent to deliver us. 
And looking back on the chain of wonders through 
which our lives were preserved, and we ourselves restored 
to our friends, even the heathen natives expressed astonish- 
ment, greeted us with deep emotion, and confessed that 
they were now forced to believe in our Lord as a living, 
almighty, and merciful God ; for on hearing of our capture, 
they had all decided that prayer was useless, and we 
should never return from Ashantee. 
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