3-085-964 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

With the British Expedition from Accra to the Gold Coast Hinterland: refugees from Bona at Dekrupé, 1898. 'From Photographs by Lieutenant F. Henderson, D.S.O., in Command of the Mission. These men reported that Samory's son had taken their town, and the King, Chiefs, and most of the people had "gone for bush." The boxes are part of Lieutenant Henderson's zareba. The huts are typical Mo huts. The adventures of the expedition and the plucky conduct of Lieutenant Henderson, since recognised by the bestowal of the honour of the Distinguished Service Order, were chronicled in our columns a few weeks ago. The Mission, it will be remembered, left Accra in November last with the object of opening up negotiations with a number of chiefs of the interior, already in treaty or known to be friendly. The expedition, under the command of Lieutenant F. Henderson, R.N., included Assistant-Inspector Irvine, Mr. Ferguson, Dr. Part, and a hundred Hausas. All went well until, some distance beyond Kumasi, the party learned that the Sofa army, under the son of the great chief Samory, was out on a marauding raid, pillaging and laying waste the villages of the Hinterland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.