Reports a preaching tour. Spent the first night at Asafo after apparently calling in many of the houses in the village to talk to the people. Kukurantumi - decided that the baptismal candidate has still to wait a little. The school is falling in…
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…
Christians are already setting out to build houses in the Christian village in Kibi - at the time of writing 3 had been started, and a 'respectable’ carpenter and mason had also decided to ask to build a house there. He describes a preaching journey…
Reporting inter al his recent journey to Accra in pursuit of money – he did the journey to Accra in 3 days instead of the usual 4-6 by not going via Akwapim, and instead taking the Akim merchant’s road which leads more or less directly south. It…
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…
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…
The delay over starting the Kibi station is connected with the fact that Atta had been in Akwapim for a long time and was travelling back to Kibi very slowly (Strömberg met him on the road both as he went and returned from a short stay in Akropong at…
He has made a preaching journey to Kibi while waiting for the situation to develop so that he could actually settle himself there. The preaching journey had the result that the Kibi people now know more clearly what his objectives are in going there…
The report is printed in extenso as an annex to the Annual Report 1862 of the Mission, pp10-17. Additional material: In Tafo some young men asked for a scholl. The Catechist Adolf Burckhardt has been with them in Kibi during the second part of the…
During Strömberg’s absence in Akropong he had to translate a letter aent from the Governor to King Atta for him. The chief of Asiakwa, which like the Gyadams, 65 years ago migrated from Asante but serves king Atta, has asked for a teacher. A…
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