They are not sent here because the climate kills the whites, so to guard the white traders here we hire black soldiers; but, when it is known in England that the King of Ashanti is fighting against our forts, they will send white troops." Ammon Quatia was thoughtful for some time.

"If they come," he said at length, "the fevers will kill them, The white man cannot live in the swamps.

Your friend, the white guest of the king, died at Coomassie." "Yes," Frank asserted, "but he had been nearly a year in the country before he died.

Three weeks will be enough for an English army to march from Cape Coast to Coomassie.

A few might die, but most of them would get there." "Coomassie!" the general exclaimed in surprise.