eminsang could no longer remain in elmina and fled to cape coast. he was released of his duties to the regularisation committee by colonel de haes on 30 april. eminsang later returned to elmina, however, and served as acting consul general of the netherlands in elmina in 1878 and 1879 during the absence of pieter simon hamel, and as consul to the congo and the united states in cape coast in 1890.