Writes that one argument against having a mission station in Krakye town is that it is inadvisable to have a mission station near a government post. He also offers estimates of the numbers in the tribes to the north and northeast of Buem, though…
Includes the point that the German Government official in Krakye has offered to send him ex-slave children for his school; that the chief of Agba wants to send a son to the school in Akropong, that he was being brought a large number of illnesses and…
Announces the almost complete destruction of his property in a fire at Bismarckburg. Inter al his cloth and grey baft had been destroyed, and so was his store of which he was using since the people will not accept English or German money. The fire…
He advises that Akabu and Akposo must be regarded as Bremen areas - it is impossible to work in that district with Twi. Eliminating alternative sites to Adele for a new station for European missionaries he advises that Buem is too far south, and…
Dates of the journey 27 March -9 April 1895; No 129 is a map of the journey. He gives the objective of his journey surveying the district in order to find a suitable place for a European Mission station to serve the Krakye-Buem-Adele area.…
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