"Strömberg to Basel"

Includes an extended account of his journey from Krobo to Begoro, partly printed in Heidenbote 1863 p117f. The object of his journey was to get masons and sawyers. He was only able to employ one of each, however. 14th March - set out from Odumase (with Zimmermann), reaching the first Akim farms after 8 hours (course roughly NNW). He describes the path as climbing a hill, and once the view had changed from that to the east over the plains to that to the NW over the hills covered with forest he could see smoke rising in several places marking spots where the Akims were making farms. The first night they spent in an Akim hunting and fishing settlement (By the Pompom, the Akim-Krobo boundary). 15th March - Sunday. 16th March - six hours march, now accompanied only by two carriers and a boy, to the hunter's huts called Aduntia. 17th Match - delayed by a thunderstorm, and bad sleep in the forest. 18th March - reached Begoro. Describing the journey generally, he reports that much of the way they travelled by the Bungkrum river, a tributary of the Pompom. The hunters' huts were numerous, and there must be many people in the forest at some times of year. The first 10 hours from the Krobo border was through thin forest, with little shade protection to the traveller. He was highly impressed with the farms around Begoro, writing that you see such a richness in vegetation usually only in alluvial plains like that of the Densu.

04.05.1863

04.05.1863

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