Bamboo grass-covered sheds, for stores, were in course of construction.

The engineers were employed in making a road, to take the stores and troops across the Prah.
Three of the wounded officers--Captain Roupell, Lieutenants Edwardes and O'Malley--were invalided, and left for home in a convoy with over a hundred wounded.

This was necessary, owing to the fact that there was no Roentgen apparatus in the colony, and it was found impossible to discover and extract the slugs with which the great proportion were wounded.
It was unknown that four hundred men of the West African Regiment, with nearly twenty officers, and a company from Jebba were on their way to reinforce them.

Three officers were away to raise native levies in Denkera and Akim, and there were rumours about more troops from other parts of the world.

But the one thing certain was that some more troops were coming down from Northern Nigeria.
Colonel Burroughs arrived with a strong party, and Lisle and Hallett prepared to go up again.