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…
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
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…
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…
There had been considerable problems concerned with keeping the station fed in the second quarter of the year, because the tension with Akwapim was interfering with trade and communications to the coast. Of the Christians baptised by Süss before 1859…
Accompanied by 21 catechist pupils, the catechist Isak Ostertag, 4 carriers, and one boy from his house. He reports a continued demand for a teacher at Kukurantumi, and in Tafo a request for a teacher but he must be African. Odumase is said to belong…
Reports that on the first day out (21 march) they spent the night at Habantew (the last Akropong village) where there were a party of about 12 Asantes with beautifully made baskets full of salt. Missionary discussions with them did not get very far:…
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