"Christaller's Report for the First Quarter of 1865"

Remarks that it makes him sad to see land which god did not create to be empty unpeopled and uncultivated, and that the Akems export only Kopal varnish to the coast. Having met the chief and elders of Kibi he writes that several are well-disposed to the mission, especially the linguist of the king. He describes the 5 main underchiefs as being in the same relationship to the Kibi chief as the princes of the one-time German Empire had to the Emperor. He has met two of them - Asiakwa 'who has an ear for the truth', and Kukurantumi (well-disposed but not very energetic) who was in Kibi sometime in February and March concerned with a case concerning land which belonged to him but which people from Asafo had sold to an Akwapim man.

31.03.1865

31.03.1865

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