Waylaid and Captured 
placed in charge of the assistant of Mr. Hinderer. 
He received me with such tender sympathy that 
I sat down and gave vent to my feelings in a 
flood of tears. Thank God for tears! After 
that, I felt more like a Christian man ought to 
feel under the circumstances. I have no doubt 
that 1 would feel very differently now, if I should 
be placed in similar circumstances, but I must tell 
things as they happened. Yet 1 sincerely thanked 
God that my hands were still unstained with blood. 
The next day Mr. Hinderer and his wife arrived 
from Abeokuta, and told us that the Dahomians 
were rapidly approaching that place in accordance 
with the agreement with Ogumulla. He then 
informed me of other things in connection with 
this man’s schemes, some of which I have al¬ 
ready mentioned. 1 found out that while Ogu¬ 
mulla had not yet invaded Ejahyay territory, he 
had cut off all communication with that town by 
the regular ways, and that he had gotten to¬ 
gether in several camps on the roads leading to 
Ejahyay, an army numbering about 100,000 men. 
These soldiers were not only from Yoruban 
towns favorable to the war, but many thousands 
of them were from Nufe, Benin and other war¬ 
like and marauding nations nearer the Niger. I 
was told that the men who captured me were 
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