"Mohr to Basel"

The letter is marked private. Reports Ata’s death in the find of consumption. His follower had immediately taken him off on the direct way to Kibi to be buried at Banso. Mohr had told the Governor that there was an outstation close by the burial ground which needed protection, but 'the old gentleman' said that he had no officers to spare. However, he asked Mr Cleland to send one of his people to Kibi to protect the Mission property there against damage. At the beginning of January the Asuums had been fined £50 for contempt of court - they had failed to answer charges against them in the Court in Accra. The Governor would have preferred the whole thing to lie in abeyance, but the missionaries could not allow this to happen. He reports a general reaction among the local agents of sending wives back to Akropong, and themselves stopping work until the troubles have ended. Mohr reckons that as Akwapims and strangers nothing would-have happened to them anyway.

03.02.1887

03.02.1887

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