But it was thought that the noise of building the bridge, and the movement on the banks, would have driven them away.

After this incident bathing was for the most part abandoned.
The affair made Frank a great favorite in the naval brigade, and of a night he would, after dinner, generally repair there, and sit by the great bonfires, which the tars kept up, and listen to the jovial choruses which they raised around them.
Two days after the arrival of Sir Garnet, an ambassador came down from the king with a letter, inquiring indignantly why the English had attacked the Ashanti troops, and why they had advanced to the Prah.
An opportunity was taken to impress him with the nature of the English arms.

A Gatling gun was placed on the river bank, and its fire directed upon the surface, and the fountain of water which rose as the steady stream of bullets struck its surface astonished, and evidently filled with awe, the Ashanti ambassador.

On the following day this emissary took his departure for Coomassie with a letter to the king.
On the 12th the messengers returned with an unsatisfactory answer to Sir Garnet's letter; they brought with them Mr.Kuhne, one of the German missionaries.

He said that it was reported in Coomassie that twenty thousand out of the forty thousand Ashantis who had crossed the Prah had died.