"Lehman's Report for the Second Quarter 1888"

Writes a good deal in terms of the joy of walking around in the country and climbing hills. Also contrasts the state of roads in the homeland and 'even in Russia' with those of Kwahu. He makes the effort to convey the colour of the landscape - Obo and Mpraeso 'surrounded by thickly wooded hilltops you see a hollow in which the grey grass-thatch roofs are set off to advantage by the dark green around’. He is not impressed by the villages, however – poor without windows, set irregularly, to the European eye more fit for cattle than men. Older brothers can differentiate between villages and see one more beautiful than the other, but he cannot do this yet. Without naming it be he describes the Dente mounds as being found at the entrance to all the villages.

03.07.1888

03.07.1888

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