Flight from Ebaddan 
route. We had intended to turn to the left here 
and go straight to Awyaw, but we learned that 
Ogumulla’s men had been seen on the road be¬ 
tween Ewo and Awyaw and that the only way 
to escape them would be by going on to Ogbom- 
ishaw, a neutral town, sixty miles further in the 
interior on the border of Western Soudan. 1 
was much distressed at the necessity for this 
change, for it would add an additional hundred 
miles to my journey. But I was willing to do 
anything to keep out of the way of Ogumulla’s 
people, and determined to hide in Ewo until the 
next morning and make an early start for Ogbom- 
ishaw. 
Our guide conducted us to the house of a man 
who, he said, had once been a member of the 
mission church of Ebaddan and who was a friend 
of the white man, and could be trusted. When 
night came, I was almost as much depressed as I 
had been at Lahlookpon. 1 was now going 
away from Ejahyay and things began to look as 
if I would never see that town again. 1 could 
not endure the thought of my wife falling into 
the power of those ruffians from whom I had 
just been delivered. But I was not yet free my¬ 
self, and was in as much dread of being inter¬ 
cepted on my way to Awyaw, as 1 was when 
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