The Fans were so delighted with the victory they had won, that they expressed their readiness to remain with their white companions as long as they chose, providing these would guarantee that they should be sent home on the expiration of their service.

This Mr.
Goodenough readily promised.

After discussing the question with Frank, he determined to abstain from pushing farther into the interior, but to keep along northward, and then turning west with the sweep of the coast to travel slowly along, keeping at about the same distance as at present from the sea, and finally to come down either upon Cape Coast or Sierra Leone.
This journey would occupy a considerable time.

They would cross countries but little known, and would have an ample opportunity for the collection of specimens, which they might, from time to time, send down by the various rivers they would cross, to the trading stations at their mouths.
It was felt that after this encounter with the natives it would be imprudent in the extreme to push further into the interior.

They would have continual battles to fight, large numbers of the natives would be killed, and their collecting operations would be greatly interfered with.