"Kromer's Report for the Second Quarter of 1869"

He has been teaching arithmetic in the Kibi school - they apparently teach gold-dust reckoning as well, since he remarks that one can see how much more difficult it is to do arithmetic in the Kibi school from a table of relative values: 1 pesewa = 1.125 pence 1 dama = 2 1/4 ipence. 1 kokowa = 4 1/2 pence 1 nteku = 6.75 pence 8 nteku = 1 dollar Kramer reports the case of the lapse of Mose Efoa, a schoolboy who had had a good reputation with them, and had been baptised by Eisenschmid. He had stayed away from school for a short while, and on his return it transpired that he had been at his home (Dadeantem) where he had been involved in a severe quarrel with a man and had sworn an oath on his mother in order to gain credence for his evidence when he had been before the elders. He was not put under discipline on his return, but soon disappeared again. The two missionaries visited Dadeantem soon after and found that the people there had just carried the corpse of a dead man, and the family of the woman on whose house the corpse had bumped took the initiative in keeping the missionaries out of the village, so that they had to preach to a very small group on its outskirts. They learned, however, that the woman who was now regarded as a witch was Mose Efoa's mother, end that probably that oath was the thing which had enabled the elders to begin to rob the woman (who was wealthy) of all property and honour. Efoa had no intention of returning to the mission circle this time. Street preaching in Kibi is described as regularly attended by strangers who are continually there, also by Kibi people, the elder Asare Kansari being especially in evidence. The women, though still not taking part in street preaching, are attaching themselves to the girls who live with the mission households. 23 Asantes are in the block in Kibi.

28.07.1869

28.07.1869

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