Among these were many women, several of whom had been captured when the Ashantis had first crossed the Prah ten months before.

In the afternoon Sir Garnet Wolseley, with the greater portion of the force from Abra Crampa, marched in, and Frank was introduced by Captain Bradshaw to the general.

As the latter was anxious to press on at once to Cape Coast, in order that the sailors and marines might sleep on board ship that night, he asked Frank to accompany him, and on the road heard the story of his adventures.

He invited him to sleep for the night at Government House, an invitation which Frank accepted; but he slept worse than he had done for a long time.

It was now nearly two years since he had landed in Africa, and during all that time he had slept, covered with a rug, on the canvas of his little camp bed.