"J. Müller’s Report on a Journey around Akim"

En route to Kibi-he visited the evangelist at Asafo - he has 6 boys - who come to school, and a few catechumen. Müller met one catechumen, and saw at once that he was a slave looking for his freedom - 'it often goes like this'. The chief was prepared to lead his people in attending Müller's street preaching. High praise for Imm. Baokye and Bosompem, but Müller remarks that the slave attitude causes unpleasantness. In particular there are a lot of separations between husband and wife. Bosompem's inherited stool was given to the missionaries. Two elders had to be sent to Asiamang where the Christians were being threatened with being driven off their land and out of their houses. The elders carried a threat that the case would go before the English courts if further trouble was caused. To the Kibi schools has been added a middle school. There are 45 pupils in the scholl of the community. On a visit to Tumfa he found the catechist in a house on mission land, another large house accommodated a family, and another small house had been built by a young man. Kola nuts grow in plenty around Tumfa, and the inhabitants take them off to Salaga. In Abomosu 12-15 families have settled on mission land, Abraham Bugyei having built himself a magnificent house with a shingle roof rather on the lines of a catechist's house in Akwapim. Müller stressed there - against widespread delinquency - the importance of regular attendance at service. In Kwabeng one of the carriers asked to take part in street preaching. It turned out that he had been sold by the Asantes to someone in Kwabeng before he went to Kukurantumi and became a Christian.

20.12.1883

20.12.1883

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