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…
He takes back his request to resign - thinking over the situation he is still worried about his mother, but thinks that the fact that he has learned Twi (and has had one piece of bible translation in the language approved by the Censur Commission)…
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…
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…
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 part of this letter is quoted in the Heidenbote 1860, p.20. There is some additional material. In June the Kibi camp seems to have been in the region of Tekyiman, which Strömberg describes as a town under Kukurantumi. Not only Gyadam but Mosiaso…
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…
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…
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