Excerpt from With Wolseley to Kumasi: A Tale of the First Ashanti War Some one was here, thought Dick, with conviction, as he stepped across the wooden platform, with its overhanging roof, which went by the name Of veran dah. Here is the deck-chair in which I was sitting just before I turned in and it is now on its side. I left it all right. And That's some one! He drew back somewhat suddenly, While his breath ing became faster. For some one, an indefinite Shape, a native perhaps, had stepped from one of the shadows and had peered at the verandah. Then detecting the white youth, he had vanished into the Shadow again, as silently and as stealthily as any snake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.