My face is bigger than it was this morning, and what it is going to come to, I cannot imagine.

Although the doctor said, frankly, that he did not understand it; he seemed to think that there was nothing very serious about it." The next day the swelling had abated and, two days later, both of them were discharged from the hospital; to their great delight, for they heard that a column was just going to start, and that their companies were included in it.
On the following day the column started.

It was nearly a thousand strong, with guns, and rations for twenty-eight days.

This force was to penetrate into the northwestern country.

The enemy here had sent an impudent message that they would not surrender; and that, if they were attacked, they intended to revert to their former tactics, and direct all their efforts to shooting down the officers and, when these were disposed of, they would have little difficulty in dealing with the native troops.
On the second day, when twenty-five miles from Coomassie, the enemy were met with in force; and it was found that the message they had sent was true, for there was no stockade, and the enemy resorted entirely to sniping.