Reports that because of the difficulty of getting Akims to do regular work, they brought in Accra workmen for their building operations. With them came a lockmaker who asked for a place to live and work on the station, and because there was no smith…
Reports that reconciliation with the Okyenhene was bound up with Asante’s mission in Begoro. When Asante eventually made contact with the Kwahu man who was to take the message to Kumasi the Okyenhene heard of it and required the man to be arrested…
Contains the information that at the end of May Atta passed through Kukurantumi and took Strömberg with him to Kibi, so that the Kibi station had really started. Asiakwa he now says had asked for a catechist - the people had come from Asante 30 years…
Reports preaching particularly well received in Kukurantami and Sekimase (near Kibi). In Kukurantami they offered to build a house for a missionary who came to live there.
Includes a description of street-preaching one Sunday in the main street at Gyadam - a circle of hearers around Süss. A fetish procession came down the street, but made a detour around side streets to avoid the circle listening to Süss – Kromer…
Again reports a ready audience in street preaching away from Gyadam. There is war excitement in the Kibi villages in the first week in January, and Agyeman has decided to migrate to Swedru, but to have a battle with Kibi first.
The Christians had only at the end of 1865 decided to settle themselves on Mission Land. Teacher Ewyi is a Kukurantumi man, and though he has many good qualities is too timid about getting into conflict with Kukurantumi families to exercise proper…
Describing the station at Gyadam says it is “negermässig”, i.e. after the fashion of a local hamlet – two huts were actually built, and a third was still only being built and was intended for the use of himself and Hönger. The plantation was simply a…
Mentions the possible payment of the debt of 36 dollars by which the Kukurantumi Christian Paul Teaseye is pawned and the question sent to the Basel Committee for their answer since the money would have to be provided by them.
It is a first report of the fight between Christians and fetish-servers also mentioned in his report for 1865 (see No. 33). The two descriptions of the event tally: and in this report the detail is added that he actually heard the anti-Christian…
Reports that when it was announced that the they were to run a boarding school Atta immediately asked how much the boys would receive for attending, and when told that they would get board and clothing issued the following laws: That no-one was to…
Kromer reports that the chiefs of Begoro, Asiakwa and Kukurantumi have visited them more than once. The Asiakwa chief named Diedu is not loved by the Okyenhene whom he often openly accuses. His town and the villages under it are more open to the…
Reporting a palaver in the second half of July. About 80 people brought as embassy from the Governor and 3 different Fante kings. Among them were 2 locally born officers, and a local preacher of the Methodist Church in Anomabu called Gyade. For the…
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