"Second Half Yearly Report of the Station as a whole"

Includes a fairly straightforward undetailed account of the Akwapim economy, most of which was printed in Heidenbote 1853, p. 107. As a preface however, was a census of Akwapim, which was left unprinted. The figures were compiled by the Polltax collector in Akwapim, they are said to be the number of inhabitants. There is no discussion of what they represent, other than that the point is made that the Collector will have less than the whole number of the people. There is no suggestion in report as to their fundamental unsoundness. (NB In Widmann’s quarterly report dated 1 Oct 1852 (no. 71) the collector in Akwapim is named as Niels Holm, a mulatto who had been one of Widmann’s servants when Widmann first went to Akropong, and later had been a master in the Basel Mission School in Christiansborg).

1852

1852

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