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Mesty then quitted the cell and was shown out of the monastery. "By de holy poker he one damn rascal!" muttered Mesty, as he was once in the open air. "But stop a little." The Ashantee soon arrived at the barracks, and repeated the whole of the conference between him and the Friar Thomaso. "It must be poison, of course," observed Gascoigne; "suppose we try it upon some animal?"
It strikes me I've heard that name before, my lad. Father in the service, eh?" "He has served in the navy, sir," I replied. "But he's a pensioner now, and works as a waterman up and down the harbour." "Ah, I thought so! He and I were old shipmates together out in the Ashantee War on the West Coast, and I recollect him well.
There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen; there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronizing lee of churches. For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.
So serious at the task, and so filled with a sense of its importance and the issues that were staked upon it was she and the maid also, that one would not dare think of the humor of the situation if Helen herself had not broken the spell by declaring that she felt like an Ashantee warrior being decked out for battle with plumes and war paint, or like Rinaldo, or Amadis donning his armor.
"Far year, sar; larn carpenter trade go to England pay off get plenty money come out here in marchant vessel England very fine place, too much cold," said the negro, shuddering the bare recollection. "Now tell me," said Kingston, "of course you recollect being in your own country? Which do you like best that or this?" "Ashantee very good country Barbadoes very good country.
A gigantic, coal black Ashantee chief broke from the throng opposite and, uttering his war cry, bounded across the space between them. Another instant and he would have been upon them, and close after him a yelling pack of hell hounds the overseer's pistol cracked, and the black giant fell dead. A yell arose from the crowd, but they stood irresolute.
By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas: and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.
MR. STANLEY. "Affairs would have been better ordered for the blacks, had they allowed the ladies to have a voice in the selection; but they never had a good opinion of the fair sex, and they are no wiser at the present day as many of their customs sufficiently testify. A peculiar provision is made in Ashantee with reference to the female sex.
So well-conducted were the attacks made on the Ashantee forces which had invaded the Fanti territory, that at length, towards the end of October, they broke up their camp and began to retreat over the Prah. They were closely pursued; but many of the native allies, as on other occasions, refusing to proceed, the difficulty of carrying on reconnaissances fell mostly on the English officers.
She takes the liveliest interest in the progress of mind, in all quarters of the globe; and imagines that she should, at the same time, immortalise herself and benefit her species, could she only establish a Quarterly Review in Ashantee and a scientific Gazette at Timbuctoo. Notwithstanding her sudden elevation, no one has ever accused her of arrogance, or pride, or ostentation.
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