Governor Price then urged upon the home authorities the necessity for the sending out from England of two thousand troops to aid the native army in striking a heavy blow at the Ashantis, and so putting a stop to this constant aggression.

The English government, however, refused to entertain the proposal.

In order to encourage the natives some companies of West Indian troops were marched up to the Prah.

The wet season set in, and, after suffering terribly from sickness, the survivors returned five months later to Cape Coast.
Up to this period the Dutch trading ports and forts upon the coast were interspersed with ours, and as the tribes in their neighborhood were under Dutch protection constant troubles were arising between the Dutch tribes and our own, and in 1867 an exchange was effected, the Dutch ceding all their forts and territory east of the Sweet river, a small stream which falls into the sea midway between Cape Coast and Elmina, while we gave up all our forts to the west of this stream.

Similarly the protectorate of the tribes inland up to the boundary of the Ashanti kingdom changed hands.