Schmid's Report on a Journey through Akim
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XII. - Akropong
description: Report of a visit to Akim with some Akropong schoolboys. It is mainly concerned with the consecration of the church in Kukurantumi; but after that he journeyed further into Akim, and came to Fankyeneko and Begoro. The Begoro people did not leave the town voluntarily on account of fearing that anyone who actually went away would fall under suspicion of having committed the murder. Also that on Good Friday the chief attended service in the church, and was one of the first to come to the place where street preaching was to be held later in the day. Schmid remarks that the Begoro audience was notably attentive - there were few interruptions. Schmid has the jungle beginning after Ahabante. He describes this as involving a thick 'under-wood' of 25'-30' height through which it is very difficult to force a way, but now and again has been cut down and burnt for farms. The Akims do not touch the tall trees, ever to the extent of not artificially making a tree-trunk bridge, then they take benefit from such bridges once they have been made by a storm. Describing the arrival of the groups to celebrate the consecration of the Kukurantumi Chapel Schmid notes that some came singing. One of the Begoro groups was led by a man with a large flag. The Kibi school pupils were singing in 4 parts, and so were the Akropong middle school boys. The collection was 330 Marks, of which the Kukurantumi chief contributed 2 Marks. Commenting on Kibi he writes that the Christian village is 5 minutes away from the old town. This is depopulated - following the imprisonment of Ata the emancipation of slaves has occurred one large scale and the former inhabitants have scattered themselves in farming villages having lost their support. The 'king's palace' of an earlier resort was a 2-storey stone house - not yet completed - since work on it was abandoned the staircases has already collapsed. He is very rude about the inhabitants remaining in Kibi. They are the ex-servants of the ring and live a life of l…
date: Date early: 10.05.1881
date: Proper date: 10.05.1881

Buck to Basel
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: The letters No. 205, 213, 214 and 215 belong together. A summary is given in Letter No. 215.
date: Date early: 07.02.1881
date: Proper date: 07.02.1881

Buck and Huppenbauer: Report of the Journey to Kumasi
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: The letters No. 205, 213, 214 and 215 belong together. A summary is given in Letter No. 215.
date: Date early: 26.02.1881
date: Proper date: 26.02.1881

Buck and Huppenbauer: Report of the Journey to Kumasi
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: The letters No. 205, 213, 214 and 215 belong together. A summary is given in Letter No. 215.
date: Date early: 01.03.1881
date: Proper date: 01.03.1881

Buck and Huppenbauer: From Kyebi to Kumasi and back
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: The letters No. 205, 213, 214 and 215 belong together. A summary of the four letters is given here. A report of the journey is also printed in "Der Heidenbote", 1881, pp 43ff (based on No. 213). The letter No. 215 is printed for the Friends of the Asante Mission, June 1881. Reports having had 5000 troops march by them - they reckoned that 50,000 people were present at their ceremonial welcome. The letter No. 215 is not a comprehensive translation, although it has a calculation which seems to be absent from the version in the “Heidenbote” and indeed from Letter No. 213 that they passed through 79 inhabited places, in most of which they preached. The letter No. 214 seems to be independent. Huppenbauer offers as part-justification for the journey the idea that the missionaries must be much more mobile if they are to have their full effect. In discussing their journey towards Kumasi Huppenbauer mentions the stretch of deserted woodland which stretches between Akim and Asante, and says that the Akim people have many horrifying creatures - one an enormous man clothed in iron. To prove his existence they told the story 80 hunters who went in search of him, only one of whom returned with a frequent of the iron, which was now a fetish in a village which the missionaries visited on their return journey. The fetish Huppenbauer says was an old European helmet gone rusty - they concluded it must have belonged to some earlier slave-raider who had been killed or in some other way lost the helmet. Describing the street preaching at Yayaso on the first night after leaving Asnum, Huppenbauer writes that it is no good when you are the first person to preach in a village talking about salvation in Christ, when the people have no idea that there is a living God, and have no idea what sin is. Instead you have to persuade them with different examples that there is a God who rules over men; and then by talking about the commandments you introduce the idea of sin. After Huppenbauer had fini…

D. Huppenbauer's Report for the Year 1881
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: He reports a 22-house Christian village in Kibi and 14 house-village in Kukurantumi. Of the other Christian centres he reports changes in Tumfa where a catechist's house has been built, Asiamang and Apedwa where a house was in the process of being built. Buck spent most of the year on furlough for his health, Missionary Burckhardt spent some months in Kibi, but was then switched with Munz from Begoro. Huppenbauer married at the end of the year. Date was posted from Abomosu to Kibi as Buck left, and during the year Anoba was ordained deacon and transferred from Kibi to Abomosu. At the time of Buss' death he was working on the 2-storey Kibi mission house. During the year the 2-storey house was completed its latter stages by Huppenbauer and Munz. It was a bad year for sickness among both local people and missionaries. At one time 7 people died in 6 days in Apedwa and at the same time 6 died in Apapam, while Date was finding 1 or 2 deaths in each of a string of little villages which he passed through. The missionaries suffered from many fevers, and were without Kissinger Water the whole year, Census - an increase in the total community of the district to 703, after 52 baptisms, 44 of them adults. Huppenbauer discusses in generalities the point that this is a much smaller rate of increase than in the preceding year, but argues for himself that he knows that this is not just a matter of sowing and letting the seed grow of itself, also cites a son of Ata saying that every time they preach a corn falls onto the gold-scales and sooner or later they must register this. Discussing geographical tactics Huppenbauer writes as if torn between the problem of devoting adequate time to the existing community, and responding to the promising developments characteristic of West Akim. In Osanase an ex-pupil of the school has built a temporary chapel and a house for a catechist. Two paragraphs appear to complain about new financial regulations. The school has suffered a palpable blow thr…
date: Date early: 10.01.1882
date: Date late: 14.01.1882
date: Proper date: 10.01.1882-14.01.1882

Buck to Basel
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: There is correspondence about financial administration at Kibi in March-May of this year. It is opened by a Basel Committee letter dated 14 March 1881 (presumably to find in the D-2 series). Folio 41-2 in which the points are made: 1. that the collection of money from the community for a new chapel was not done in a proper way 2. that the Kibi missionaries had done wrong in transgressing a printed rule dated 27 January 1879 that no money was to be lent to private people out of local church funds. The missionaries were to collect the debts as quickly as possible, their own salaries being held security. Point 2 is clarified by this letter. Buck takes full responsibility, since no sums had been lent out for over a year. The money was in fact lent out of the Poor Fund, specifically for Christians left naked by war, converts who in the process of conversion had lost everything and could not marry, people who were being held back from conversion by small debts they owed. All loan were made at small percentage interest, no-one was allowed more than £3, and the Presbyters underwrote every acknowledgement of debt. The debts are repaid slowly, but no-one has failed. He felt this was a proper procedure in view of the numbers of people entering the community who were more or less without possessions. Point 1 is discussed in a long letter by Huppenbauer. It appears that the contribution of the Kibi community to the Chapel-building fund was obtained by accountancy manipulations, the members of the community being themselves unconscious of what was being done.
date: Date early: 13.04.1881
date: Proper date: 13.04.1881

Koranteng to Basel
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: In the recent past the community had lost two adults (including a Presbyter) by death and. 6 children, 4 adults were excluded. In the building of the new chapel the pulpit and altar were built by Buss in Kibi and transported to Kukurantumi. They had difficulty finding a mason, but in the end Buck sent one. One of the first enquirers from Osiem was a young man who was known to Koranteng as a leading, interrupter of street preaching and a leader of a group of young men. His explanation for his changing over was that he had found fetishes and charms were nothing, while 'the ways of Christians are right'. His old companions considered fining him a sheep and some drinks for dishonouring the fetish to whom they had all sworn unchanging loyalty. Koranteng advised him that the problem was Satan being annoyed at having lost him, told him to tell the people to leave Satan to make his own revenge. The idea of fining him was finally dropped. Three more converts have come from Tafo complaining that fetishes mean nothing but trouble and debts. He describes the consecration of the new church at Kukurantumi: 5 missionaries, 3 deacons, 5 catechists, and 2 evangelists were present. There were school pupils from both Kibi and Akropong, both acting as choirs. After the service of consecration in the morning another service was held in the afternoon at which two of the missionaries spoke, followed by 2 deacons, 5 catechists and both evangelists 'with intervention of singings by both the schools'. The occasion inspired a nephew of the chief to come forward as a catechumen after he had been considering the step for a long time.
date: Date early: 28.05.1881
date: Proper date: 28.05.1881

D. Huppenbauer's Report for the Second Quarter of 1881
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: The first part of the report is a lament at the lack of local personnel, with acerbic footnotes from J. Müller indicating that the lack is not so severe as depicted. Huppenbauer suggests an Evangelists' School in Kibi - they have 3 young men in mind for this. The later part of the report is mostly about building and travelling difficulties in view of the unusually heavy rains. In a subscript Eisenschmid as General Präses points out that all available personnel had been sent into Akim in previous years. At the end of the current school year there were two graduates from the Seminary available for the Twi district, at the same time Catechist Meyer 'inwardly dead' had left the service of the mission.
date: Date early: 01.07.1881
date: Proper date: 01.07.1881

Date's Report
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: He describes his career in Akim, and the contrast between what it was like in 1869, and the situation as he was writing.
date: Date early: 11.07.1881
date: Proper date: 11.07.1881

D. Huppenbauer's Report for the Third Quarter of 1881
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: The report is printed almost in its entirety in Heidenbote 1882, pp.11ff.
date: Date early: 12.10.1881
date: Proper date: 12.10.1881

Munz to Basel
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: A general report of his travels in the 3rd quarter of the year, the first of which had taken place while he was still a Begoro missionary. He stresses the usefulness of visiting small villages where you can meet people as individuals and talk to them. He mentions visiting a little village Akankese in the Begoro area, for example, and 'several' small farming villages around Anyipam, including one of 4 houses and 30 inhabitants built by 'Asantes'. In describing a visit to Asuum he notes that be had been led to believe that Asuum was South-West of Bomso, but it is in fact in the West of that place. South-West of Asuum is Otumi (2 hours), and 1 hour west of Otumi is Twea. From Twea a path goes through Kade to the coast, which after it has that the main route through Asuum and Obogu branches again towards Kwahu. In the Asuum area the gospel is well-known, and so are Buck and Date. In Bomso several young men were eager to be taught to read to be able the Word of God, and took the opportunity of Munz' visit to get some of his attendants to teach them the Lord's Prayer and the 10 Commandments. Asuum he describes as a town of money and trade. In Abompe he went to see the chief Dompre, who lay on his death-bed. When he woke up Munz talked to him about the nothingness of fetishes. It turned out that Dompre had been taught 'by Sissi' (Süss) in the school at Akropong. On his way back to Kibi from Kade Munz found that the Berem plains were well populated by people living in small farming villages. They live rather isolated.
date: Date early: November 1881
date: Proper date: November 1881

Ramseyer to Basel
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XV. - Abetifi
description: Reporting his presence in Aburi and the fact that for several months they had heard in Abetifi rumours that the Asantes were buying up arms and ammunition - he mentions Snyder rifles specifically - but that at the moment when letters come to him from Buhl and Eisenschmid advising their evacuation from Abetifi in view of the likelihood of war Kwahu was peaceful. However in view of the fact that his wife was unable to walk any distance Ramseyer felt that it was his responsibility to take his wife away from the station while they could easily got carriers. Dilger was already at Begoro for a short holiday. He obviously feels that rumours are endemic in Akan society, although he places some credence in the idea that some Kwahu chiefs are keen to restore links with Asante (partly to restore their lost prestige, and partly in order to be again empowered to execute the death penalty). However the 'young veople' comprising 2/3 of the population, are against them. Providing the changeover did not happen after a war, he is quite prepared to see Kwahu come under Asante rule, and does not think it would harm their work.
date: Date early: 19.02.1881
date: Date late: 20.02.1881
date: Proper date: 19.02.1881-20.02.1881

Year's Report of the Station for 1881
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIV. - Begoro
description: Concerning the personnel of the station, at the time of writing, the station staff included Chr. Burckhardt. Sakyi is still listed as a catechist. There is in this report a list of the 77 places in Akim Abuakwa which lie in the Kibi mission area. Only three places are listed as Juaben villages - Koforidua, Asokore, and Owoko. The map is part of his argument that the area of the Begoro station ought to be extended to take over some of the responsibilities of the Kibi station. In the bulk of the report he says firstly that positive belief in the fetishes is declining - two fetishes were actually brought to him during the course of the year by their owners who had no further use for them. But Christianity demands too much for many of them: For example, the Begoro people have a number of public festivals in which dancing plays an important part, which are led by 'clubs', and it is very difficult for people to break away from them. Another problem is the older people, who do not want to be left with no-one to make custom for them after their deaths (He mentions in this conection specifically many young men). The fetish priests have also been damaged in their authority by a series of deaths occurring in Begoro town which were not matched on the mission station. Many people are now living god-less as a result. Several old people, and several women, are among the roll of the newly baptised, and there are now 6 blessed marriages and the first new Christian marriage is shortly to be .celebrated. There is still difficulty about getting unmarried Christian men wives, however, The Begoro girls want to be wooed in the traditional way, and a search for wives among the Christian communities of Akwapim and Kukurantumi has born no results. Sunday services are very satisfactorily attended, and so are street preachings by the heathen. They have been less successful getting adult Christians to go to a weekly evening school – they are finding it difficult to get any results teaching adul…
date: Date early: 02.01.1882
date: Proper date: 02.01.1882

Report by Mohr after an Investigation of the Facts in Discussion with Sakyi, 21-22 March 1881
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIV. - Begoro
description: Disciplinary Proceedings over the months April-Juli 1881 over Catechist Sakyi It is not clear from where the investigation started, except that it cannot have been from Begoro, since Mohr writes strongly in defence of Sakyi. Comparatively little is added to the earlier report from Mohr about Sakyi (No 1880/156 above) except that there had apparently been some occasions of 'irregular' behaviour between him and his wife before they were married. His first major success in trading was in ivory, and this followed in train on his being refused permission to go to Salaga with Buss after he had got together resources for the journey. He was charged too with receiving money to write letters or speak for people, but as far as Mohr could see they boiled down to very few occasions. One was his speaking for the refuges from Obo before the court of the Abetifi chief when Missionary Werner knew about the payment. He refused to take £1 from another old man who was in difficulties establishing his right to some ivory, although he later found that the man had paid 1 dollar to the Christians. He had received money on several occasions, especially in Kibi writing letters to the government. Mohr reports that he plead very vehemently against being dismissed as he recognised he deserved, since he had determined to serve the mission for the rest of his life. And Mohr himself reports that he was an exemplary catechist. To this is added (b) opinions from the senior figures in the mission on the Coast - Müller who seems to have taken an active part in the investigations. He reports that he can find nothing out about the report that Sakyi was an agent for a merchant in Accra. Also he has found in an old letter of Ramseyers the report that Sakyi had dealt in traditional medicine, and indeed "Old Anokwa” who had once been with Buss and deals in traditional medicine was recently in Begoro, but Müller could not find out what his business was. The balance of opinions it in favour of keeping Sakyi …
date: Date early: 01.04.1881
date: Proper date: 01.04.1881

Munz' Report for the First Quarter of 1881
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIV. - Begoro
description: His work at the Begoro station involves mostly language study, but he also helps Mohr sometimes in his farming. One problem for every missionary; is to find a balance between the natural withdrawal from the importunateness of Africans, and the need for an outward-going love of them. He offers a brief account of a journey from Begoro to Abetifi and back with a party of part Christian and part heathen carriers. The foreman seems to have been one Joshua of Fankyeneko. While there does not seem to have been anything of the rebelliousness characterising the relations between missionaries and carriers in Akim in the 1860s, the Christian carriers were not completely meek and submissive - lobbying for extra pay during the stay in Abetifi etc, although in the end accepting a much lower gift from Munz than they had tried to get him to pay them as wages.
date: Date early: 17.03.1881
date: Proper date: 17.03.1881

Mohr's Report for the First Quarter 1881
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIV. - Begoro
description: Concerned exclusively with Fankyeneko and Anyinam, raising yet again the question of the style appropriate for catechist’s houses, and the problem of payment for them. He feels that after their schooling when they were housed in airy rooms, care should be taken over the kind of houses in which catechists are asked to live. Also it is of use to the missionaries to have a house where they can rest, and where they can talk privately to the catechist or to individual Christians. He describes the decline of the Fankyeneko community in some detail. One of the problems was that the house collapsed during a rain storm when partly built, which made the building so much more onerous. Then two of the adult men left on a trading expedition, one to Akwapim, the other to Fante. This left only 4 men capable of working on the house. The man who went to Akwapim came back (it seems within six months) but had to be excluded for having lived as a heathen while in Akwapim, and marrying a prostitute on his return. The man who went to Fante - Emil, the strongest and most intelligent of the Christians, whom Mohr had looked forward to having as an elder - had lapsed into dancing and playing during his journey, and although had has a wife with whom he seems happy in Fankyeneko, he lived with a heathen girl while he was away. He himself offered this information in the idea of escaping public exclusion from the community. Over Anyinam he is almost enthusiastic. The Christians have by themselves built a catechists house with a room for passing missionaries, and have moved themselves onto the mission land. There are 7 husband-wife units living, there – and although in only two cases are both husband and wife Christians, the other wives are showing signs of wanting to follow their husbands into baptism. Among the newly baptised are several slaves from the interior. Until now they had been afraid to break free of their master, an old blind prince. But last year one of them was ill-treated, and fle…
date: Date early: 28.05.1881
date: Proper date: 28.05.1881

Mohr to Basel - Report of a Journey from Begoro to the Hinterland of the Anum Station
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIV. - Begoro
description: The report begins with a five page introduction about preparations and travelling techniques. Leaving Begoro he remarks that there is a pond in the course of the river Osubeng near the town, which is accounted a fetish - women pray to it for children, and it is also the water in which the stools and fetishes are washed, and where the bereaved have to purify themselves. He comments on the Akura that they found by the way that they are light houses built of materials easy to find in the woods, and lived in by farmers or hunters or snail gathered for part of the year. The ‘traditional hospital' is often a grouping of such houses - people often live through long illnesses in the forest. This is partly because of the fear that in the town ill-wishing neighbours would be able to interrupt one's recovery, or inflict a further illness. They passed on the first day an Akura called Oboro-Ahohoo (he cudgeled the strangers), where they met 4 men from Gyakiti. These people knew that there was a white man in Anum who planned to travel through Gyakiti to Begoro, and that there was a white man from Akropong with him. (These were the missionaries Munz and Eisenschmid). Aboroahohoo was 5 hours from Begoro: as in all such places they were able to find an old pot for cooking, and a mortar for making fufu. Next day after two or three hours they came to Kokone Mountain, which Mohr says was once inhabited by the Krobos, until troubles with the Akems persuaded them to move to Krobo Mountain. Two hours later they passed the groups of huts oalled Bogyabeyedom and Mua-wo-ano and came to the Akura Fefeso, which consists of three large huts. The day before the Begoro women had left this place after 10 days’ collecting snails. The men had had to stay in Begoro on account of an investigation into a murder. Prom there after 1 ¾ hours they came to the lake Nanteta, which he describes as famous in Begoro as source of stories about gigantic snakes etc., and a great haunt of game and hunters. Unfortun…
date: Date early: July 1881
date: Proper date: July 1881

Mohr to Basel - The Main Report of the Ramseyer/Mohr Expedition to Kumasi
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIV. - Begoro
description: There is a printed version of this report in Heidenbote 1882 pp 26ff, which covers the actual visit to Kumasi. Additional material: In talking about the preparations for the journey, Mohr says that Ramseyer had received reports from various people about the route, which had in fact been closed to salt and munition by the English government for some time. In fact just before they were due to set out the news arrived of an agreement between the colonial government and Asante, and it was said that salt was again moving north into Kumasi and could be bought there in the market. They were delayed in setting out because the Abetifihene Kofi Denkyi feared that their visit would be taken as a political gesture of his - the missionaries made it clear that they were going on their own initiative and responsibility, but had recruit carriers from Mpraeso, since Abetifi people were forbidden from going with them. (Mohr explains in outline political situation. in Kwahu, and says that Obo had maintained a secret link with Agogo ‘the most notable town in Eastern Asante). 3 of Mohr’s Begoro carriers also refused to go further out of fright, and he had to recruit new ones. August 23rd from Obo Twenedurase through Zwasihu (where Mohr preached on John 6.37) and stayed the night at Akwaboa. August 24th a hard day’s journey to the first Asante Akim village, Sankore. They failed to get as far as Bompata, their actual objective for the day. A load of foodstuffs was sent from Sankore direct to Obogu for use on the return journey. Bompata they reached after 20 minutes the next .morning. August 25th – passing through Bompata where their preaching was attended by a large crowd, they visited Adomfe, and stayed the night in Kurofa. In the former they found a Fante rascal, one of the ‘bush magistrates’ who function on the order of the Protectorate, settling disputes and being paid for same. Of course he was very pious and warned the people to take the preaching to heart. But the missionaries warn…
date: Date early: 28.09.1881
date: Proper date: 28.09.1881

D. Huppenbauer's Annual Report on Schools in the Kibi District
subject: [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi
description: 5 ex-pupils of the school entered the Middle School at the beginning of the school year, while 5 more entered the teacher's seminary. Three of the latter have already come away - they say on account of the many blows they had received. Huppenbauer appears not to discount this altogether. In the first half of the year there were 35 pupils in the school, and in the second half 43. New pupils were only taken into class I if they came from West Akim and Obomosu. From other outstations they came with enough grounding to enter a higher class. They are economising by reducing the amounts paid out to provide food for each boy each month - the sum has already been reduced by 3d, if it were reduced by 5d they would save £10 p.a. The problem is that it is so difficult to get money out of parents or relatives for schooling. The situation is going to make for problems especially when the boys arrive in the Middle School. Most of the relatives are heathen, so where will they get money for payment? Two of the new pupils in the Middle School have had £1 of support from a Christian uncle, but then only after in one case Huppenbauer himself had contributed 15/-. In the other case the uncle asked that if he was going to pay for his nephew's schooling the mission should recognise nephew inheritance in this case. The outcome looks as if it will be matter of Akim schoolboys, attending the Teacher's Seminary, where no payment is required, but this is a serious matter as it would mean that no native Akim's became catechists. He regrets Anoba's leaving the school, and describes him in glowing terms as having loved the boys and gained their trust 'as no European could have done'. There is a subscript from J. Müller as District Inspector of schools in which he defends what had happened to the three Akims in the Teacher Seminar. They had written two letters between them. One from one Thomas Agyei, explained that he wanted to become a carpenter. The other jointly from John Wusu and Robert Nkoro…
date: Date early: 27.12.1881
date: Proper date: 27.12.1881