"Stanger's Second Half-yearly Report of the Christiansborg station for 1852"

In the section on preaching journeys a visit to Legon is mentioned (spelt this time Lego). The people had agreed to give up their fetish practices, to keep Sunday holy, listen to the Bible being read regularly. However, Stanger doubted the seriousness of all this and asked the pupil-teacher who was with him whether they would do all this...he said they would not. But says Stanger there are a few who are quite sincere. There are 5 1/2 pages of biographies of people who have been baptised, including 10 adult and adolescent men, and 2 adult/adol, women. The men include two Volta region slaves, one from Nyemfe in Crepe, the other Aiku (see the Zimmermann’s report No. 157) whose birthplace is given as Akutafe in Crepe. Both are youngish (25 and 17 years: old respectively)...they seem to have come into the mission's employment in the normal course of events as far as they were concerned being already working in the Accra area. Another man is a slave from Larte working for a Labadi master in the Labadi farm village of Oesirehantang. Also a shortish paragraph on the 8 boys confirmed in the second half of 1853.

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