eight in the morning
It was a repetition of the fight of the day before . Several times Major Russell withheld his fire altogether , but the Ashantis could not be tempted to show in force beyond the edge of the wood . So inspirited were the defenders that they now made several sorties and penetrated some distance into the wood . At eight in the morning Sir Garnet Wolseley had marched from Cape Coast with three hundred marines and blue jackets to the relief of the position , but so tremendous was the heat that nearly half the men fell exhausted by the way , and were ordered when they recovered to march back to Cape Coast . The remainder , when they arrived at Assaibo , five miles from Abra Crampa , were so utterly exhausted that a long halt was necessary , although a faint but continuous fire could be heard from the besieged place . Chocolate and cold preserved meat were served out to the men , and in the course of another three hours a large number of the stragglers came in . At three o'clock , a hundred of the most exhausted men being left to hold the village , the rest of the force with the fifty West Indians stationed there marched forward to Buteana , where they were joined by fifty more men from Accroful .