They have simply waited.
Now you will see they will begin to move.

The officers will drill the natives, and even a Fanti, drilled and commanded by white officers, will learn how to fight.

You acknowledge that the black troops in red coats can fight.

What are these?
Some of them are Fantis, some of them are black men from the West Indian Islands, where they are even more peaceful than the Fantis, for they have no enemies.

Perhaps alone the Fantis would not fight, but they will have the soldiers and sailors from on board ship with them, and you saw at Elmina how they can fight." The ship was the Ambriz, one of the African company's steamers, bringing with it thirty-five officers, of whom ten belonged to the Commissariat and Medical staff.