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APPENDIX. 
Stanley (in his book, " Coomassie and Magdala") states 
that the ambassador Plange wrote in October, 1872, from 
Coomassie, "The chiefs here are in hope that in return 
for the release of the prisoners, they will have the whole 
Gold Coast." 
The same conciliatory policy was followed in the 
release of Akjampong. The above named work (" From 
Cape Coast to Coomassie," Illustrated London News ), 
relates this in the following manner : — 
" Akjampong, with seven hundred followers, was arrested 
in October, 1872, in Apollonia, and brought to Cape Coast 
to be set free in the course of a month or two, and sent 
to Coomassie. This was done without taking into con- 
sideration the ransom of the European captives, or the 
fact that in Akjampong they were sending back to Kari- 
Kari's council the greatest intriguer and the chief of the 
war officers, which just signified throwing a spark among 
a heap of shavings. He came to Coomassie at the great 
death festivities, and decided for ' war !' " 
The missionaries' journals prove that the latter was 
not the case. War was decided upon before Akjampong's 
arrival in Coomassie. But thus much is clear from these 
facts, that the British Government did not provoke the 
last Ashantee war. 
