Their tomorrow means a month hence, directly, a week.

If, then, the Ashanti army had been detained for one year or five before the English settlements, it would have been a matter of indifference to them, so long as they could obtain food.

Their women were with them, for the wife and daughters of each warrior had carried on head, with the army, his household goods, a tiny stool, a few calabashes for cooking, a mat to sleep on, and baskets high piled with provisions.

They were there to collect sticks, to cook food, draw water, bring fire for his pipe, minister to his pleasures.

He could have no more if he were at home, and was contented to wait as long as the king ordered, were that time years distant.
Frank was often filled with disgust at seeing these noble savages lying indolently from morn till night while their wives went miles in the forest searching for pineapples and fruits, bent down and prematurely aged by toil and hardship.