A man seen limping painfully along the street would, after a brief examination of his leg to see if there was any external mark which would account for the lameness, be sent at a round trot down the road, amid peals of laughter from the women and girls looking on.
The indignation of some of the men thus seized, loaded and sent up country under a strong escort, was very funny, and their astonishment in some cases altogether unfeigned.

Small shopkeepers who had never supposed that they would be called upon to labor for the defense of their freedom and country, found themselves with a barrel of pork upon their heads and a policeman with a loaded musket by their side proceeding up country for an indefinite period.

A school teacher was missing, and was found to have gone up with a case of ammunition.

Casual visitors from down the coast had their stay prolonged.
Lazy Sierra Leone men, discharged by their masters for incurable idleness, and living doing nothing, earning nothing, kept by the kindness of friends and the aid of an occasional petty theft, found themselves, in spite of the European cut of their clothes, groaning under the weight of cases of preserved provisions.
Everywhere the town was busy and animated, but it was in the castle courtyard Frank found most amusement.

Here of a morning a thousand negroes would be gathered, most of them men sent down from Dunquah, forming part of our native allied army.