What do you call them ?" "They are called rockets," Frank said.
"What are they made of ?" "They are made of coarse powder mixed with other things, and rammed into an iron case." "Could we not make some too ?" the Ashanti general asked.
"No," Frank replied.

"At least, not without a knowledge of the things you should mix with the powder, and of that I am ignorant.

Besides, the rockets require great skill in firing, otherwise they will sometimes come back and kill the men who fire them." "Why did you not tell me that the white men could fight in the bush ?" "I told you that there would be a change when the new general came, and that they would not any longer remain in their forts, but would come out and attack you." A few days after this fight the Ashantis broke up their camp at Mampon, twelve miles from Elmina, and moved eastward to join the body who were encamped in the forest near Dunquah.
"I am going," Ammon Quatia said to Frank, "to eat up Dunquah and Abra Crampa.

We shall do better this time.

We know what the English guns can do and shall not be surprised." With ten thousand men Ammon Quatia halted at the little village of Asianchi, where there was a large clearing, which was speedily covered with the little leafy bowers which the Ashantis run up at each halting place.
Two days later Sir Garnet Wolseley with a strong force marched out from Cape Coast to Abra Crampa, halting on the way for a night at Assaiboo, ten miles from the town.