Contains some information about Süss. In July before Zimmermann went on his journey he met Süss in poor circumstances at Dauromadam – quite isolated - his wife apparently abetting him in his ambitions. On his journey down the Volta to Akropong after…
He has been preaching regularly in the Wesleyan chapel at Akropong, and made a 5 day journey to the Afram Volta confluence specifically to Dode, where he says the people are of great religiosity. In letter No 20, he also discusses the possibilities…
Reports that there are now four baptismal candidates, including one “sent” to Strömberg by Agyeman’s heir, and one a nephew of the king sent to him without his asking for it
The letter is mostly concerned with Akim politics, though his account is not very full. According to him the main cause of the present war (which Atta declared in January of 1860) was a Gyadam elder who had fled to Kibi, and then wanted his family to…
Strömberg reports on the situation in Gyadam (the king’s possessions all stand ready to move in the streets, and the women have already left on the journey to Swedru. The sheep and goats have been all killed too); and proposes that as Agyeman has…
After the battle, Atta retired to Nsutam to repair a lack of gunpowder. (Strömberg visited him en route for Akropong. On the journey onwards from Nsutem Strömberg reports meeting of many Akim war-parties on the way to join the king). Agyeman’s…
A letter from Haas has just arrived in Akropong which shows that the information about Agyeman's attack to Kibi forces is to be false. A Kibi attack has again been repulsed, and although Agyeman wanted to follow up their retreat, he was restrained…
The school in the town was reopened in the middle of January. In Strömberg’s opinion the converts on the Gyadam station with the exception of the Fanteman Edward were all sincere.
The report is a more detailed account of the day-to-day events of March in Gyadam: much of it is printed as an appendix to the annual report for 1860 (p.134). Additional material in the manuscript includes the following: About 15 Gyadam women had…
Mainly devoted to his description of the destruction of Gyadam. It includes another instance of the title European being applied to Africans in European clothes – this time an Accra man working on the Gyadam station was called a European by some…
The letter is partly printed in Heidenbote 1861 p.20 (This with its continuation on p 25 is a catena of quotations from letters concerning Kukurantumi). It includes the additional information that there is plenty- of visible sickness in Kukurantumi.…
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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