Additional comments to accompany Mohr’s letter of 22 March 1875 (see No 254). This letter is printed in parts in the pamphlet “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Begoro is built…
Buhl is the mission treasurer. Report of a journey to Begoro to purchase land; it costs 140 Dollars. On the way back they met one captain Hale with a detachment of soldiers. His mission was to discover whatever had happened to Gouldsburry.
In a short attached note to 257 Mader endorses the points mentioned there, though seems to feel a second station in Akim (at Begoro) is a more straightforward step than establishing one in Kwahu, in view of the political situation in Asante.
(This letter is printed more or less in full in the pamphlet “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission", 1875) They went by the Begoro route, and saw in that town the snail harvest – the women…
Discussing the problem of finding a labour force for building the Begoro mission buildings he points out that there is an advantage in teaching Akem people to do the jobs, since if you bring in strangers you have to pay their debts before bringing…
The bulk of this letter is printed in a Basel Mission pamphlet under the title “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Travelling Akropong-Kibi-Begoro Mohr mentions the following: At…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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