"Strömberg to Basel"

Reporting inter al his recent journey to Accra in pursuit of money – he did the journey to Accra in 3 days instead of the usual 4-6 by not going via Akwapim, and instead taking the Akim merchant’s road which leads more or less directly south. It crosses the Densu twice. You go two day's journey in the forest, resting in the intervening night in a shelter, since there is no village. On the third day you pass many villages, at first Fante villages making canoes on both banks of the Densu for use at the coast. After that you reach the Accra farming villages. There are no mountains on the route as there are on the Akwapim route, nor swamps like those between Kukurantumi and Akropong. At the Densu crossings it is always possible to find a canoe to ferry people for 1/2d. He would like to work for an improvement of this route since it seems to have originated in a hunter's track and thus with no particular geographical goal it wanders for no reason. Includes a sketch map of the area from Krobo along the Densu to Sansani.

29.08.1861

29.08.1861

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