Upon the morning following the successful sortie not an enemy could be seen from the walls.

Swift runners were sent out, and these returned in two hours with news that the enemy were in full retreat towards their capital.

The people of Abeokuta were half wild with exultation and joy, and their gratitude to their white allies was unbounded.

Mr.Goodenough begged them not to lose an hour in burying their slain enemies, and the entire population were engaged for the two following days upon this necessary but revolting duty.

The dead were counted as they were placed in the great pits dug for their reception, and it was found that no fewer than three thousand of the enemy had fallen.
Mr.Goodenough also advised the Abeokutans to erect flanking towers at short intervals round their walls, to dig a moat twenty feet wide and eight deep at a few yards from their foot, and to turn into it the water from the river in order that any future attack might be more easily repelled.
The inhabitants were poor, but they would willingly have presented all their treasures to their white allies.