"It would not be possible to drag heavy artillery." "No," Ammon Quatia repeated exultingly.

"When they are beyond the shelter of their ships they are no good whatever.

We will kill them all." The wet season had now set in, in earnest, and the suffering of the Ashantis were very great.

Accustomed as many of them were to high lying lands free of trees, the miasma from the swamps was well nigh as fatal to them as it would be to Europeans.

Thousands died, and many of the rest were worn by fever to mere shadows.
"Do you think," Ammon Quatia said to Frank one day, "that it is possible to blow up a whole town with powder ?" "It would be possible if there were powder enough," Frank said, wondering what could be the motive of the question.
"They say that the English have put powder in holes all over Cape Coast, and my people are afraid to go.