Includes reports concerning relations with the Okyenhene. His drinking is so serious that he elders are becoming opposed to him. Also he seized an Accra man working on the station for debt, and only after much pressure from the mission accepted…
Gives the names of the recently baptised: In Kukurantumi Jonas Pabi, Adolph Anokye, Benj. Joshua Tachumase, Emmanuel Owu-adere, David Afum, Daniel Osei. In Kibi Georg Bonte. He reports that among Agyeman’s other crimes towards the Asantes was the…
Concerns finance on the station - he is apparently still using gold dust, reckons to lose 10% in the weighing process, and finds provisions cost up to 40% more in Kibi than in Akropong.
Includes an extended account of his journey from Krobo to Begoro, partly printed in Heidenbote 1863 p117f. The object of his journey was to get masons and sawyers. He was only able to employ one of each, however. 14th March - set out from Odumase…
Discussing finance, comes to the problem of paying the debts of employees. Cases offered as occurring recently in Kibi: - A servant of Strömberg's who to employ he had to pay 5 dollars, and shortly after Strömberg was presented with the alternative…
Part of this report is printed in Heidenbote 1863 pp114f. The Asante embassy was ordered to Accra by the Colonial Government, tried to escape on the way, but was captured. Two Accra men came to Kibi to take a hostage to Accra as surety of the King…
Reports the same information as Kromer (see No 12), also that the-chief of Kukurantumi (Ampaw) had been in charge of a force of 1000 men on the western frontier of Akim. He had been able to send a message that only the Asante rearguard stood south of…
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…
Reflects on his having been two years in Africa – his two comrades who journeyed from Basel with him both having died. Among the Kibi catechumens is a man born a house-slave who himself now owns two slaves. He was wounded in the shoulder - a fight…
Includes a short section on Kibi. It refers to Abraham Atitsogbe, who bought the slave of an Asante who was killed in the recent fighting between Asante and Akim for 3 dollars. He then made her his wife, with the concurrence of the missionaries,…
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