323 20 77964 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.II. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875 Title A name given to the resource Christiansborg Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.III. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875 Title A name given to the resource Abokobi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.IV. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875 Title A name given to the resource Ga-District Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.V. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875 Title A name given to the resource Odumase Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.VI. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875 Title A name given to the resource Ada Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.VII. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875 Title A name given to the resource Akwap / Akem Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.IX. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875 Title A name given to the resource Aburi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.11.1875 Proper date: 24.11.1875 Description An account of the resource Buhl is the mission treasurer. Report of a journey to Begoro to purchase land; it costs 140 Dollars. On the way back they met one captain Hale with a detachment of soldiers. His mission was to discover whatever had happened to Gouldsburry. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.I..46 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.I. - General Conference Title A name given to the resource Buhl to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 21.04.1875 Proper date: 21.04.1875 Description An account of the resource Additional comments to accompany Mohr’s letter of 22 March 1875 (see No 254). This letter is printed in parts in the pamphlet “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Begoro is built four square and is greater both in number of houses and number of inhabitants than Kibi. The estimate of 5000 inhabitants is probably too high, however. It is certainly no bigger than Akropong. The population are not scattered in farming hamlets. The town is the most beautiful he has seen in Akim, only Gyadam in its time could have compared with it. They are a farming and not gold-digging people. There are villages belonging to Begoro on the plains to both sides of the hills – on the west Fankeneko and Dome, Samang and Osino. Those to the east are not named – there are several of them. There are only hunter’s paths to Kwahu and Akwapim (to Adukrom, and through there reaching Krobo). Mader thinks that now the fear of the Asantes has disappeared; routes will become opened up, however. He offers the suggestion that the gold-diggers organise their labour force partly by means of augmenting their number of wives. The colonial government has succeeded in getting the Akim chiefs to have the roads cleaned. The Okyenhene himself is well-disposed towards the mission, but his elders still play the scoundrel - 2 sheep have recently been stolen from Asante, in the second case it was returned after Asante had told the Okyenhene that if this did not happen he would ask him to pay for it. It is said that the Okyenhene has received a sum of money from the English Government for road-work and though he should have divided it among his subchiefs he is supposed to have kept it. He is building a two storey stone house. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.VIII..182 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.VIII. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Mader to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 13.05.1875 Proper date: 13.05.1875 Description An account of the resource (Cornelius seems to have been the catechist sent one week ahead of Mohr and Mader on their exploratory visit to Begoro). He preached there twice a day, from 7 to 8 in the morning, and 5 to 6.30 in the evening. He remarks that the poor people have the custom of washing and eating before going to their farms. They grow rice, yams, groundnuts and corn. They often shoot wild buffalo, apes, deer etc. They have a fetish prohibition over eating fish either from a well-stocked nearby pond or from the rivers. Cornelius however caught two fish and cooked them for his supper, one night. There is also a large tree to the south of the town which is regarded as a fetish. Cornelius remarks that one day when he was preaching about God would forgiving sins an old fetish priest said to him that he did not think God would forgive him his sins because he had been the ruin of so many people. He explained that when his fetish had caused the death of a person the fetish came onto possession of that persons property – so he had often given poison to well-to-do people. Nevertheless said Cornelius forgiveness was for him too. (No 185 is almost exactly the same text as No 184). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.VIII..184/185 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.VIII. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Cornelius to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.26.VII. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.26 - Ghana 1874 Title A name given to the resource Odumase Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.26.VIII. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.26 - Ghana 1874 Title A name given to the resource Ada Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 01.07.1875 Proper date: 01.07.1875 Description An account of the resource Last paragraph: The slave emancipation is causing a lot of dust to rise. In Kibi it is said the young king is mishandling the slaves who no longer want to remain in his service, and the government must intervene there if the emancipation is to be anything more than a paper law. In Akwapim too it is happening that slaves who have run away from their masters are being caught and sent back. The missionaries in Kibi have written a letter (it arrived in Christiansborg the same day as this letter was written) asking the Commandant be informed of the situation, and appealing for a reliable group of police to go there to protect the slaves. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.I..5 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.I. - General Conference Title A name given to the resource Widmann to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 15.05.1875 Proper date: 15.05.1875 Description An account of the resource Informs the Basel Committee of Asante’s requests for a ruling on the number of boarding pupils he may take in the school at Kibi. He has given a temporary ruling of 30, but would like Basel's approval for 50, on the grounds - that the boys will come to the school with no resources, being ex-slaves and ex-pawns - that Akim needs as much of a school population as Akwapim - that a large school will help to balance the striking reduction in the population of Kibi town. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.I..13 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.I. - General Conference Title A name given to the resource Mader to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 22.03.1875 Proper date: 22.03.1875 Description An account of the resource The bulk of this letter is printed in a Basel Mission pamphlet under the title “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Travelling Akropong-Kibi-Begoro Mohr mentions the following: At Kukurantumi the Christians village consisted of 7 huts 5 minutes away from the main village. He locates the greatest concentration of gold diggings as being on the route from Pano and Tete eastwards – there are stretches there where are holes dug every two or three steps. Graves are outside the villages marked by pots, sometimes there is food to be seen on them, and sometimes on a stick framework a piece of cloth or a feather hangs over them. There is always a 2’ high palisade before you enter a village to keep the spirits out. The big villages he finds characteristic and this contrasts with Akwapim where people spend nights out in the plantation villages. Here and there on the houses you see well-built doors with locks. From Tete the route went Sagyimase-Nsutam-Fankyeneko-Dome-Akurum-Atopasin-Begoro. Mohr notes that at one place Mader preached in twi, and was followed by one of the carriers who explained in simple language what Mader had meant: throw away your fetishes and pray to Jesus. In another place a crowd was gathered for street preaching by shouting “Mommera-o”. A catechist made a start with John 3.16, Mohr himself (in English) preached about the disease of sin being inspired to do so by the many sick who were brought to them in the village. When Mader was preaching once an old man got up and explained he was going to get his pipe, but Mader ordered him to sit down and hear the word of God. In one village some fetish procession or other approached them but several members of the party called out “Look out the great fetish-priest-breaker (Obroakomfo) is here” and the people ran away leaving behind two small bells which the three members of the seminary who were accompanying seized with great glee. Their reception in these villages was on the whole welcoming, except that in Nsutam they found it difficult to buy a hen for super. On at least two occasions the hen was bought and in the possession of the missionaries it was taken back because it had to be offered to the fetish. One factior which Mohr identifies as contributing to the quality of their reception was the curiosity which people showed about new things- Mader’s glasses caused a sensation in Nsutam. A further point about routes: from Begoro, as far as Mohr could find out, it was 4 days journey to Kwahu and there are no villages for most of the way. From Kibi it would have been three days journey via Asiakwa, Samang, Osino, Gyadam, Moseaso and Anyinam. In Begoro they had very good reception which may be partly accounted for by the fact that they sent a catechist one week ahead of them. But he had the impression especially among the younger generation (of whom he noticed a great preponderance at a political gathering which he saw). He saw more than once men say to each other with childlike joy “Onyankopon asam aba”. Of Begoro in general he says little except that the street is 25' wide, and set with 42 shade trees. They were interested at the near panic which occurred the first evening after their arrival when drums were heard in the north. It turned out to the one of the sub-chiefs of Kwahu coming unannounced to ask for the Begorohene’s intervention in a dispute. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.XI..254 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.XI. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel - Report concerning an Exploratory Journey to Begoro Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 26.12.1875 Proper date: 26.12.1875 Description An account of the resource Discussing the problem of finding a labour force for building the Begoro mission buildings he points out that there is an advantage in teaching Akem people to do the jobs, since if you bring in strangers you have to pay their debts before bringing them so far into the interior. He is nevertheless hoping to bring some masons and sawyers come to Begoro from Akwapim in the next year. He is having struggles getting agreement at prices which he feels are appropriate for the various jobs for which he was to pay. The situation has been exacerbated by the fact that 2 weeks before his arrival (in the first week of December) the Begoro men and their king had to go Kibi on account of the war, and seem to have used their time getting information of the prices which the mission payed for things in Kibi, which they now have an inflate idea. Eventually rent was agreed 2 dollars for Mohr’s house, and 1 ½ for the Catechists. People were wanting 1 shilling and sometimes even as much as ½ dollar for a days’ work (the mission wants to pay 6d). Mohr mentions that in Kukurantumi the carriers had refused to go to the coast for less than 2 dollars per load. One important development is that within a week of arriving there are 15 male baptismal candidates, some of them with wives and children. Their seriousness was tested by their being asked to work on the mission buildings for 6d a day, and they agreed. The catechist’s name is Oben. The final passage concerns the situation in Akim. Part is based on information circulating. He had been based on Kibi before setting out for Begoro, though also had travelled to Aburi. The sending of Bonnat and Prince Ansah to Salaga should have ended the conflict, but they were prevented from doing this by the Juabens. In the period when neither the Asantes nor the Juabens were gaining a decisive advantage in the fighting the Juabens sent the jawbones of executed prisoners of war to Kibi, Akropong and Accra meaning to ask whether they should fight against the Asantes. Dr Gouldberry’s visit was surrounded by rumours - at one stage he seemed to have disappeared. Mohr says he knows little about the course of the war except that the Juabens have come to Akem as refugees, and are now scattered in many of the Akim villages. Dome, near Fankyeneko which since the slave emancipation had been deserted, is now peopled by Asantees. The king of Juaben arrived in Kibi on the evening of 9th December with only 15 of his 200 wives. A letter arrived from the governor on December 13th asking whether he proposed to remain in the Protectorate, and if so forbidding him, to engage in military operations against Asante. On the same day he sent a reply that he had decided to remain in the protectorate – he has already pointed out a site for settlement between Ahabante and Kukurantumi. This means the English have gone some way to fulfilling their policy of getting Akem settled. From Kwahu there is news that there are two parties, one wanting to maintain the Asante connection, the other not. Kumasi ambassadors sent to Kwahu have been imprisoned and brought to Kibi, and exactly how things will shape in the future is not clear. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.XI..255 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.XI. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.05.1875 Proper date: 06.05.1875 Description An account of the resource (This letter is printed more or less in full in the pamphlet “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission", 1875) They went by the Begoro route, and saw in that town the snail harvest – the women returning each with a 60 pound load, gathered in the course of one day. The route was through deserted country – they had to bivouac the first two nights, they third they spent in a small gathering of empty huts, which, seem to have been their only sight of human influence except for a hunting family who had a house at the mid-point of their journey, and who were able to sell them antelope and monkey flesh. Werner had a tent, Asante and Handel had only their hammocks. Werner had a revolver. They crossed the Kwahu-Akem border at a place where it is marked by the river Aurupong. The actual town sites which they visited were: Ntesso - the first – consisting of 20-30 huts. The chief there was the man whom Asante hand sent on a secret mission to the prisoners in Asante. He complained much of the debts which he had incurred in the course of the Asante war, and how they had been badly handled by the Asantes on account of the mission which he had tried to perform for the missionaries. Tafo – a short journey from Ntesso, where they were lodged in the king’s house. Abetifi – they were received with suspicion until they made it clear they were not from the Accra government. They were impressed by the industriousness of the Abetifi people; seeing there at least one weaver; and spinning, dying, carding; A maker of wooden bowls, there was a lot of mat-making going on, and there was a smith too. Aduamo they passed. Obo, the biggest town of Kwahu, with several thousand inhabitants. “We saw something new to us in the street – here and there merchants, stalls with cloth, salt, fish, and so on offered for sale”. Five minutes from Obo is the town of Kyeneduruase – to the south west a wooded hill which is sacred to the town. No rice is grown here because it is prohibited by the Prah, but they are not afraid to eat rice. Obomeng – reached from Obo by walking through farms and palm woods. A town distinguished by its broad street and neatly arranged houses. Their general impressions were of a district with a pleasant climate. (Nights as cool as May nights in their home country) and an industrious people. They returned to Kibi by another route, though the first night had to be spent in a bivouac again. After nine hours on the second day they reached Abomosu after what seems to have been particularly difficult trek – Werner says almost every 5 steps there was some sort of obstacle to surmount. They were back in Kibi on the third evening. The manuscript ends with 2 pages of recommendations as to policy over the establishment of new stations. Begoro is clearly not the place for a station as support of a Kwahu station – it is easier by far to travel to Kwahu straight from Kibi, and the coastal traffic to Kwahu passes through Kukurantumi and Kibi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.XII..257 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.XII. - Okwau/Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner to Basel: Report of a Journey from Kibi to Kwahu Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 15.05.1875 Proper date: 15.05.1875 Description An account of the resource In a short attached note to 257 Mader endorses the points mentioned there, though seems to feel a second station in Akim (at Begoro) is a more straightforward step than establishing one in Kwahu, in view of the political situation in Asante. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.XII..258 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.XII. - Okwau/Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Mader to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.04.1875 Proper date: 29.04.1875 Description An account of the resource The report is printed fairly full in Heidenbote 1875 pp66-68. It includes comments about his journeys to Begoro and Kwahu. The alternative route to Kwahu to the Begoro route he describes as going via Abommosu, Asunafo, and Asuom. If the route via Begoro had villages on it, it would have been better than this route in view of the very difficult climb into the Kwahu Mountains from this site. When the king in Abetifi heard of the purpose of their journey, he said “My whole land lies before you and what it pleases you later to take for a settlement no-one will object to. I and my land have suffered much from Karikarim, and I have decided to put myself under the protection of the white man so that now white men are to be warmly welcomed in the land. They were everywhere welcomed like the Ambassador of Queen Victoria.” Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.X..247 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.X. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource David Asante's Report for the First Quarter in 1875 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.10.1875 Proper date: 18.10.1875 Description An account of the resource The report is printed in full in Heidenbote 1876, p6. Remarks that since the slave-emancipation by the colonial government, Asante and Kwahu merchants are no longer travelling to the coast via Kibi, but via Kukurantumi. This is because since the slave-emancipation Kibi has lost of its inhabitants. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.27.X..251 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.27 - Ghana 1875: D-01.27.X. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource David Asante's Report for the Third Quarter in 1875