All the wounded who were unfit for duty were left in the fort.
Not long after the start, the scouts sighted another stockade.

The troops formed up for the attack; but they found, to their surprise, that it was deserted.

Both the stockade and the war camp behind were destroyed, without opposition.
Pressing forward they passed entrenchment after entrenchment, but all were deserted.

River after river was forded, breast high, but no enemy was met with; although some of the entrenchments were exceedingly formidable, and could not have been carried without very heavy loss.
The scouts captured a young girl, from whom valuable information was obtained.

She had been sent out, like many of the other women, to get supplies for the army at Ejesu, where the queen mother was.
It appeared that the queen had been greatly upset by the night attack, and the capture of all the entrenchments; and had collected all her chiefs to decide what had best be done, now that the siege of Coomassie had been raised.