"Buck to Basel"

Reports the deportation and imprisonment of Ata in Lagos. Knows nothing about his successor unfortunately the Christian branch of the family is too a young-- the oldest is 16 and in the school in Akropong. He reckons the work in Kibi will be hindered somewhat by secret opposition on the part of the powerful party who supported the king. The 25 Kibi catechumens have remained faithful through the period of the trial, though when Buck returned to Kibi they were all scattered and it was going to take him some time to gather them all together for a baptism service. One of the Asiakwa people found guilty of involvement in ritual murder was John Ansah, who had been baptised in March 1878 - that is 3-4 years after the incident for which he was given 10 years deportation. That all this had happened with so little trouble showed 'that the king had very little ground under his feet'. He had repeatedly asked his chiefs to go to Accra but they had not, and the Begorohene rather left Accra - where he was on other business - hurriedly

23.05.1880

23.05.1880

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