The second night the party slept at Accroful, and the next day marched through Dunquah.

This was a great store station, but the white troops were not to halt there.
It had been a large town, but the Ashantis had entirely destroyed it, as well as every other village between the Prah and the coast.

Every fruit tree in the clearing had also been destroyed, and at Dunquah they had even cut down a great cotton tree which was looked upon as a fetish by the Fantis.

It had taken them seven days' incessant work to overthrow this giant of the forest.
The next halting place was Yancoomassie.

When approaching Mansue the character of the forest changed.