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The Project Gutenberg EBook of With Wolseley to Kumasi, by F.S. Brereton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Author: F.S. Brereton Illustrator: Gordon Browne, R.I. Release Date: June 20, 2010 [EBook #32910] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITH WOLSELEY TO KUMASI *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England With Wolseley to Kumasi, by Captain F.S. Brereton. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ WITH WOLSELEY TO KUMASI, BY CAPTAIN F.S. BRERETON. CHAPTER ONE. GREAT MISFORTUNE. Dick Stapleton tossed restlessly on his bamboo bed, till the rickety legs creaked ominously and the mosquito net waved to and fro, threatening to descend upon his head. The heat was stifling. Inside his room the thermometer stood at an unusual height, even for this Gold Coast country, where high readings are a common occurrence, and where hot nights are the rule rather than the exception. The windows of the house in which he slept, or vainly attempted to do so, were thrown wide open, but despite that fact, they admitted nothing but the deep and ever-recurring boom of the surf, which beats upon the sandy beach of the Fanti country without ceasing. Boom! Boom! The thunder of the waves seemed to shake even the land, while in his mind's eye Dick could see the spray rise high, and then fall back as white as milk, seething and foaming, to be swallowed by the next breaker as it curled its green crest on to the sand. Not a breath stirred on this sultry night. The leaves on the forest trees within a stone's-throw of the house made no movement. Nothing, in fact, appeared to have the energy for movement on this night save the myriad mosquitoes, which seemed to revel in the heat, and an occasional beast in the forest, whose piercing cry was wont at one time to startle our hero. "Oh, for a breeze!" sighed Dick. "If only a cool wind would play into the room a fellow might fall asleep. This mosquito net stifles me, and yet I dare not throw it aside or I shall
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