Twelve miles farther were made that day.
Thus seven days were passed.

Captains Marshall and Leggatt both died.

The ladies bore their trials wonderfully, as they had to tramp with the rest, along the miry track.

At last Ekwanter, in the friendly Denkera country, was reached, and the force rested for two days.

They then set out again and, after a terrible march, in the course of which they had to cross many swollen rivers, they arrived, two weeks after they had left Coomassie, half starved and worn out, on the coast.
In the meantime the three white officers, Captain Bishop of the Gold Coast Constabulary, Assistant Inspector Ralph, Lagos Constabulary, and Doctor Hay, medical officer, remained behind, with a hundred and fifteen Hausas, few of whom were fit for the task of holding the fort.