This seemed more hopeful than the king's words had given them to expect.

The missionaries said that negotiations were going on for their release, and that they expected very shortly to be sent down to Cape Coast.

So far as they knew everything was being done by the English to satisfy the king, and they looked upon the establishment of peace as certain.

They described the horrible rites and sacrifices which they had been compelled to witness, and said that at least three thousand persons were slaughtered annually in Coomassie.
"You noticed," one of them said, "the great tree in the marketplace under which the king sat.

That is the great fetish tree.