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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II ADANSI AND BEKWE Across the Pra—Adansi—Brofo Edru—Atassi Kwanta—Houses of Adansi— A deserted village —Collapse in a Swamp—Tortuosity of Road — How produced—The Camp—Author's method of Surveying—Starvation of the Men—The Moinsi Hill—Kwissa—Fommana—Food—Out of the Wilderness—Bekwe—Concerning the Umbrella—The King of Bekwe—Royal Ceremonial—Nalive Musicians—Native Oratory— Aduabin—Kasi. THE next day we determined to make a holiday, for the rapid march from Cape Coast had considerably fatigued the men, and it was most desirable that they should be in good condition for the march to Kumasi. I accordingly resolved to avail myself of this opportunity to enjoy a ramble in the bush in search of game. With this idea in view I rose at half-past four, and taking my gun and collecting-box, crossed the Pra in the canoe and plunged into the dense forest on the north side. I soon found that shooting was out of the question as I could not see above a dozen yards in any direction, and no game appeared in that narrow radius, so I devoted my energies to a search for insects and mollusca, to the unspeakable disgust of my orderly who accompanied me, and of this "small deer" I obtained quite a fine " bag." When I was tired of grubbing among the roots of trees and tearing up pieces of moss for the sake of the Pupce and other minute shells which lived in them, I adjourned to the little village of Brofo Edru, where I lit a fire, and with the assistance of my orderly, Onitchi Gara, boiled some water in a clay pot (which Onitchi borrowed in the village) and made some tea, which I presently consumed together with the solid provisions from Onitchi's haversack, with great satisfaction to myself and to the audience of men, women and children who squatted in a semicircle round me. This re...