"Laissle to Basel: Report on the Work of the Commission investigating the Upper Volta District"

Travelling from Okoli to Awletoi passed a series of Ewe villages with a total population or about 2,000: Jyampon (Tyanpon?), Bofeme, Anyanse, Awletoi. Enmity continues between the Pekyi-Anum-Ho alliance, headed by the Pekyi chief, and Akwamu, following the war in 1853 in which most of the Aburam towns (though excluding the capital) were driven onto the right bank of the river. To the list of Kyerepong villages adds Adebose, the first village on the road to Anum from Awletoi. Commenting on building possibilities in the Anum area, reports the local people do not use hardwoods. However, there are large numbers of fan-palms near the villages, from which the local people split beams which they call 'Coco'.

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