This place was less than halfway on the road from Pekki to Coomassie.

During the night a tropical deluge fell, and the troops and carriers were, all the time, without shelter.
Late that evening Colonel Willcocks called the white officers together and, for the first time, told them of the plan formed for the advance.

He said that, after marching for an hour and a half, they would reach a strong fetish stronghold, where a fierce resistance might be looked for; but the final battle would be fought at the stockades, two hundred yards from the fort.

He intended to attack these without encumbrance.

A halt would therefore be called, at a spot some distance from the stockades; which would be hastily fortified, with a zereba and a portion of the troops.