Such an attack would at his first landing have carried him off, but he was now getting acclimatized, and his supply of quinine was abundant.

With its aid he saved a great many lives among the Ashantis, and many little presents in the way of fruit and birds did he receive from his patients.
"I wish I could let you go," the general said to him one day.

"You are a good white man, and my soldiers love you for the pains you take going amongst them when they are sick, and giving them the medicine of the whites.

But I dare not do it.

As you know when the king is wroth the greatest tremble, and I dare not tell the king that I have let you go.