The general, who was carried in a chair upon the shoulders of four men, took his post on rising ground near the burning village.
"There," he said, "the English soldiers are coming out of the fort.

Now you will see." The little body of marines and the blue jackets of the Barraconta deployed in line as they sallied from the fort.

The Ashantis opened fire upon them, but they were out of range of the slugs.

As soon as the line was formed the English opened fire, and the Ashantis were perfectly astonished at the incessant rattle of musketry from so small a body of men.

But it was not all noise, for the Snider bullets swept among the crowded body of blacks, mowing them down in considerable numbers.