"Ramseyer to the Gold Coast General Conference"

Asks for directions in the contingency a favourable answer is received. Someone should stay there. Ramseyer is arguing that although Ph. Kwabi, the catechist stationed in Mpraeso, would be prepared to go to Kumasi and stay there alone as the Basel Mission's representative if they were permitted to start a mission in Kumasi, he should not because he might be recognised as one who in his time went with Sartorius; also he was mixed up in an event in Nkwatia in 1881 when it appeared the Kwahus were going to Asante. Ramseyer in the end offers to stay himself, and for that reason to take his wife on the expedition. Josef Müller however, in an appended note argues that this is not within the terms of the expedition set by the Committee in Basel. The final decision was that catechist Esau Ofori who was remarked for Kumasi should the station be set up, should accompany Ramseyer and Asante on the expedition.

26.06.1882

26.06.1882

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