The carriers returned to Bekwai the next day, so as to be ready to march out at daylight, on the 30th, with the second column.
The troops at Pekki being in enforced idleness, half of them marched out to attack the enemy's war camp, which had for so long threatened Pekki.

The place was found to be evacuated, and it and the bush camps on the way were all burnt.
The second column had now well started.

The downfall of rain continued without intermission, and the roads became worse than ever.

The day after the first column left Pekki, Colonel Brake started with eight hundred men and two guns.
The news came in that the king of Akim had been asked, by a number of the Kokofu, to intercede on their behalf for peace; and a messenger with a flag of truce came in from the Djarchi district.
The appearance of the messenger was singular.

He was completely clad in white, even his skin being painted that colour, and he carried an enormous white flag.