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AFPENDIX, 
APPENDIX V. 
A WORD ON THE POLITICS OF THE COLONIAL 
GOVERNMENT IN THE YEAR 1872. 
The captives feel in duty bound to return sincere thanks 
to all the officers of state, who have shown themselves in 
any way interested in their welfare. They can well 
understand the difficulty of men in their position passing 
judgment on the actions and motives of the authorities, 
and they refrain from any expression of criticism on the 
colonial politics of that period. 
But the case is different with the English press. A 
history of the campaign, which embodies all the events 
recorded in the preceding pages (" From Cape Coast to 
Coomassie," Illustrated London News), subjects the two 
facts mentioned in the journal, to severe criticism. 
"Mr. Pope Hennessy would not condescend to pay 
British government money for the ransom of the European 
prisoners, but he was not above suggesting that the Mis- 
sionary Society to which Mr. Ramseyer and Mr. Kiihne 
belonged might perhaps be disposed to give £1000 on 
this account. At the same time our governor actually 
released a son of Adu Bofo who had been prisoner at 
Cape Coast, and defrayed his travelling expenses home to 
Coomassie. The king of Ashantee and his kidnapping 
general had a mind to get the £1000 which the Basle 
Mission, we are ashamed to say, had been invited by our 
government to clfer." 
