"Kromer's Report for the Third Quarter of 1869"

Some of the schoolboys had hoped that the missionaries, acting as their fathers, would provide them with weapons for the war. Akim had been urged to join the alliance against Asante by messengers from the native king of Accra, and the ‘Fante Confederation’. The request from these ambassadors was that the Akims should do something to cut off the Asante forces in Crepe - part of the Asante route to Crepe was across Akim territory. The Akim response to this, after a war-council in Kibi, was to cut off trade with Asante which up till then had still been carried on. Within 4 days 36 prisoners had been brought in - merchants captured as they tried to carry on their trade. Later (9th August) a letter from Mader advising Kromer to move his family to Accra had arrived simultaneously with the shin-bone of the Asante captured in the Akropong plantations. The Bomoso incident was one in which three Bomosu men in an advanced position keeping an eye on the merchant's road to Asante had been attacked, and two killed. There has been yet another case of adultery in Kukurantumi. There is now only one member of the congregation - a man called Jakob - who has not been guilty of this sin.

06.10.1869

06.10.1869

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