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MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASHANTEE. 
CHAPTER XXXI. 
THE JUDGMENT. 
A FEW facts must yet be added to complete this narrative. 
The British forces had hitherto been sufficient for the 
defence of the coast towns only, and to keep back the 
raids of such Ashantees as dared to come within reach of 
their ships. The whole of the western Protectorate was 
occupied by them, when on the 2nd October, 1873, Sir 
Garnet Wolseley landed with his staff of twenty-nine 
chosen officers at Cape Coast. 
He first cleared the neighbourhood of Elmina of the 
enemy's soldiers, which induced their general, Amankwa 
Tia, to write a letter declaring he had not marched 
against the British, but against the kings of Akem, 
Abora, Denkjera, and Wasa. Sir Garnet replied to this 
by ordering Kofi Kari to clear the Protectorate im- 
mediately, and this order was carried out by the retreat 
of the Ashantee army. The retiring troops were however 
to be prevented approaching Abakrampa, the residence 
of the Abora king, who had been chosen head of the 
Fantee confederation, — which place was occupied and 
successfully defended by a small British force against 
the attack of several thousand Ashantees. On this occa- 
sion Amankwa Tia's sedan chair fell into the hands of the 
British, but he and his army managed safely to effect the 
passage of the Prah. 
The first British troops landed at the opening of the 
year 1874. They were to undertake the " engineers and 
