"Strömberg to Missionary Lang"

He has made a preaching journey to Kibi while waiting for the situation to develop so that he could actually settle himself there. The preaching journey had the result that the Kibi people now know more clearly what his objectives are in going there - 'they have accepted a word for our teacher which indicates that they think school is a European custom rather like their fetish usages'. On the journey to Kibi he says the first village after Kukurantumi is Asafo - a pretty village with European style, houses with only one room. The people all out at farms they met only merchants - presumably in transit. After that Koko – again no-one in the village, over Aberewa Amforo, and through the Kibi farming hamlets, where he met a veteran carpenter who had worked with Brother Meischel. He describes in outline visiting in Kukurantumi trying to persuade nephews of an old lady to rebuild her house, coming across two young men with a copy of Barth's Bible Stories translated into Twi who were trying to work out what the pictures were.

11.05.1861

11.05.1861

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