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…
Describes the Dadentam incident. En route for Dadentam he passed 'here and there' men loading their guns in the wood. He in fact operated in Dadentam in company with two linguists from the Okyenhene. They had to spring between the two parties when…
Strömberg cleared the site of the mission building with a labour force of 60, though they were held up for money when the debt was 50 dollars. Kromer apparently has no trained sawyers (people from Kukurantumi will not work in Kibi on account of the…
A part of this letter is printed in the Heidenbote 1861, p.20. Extra material includes the suggestion that they should make a way direct from Kukurantumi to Accra, or at least to Aburi, to avoid the steep hill en route to Akropong at Ahabante.
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