Browse Items (77972 total)

Politically a peaceful year, though there is still conflict between Atta and Agyeman over the land on which the latter is settling. The report transmits some material on the history of Akim told to Strömberg by Apietu, a grey-haired elder of Kibi. He…

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…

The station ran out of money for a month or more in July 1861.

Laissle moved to Kibi to help with the building in June 1861.
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2