This the troops accomplished safely, although the enemy followed them till they reached the town.
Lieutenant Brumlie was killed, six other officers were hit slightly; and one British non-commissioned officer and three soldiers were killed, and seventy-two men wounded.
After this, no fighting took place until Colonel Willcocks arrived to carry out the main object of the expedition.

Convoys of stores, however, kept pouring in incessantly and, to Lisle's delight, a large box of provisions, which he had bought before starting from Cape Coast, arrived.
Then Colonel Neal arrived, with the Sappers.

He and his men built a bridge across the Fum.

It was twelve feet above the water, but within thirty-six hours it was swept away.
While the troops were waiting, a runner came in and reported that heavy firing had been heard round Coomassie.

On the evening of the 30th of June, news came that Colonel Willcocks would start the next morning.