1579 20 77821 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 07.02.1865 Proper date: 07.02.1865 Description An account of the resource Kromer has had a wife on the station since early in the year - she was seriously ill at first, but otherwise they have been in good health with fevers, but not seriously. Concerning Catechist Asante Eisenschmid writes that ‘he has experienced the power of Christ in his heart' - while Burckhardt does not really seek God. Eisenschmid’s picture of their impact is gloomy - the response is if anything less – ‘deep thinking is not the concern of the local people, they are too much embedded in their beliefs about fetishes and consider that with a few eggs or a hen everything can be settled to their advantage'. The Okyenhene is further sunk in drunkenness, and holds himself more distant than he did before - indeed be has tried to interfere in a savage way, though these have been mitigated by the elders who were usually on the side of the mission, like to have them living in Kibi, and made up damages or appealed the missionaries to forget what had happened. Life in Kibi is constant lies and deceit and quarrels and brawls. The annual festival was held on Christmas Day, and passed off reasonably on that day, but the next day Kibi people quarrelled with the people of two other villages and they had many wounded to attend to in the evening. They have preached regularly in Kibi and the surrounding villages, visited Kukurantumi many times, Asinkwa a few times, and Begoro at least once. Outside Kibi the doors are open. A particularly heavy rainy season has made travelling very difficult for much of the year. The Kibi community stands at 39 - they have baptised 11 during the course of the year, about half from the school, 2 were children, of the rest 7 were from Akim, 1 from Accra, and one an Akropong servant-girl of Kromer's. Several people moved away from Kibi, especially those who had been involved in the building, including an elder called Abraham, an Accra carpenter. Though the Christians have not been perfect (avarice is mentioned especially as a problem), obviously Eisenschmid is fairly at peace with them. Most have a spiritual life, and their child-like contributions at the weekly prayer meeting please the missionaries. Kukurantumi is in a state of crisis - little further is said other than that the Chriatian youths of Kukurantumi want to come to Kibi There is a project for Kromer to move when Christaller comes to Kibi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.16.VII..16 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.16 - Ghana 1864: D-01.16.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for 1864 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 27.03.1866 Proper date: 27.03.1866 Description An account of the resource The report is printed as far as it refers to Kibi as an annex to the 1866 Annual Report (pp 54ff). The additional unpublished material concerns Kukurantumi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.18b.VII..3 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.18b - Ghana 1866: D-01.18b.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the First Quarter of 1866 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 27.03.1867 Proper date: 27.03.1867 Description An account of the resource Includes an introductory comment about the significance of the shortage of European workers which is distinctly other than classical calvinism. He writes that if there were a great hunger and thirst for righteousness in Akim, blessings would no doubt stream down - as it is he needs another missionary in the district to enable them to get nearer to the people. His report of the community mainly concerns the Dazu (Dagu?) case and about the patience and anxiety the case involved for the missionaries. He also briefly mentions one David Kese who has never caused them anxiety as an example of the possibility of this type of person being in the Christian community. One of their scholars had almost been forced to leave them recently by being put into pawn after his newly widowed mother had refused to marry his father's heir (his nephew), following which her family had had to pay back the 18 dollars they had received at her marriage and wanted to put the son into pawn to help cover the payment. An uncle on a farming village had helped to avoid this however, after the boy’ earnest pleas to be allowed to remain at the school. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19b.VIII..2 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.19b - Ghana 1867: D-01.19b.VIII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the First Quarter of 1867 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 17.04.1868 Proper date: 17.04.1868 Description An account of the resource The substantial parts are printed as an annex to the 1868 Annual Report pp111-112. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..4 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the First Quarter of 1868 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.01.1864 Proper date: 18.01.1864 Description An account of the resource In Kibi school numbers are relatively stable at 15, boys whom the King and elders ‘gave’ to the school. They attend fairly regularly and many of them would like to live on the station. Some seem to be really gaining something from baptismal instruction. In Kukurantumi the numbers vary between the six boys who are baptised and live with the catechist to about 17. The children said at one point in the year that no more children would go to the school unless a white man came to live in Kukurantumi (the missionaries agree that Catechist Burkhardt is not satisfactory and that he has not won the confidence of people for scholars). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.15.IV..22 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.15 - Ghana 1863: D-01.15.IV. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Schools of the District in 1863 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 14.07.1868 Proper date: 14.07.1868 Description An account of the resource The report is almost exclusively concerned with the Akim gold industry. Washing from the rivers is carried on by women and children who are happy if they earn 3d-4d per day. A particular type of earth is known as ore-bearing, and if a gold-digging comes across this type of earth it is hollowed out as far as possible. Eisenschmid gives the maximum depth of the gold diggings as 100'. The normal rate of earning may be-as much as 1 dollar a day from gold-diggings (i.e. this is the earning of a whole group, miners and women and children doing the washing). Small nuggets and gold-dust belong to the miner, but nuggets over 9 dollars value have to be divided – 1/3 to the Kibi chief and elders, 1/3 to the landowner, and 1/3 to the miner. Although people try to conceal the discovery of such nuggets this rarely happens partly because so many people are involved (including women); and partly because the Akim people lack the carefulness which marks the successful European deceiver - for the same reason it is usually possible to uncover cases of theft on the mission station. The impact of the gold-diggings is seen in the lack of industry (only smiths and carpenters, the latter making doors, windows and boxes from split wood) and in the comparatively slight amount of farming going on. Only in Kukurantumi, where there is no gold, are large farms made - in a dear year the Kukurantumi people send their provisions to Accra. In the gold-bearing areas of Akim the people only farm enough for their own needs. One problem following from the area’s gold-mining is that by a law of the Okyenhene no silver coins may be used in merchandise. This results in much loss of gold through the weighing out of small quantities, and also much strife, since there are no standard weights. The mission's policy has been to have their own weights at approximately the average of the local variations and then stick to them. This has sometimes meant not getting the indispensible article they were trying to purchase, but there is almost a proverb now in Kibi 'The white man only has min weight' - Eisenschmid explains this means only one weight for dispensing and receiving gold-dust. The king, of course, has a set of heavier weights for receiving fines. Eisenschmid links gold-digging with the worships of the Berem, not organically however - only in pointing out that the Berem is a gold-bearing river. However, he repeats the information about the processions of women to the Berem during Ata’s penultimate illness, with the point that they were led by his elder sister. Eisenschmid actually saw Ata after his death, and describes how he had a nugget of gold in his mouth, and others bound on his arms and legs, and head. He remarks on the terrible awakening he will suffer when he finds that no gold will save him. The apparatus of gold-weighing has religious significance judging by the way that Eisenschmid was unable to buy a 'fotu' and the scales, though he would have paid well for them. It was explained that a man's soul is in his fotu - and indeed at the yearly cleansing festival the fotu is also sprinkled with blood. He has, however, managed to collect a fotu etc. as if for his own use, and send it to the mission. There are scales, scoops, and vessels used to see if the gold is pure. The things of greatest interest, however, are the weights, Up to 4 ½ d. they are seeds from various plants, the finest brass weights come from Asante. Usually they are made by cutting and engraving a piece of wood into the required shape, making a clay mould around it, and then putting this into the fire, after which the burnt wood can be extracted. Into this mould the liquid brass is then poured. There do not seem to have been any geometrical weights. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..8 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Second Quarter 1868 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.06.1865 Proper date: 23.06.1865 Description An account of the resource Concerned mainly with a visit to Kukurantumi. Eisenschmid reports that people in Kukurantumi are disturbed by the land case, and that there were no inhabitants to be seen in the two villages between Kibi and Kukurantumi (Asafo and Akoko) on account of the case. But he does not specifically tie this information to the Asafo-Kukurantumi case mentioned in Chr.'s letter No. 9 above, People in Tafo are currently more receptive than those in Kukurantumi, especially when Andreas Ewyi takes part in the street preaching. (Eisenschmid is evidently quite impressed with him in street preaching and the taking of morning and evening prayers.). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.17.VII..18 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.17 - Ghana 1865: D-01.17.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Second Quarter of 1865 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 26.05.1866 Proper date: 26.05.1866 Description An account of the resource They have 5 servant-girls, who attend school in the mornings and learn needlework with Mrs Eisenschmid in the afternoons. The school in Kibi stands at 9 boarding boys, 6 boys who are servants of the missionaries, and 9 girls who are servants of the Eisenschmid and Asante families. Their attainments range from people only just learning the letters to those who can sit down and read the New Testament. Eisenschmid’s religious instruction involves the teaching of texts from the “Calwer Spruchbuch”. The most advanced learn English, on which they work very hard. Reporting on the community, he writes a page in praise of Mose Teko, the man who is married to a slave from Kukurantumi. He is 'quiet and modest’. The marriage has broken up following the birth of a child and Teko's refusal to offer the customary gifts to a fetish. The wife became ill with constant sores on her feet, and he was blamed for making the fetish angry. There is also a catechumen who has been a frequent attender at services and street preaching - he is a youngish man. There is another, rather older, who is regarded as a Christian. He is himself a house-slave, but has two slaves of his own. He has been deterred from becoming a Christian because of the need he feels he will have for these when he is old. Now he contemplates giving them back to his master and marrying to take care of the problem of old age. A third man, the brother of Noe Asante, reads his New Testament regularly, and is frequently buying books. But he is the king's drummer; and it is therefore difficult for him. They have good opportunities to preach to a wide range of people from all parts of Akim because there has been a case concerning the Okyenhene's brother Asase which has involved most Akim chiefs. He has also been preaching regularly in Pano and Tete, and clearly had not got to expect any reaction of substance when a man came to him and said that had heard Kromer also preaching on the Fall, accompanied Eisenschmid to the next village in order to hear further preaching, and accompanied him back again. Kukurantumi he describes as a town where the people are always looking for ways to earn themselves money - they have large farms and catch snails. There was an epidemic of guinea-worm which quite closed the school in the second quarter of the year, coinciding as it did with Kromer's taking about half the pupils (his servants) away to Akwapim when he was forced to travel there for his health. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.18b.VII..9 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.18b - Ghana 1866: D-01.18b.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Second Quarter of 1866 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 09.07.1867 Proper date: 09.07.1867 Description An account of the resource He was absent from Kibi from 16th May to 24th June. In this context he offers some information on the custom for the dead Okyenhene. Human sacrifice took place at night, so that comparatively few cases came to their knowledge. The old law that it was permitted to rob and plunder the property of strangers outside their houses was observed and the farms around Kibi now stand empty and a time of hunger is to be expected. At the time of Eisenschmid's arrival the bulk of the Akims had returned to their homes after the custom, but the chiefs remained since a successor to Ata had not yet been decided. They had united in selecting Asekira, Ata's elder sister, because while she had no sons her younger sister had only young sons – the eldest being only 14. Asekira had, however, asked for time to consider the offer, partly because she feared the curse which she believed had brought about her brother's death, and partly because of her concern about the envy of her sister. The decision would probably be made in the next few days – meantime the fetish priests were being brought in to inform the chiefs of the wishes of the gods. Eisenschmid tells the biography of Asase - on the king's death he and Ado fled to the mission station in fear of their lives. They remained for a time, though they had to be warned that if they did not live peacefully together (they had had one bloody fight between themselves in this time) they would be sent away from the station. He was fetched back by the elders but his fear was like an illness, and on 22nd June he committed suicide having that very morning run to Chr. Asante's house at dawn claiming the Kibi people were after him, though in fact all was silent. Eisenschmid comments that he was not without knowledge of the gospel, having resided in Accra and Cape Coast at a time when his mind was clear enough. But he simply refused to listen - as he had refused to listen to Widmann when he had visited Kibi the previous January and gone to him to urge him to conversion. Eisenschmid also reports the baptism of the 50-60 year old Boamma. His life history Eisenschmid has established only with difficulty. Born in Dukoman towards Akwamu and Egbe, Twi is his mother-tongue. In that country he was a free man, and had a wife and child. Then he fell ill, and went to a farming village to be healed; this was in the vicinity of Asante, or perhaps an Asante vassal state. While he was there war broke out in his home country, and the anti-Dukoman tribe called in Asante, and the outcome was that an Asante chief called Boateng came and defeated his people. At this he decided to give himself over to the Asantes, the more so as his doctor was a slave of Boateng's, and advised him to do this. He met Boateng travelling with two army units, and while he was made to march with the second, which was going slower, and was more suited to him since he was still ill, his wife was made to go with the first. He thus lost his wife for ever, then lived for several years in Asante in Boateng's district, until war broke out between Boateng and the Asantehene, and though Boateng was initially victorious he was later forced out of Asante and into Akim by the size of the Asante army. For several years Boateng lived in Kibi actually on the site where the station now is (they had found many traces of this earlier occupation, and Eisenschmid believed Riis had met Boateng in Kibi). Then they moved to Asamang, where soon after Boateng died, and Boamma had fled for his life to Kibi because of the killing of Boateng's slaves at the funeral custom. He came to Kibi and gave himself to the brother of Apiedu, currently an elder in Kibi. Since Boamma was known, Boateng's heir claimed and received damages for his flight - 24 dollars. After his new master's death Apiedwa inherited him. Under Apiedwa he worked and by industry or miserliness managed to earn enough to become a slave-owner himself. At the time of their first arrival in Kibi he had no interest in the missionaries, and first came into contact with them when in 1863 he was badly wounded in a street fight in Kibi. He was pronounced incurable by the native doctors, but Kromer and Eisenschmid managed to staunch the bleeding and dressed his wound several times each day, taking the opportunity to hold religious conversation with him at the same time. From then on he became more and more regular an attender at services, etc. and asked for baptism, though losing his two slaves was serious matter for him, especially as his wife threatened to live with him no longer after he had become a Christian. The situation was partly resolved by his master's taking his healthy slave away (Eisenschmid connects this with the master's anger at Boamma becoming a Christian against his wishes), while the other died. Eisenschmid had meantime let matters take their quiet course, not pressing the man personally, but preaching pointedly about the danger of not having decided, of loving slaves better than God etc. There is a postscript on Ata’s heir dd. 14 Jul - Kwasi Panying, the 14 year old son of Ata’s second sister is to be enstooled, and advised by his aunt and the elder Piedu. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19b.VIII..5 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.19b - Ghana 1867: D-01.19b.VIII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Second Quarter of 1867 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.09.1866 Proper date: 29.09.1866 Description An account of the resource Includes a sketchy description of his wife surrounded by the girls they have in the house sewing while she tells them stories perhaps from Europe, or they sing together. One important happening in the quarter was Ata’s serious illness - at one time Christaller and Eisenschmid had little hope he would survive. They were asked for medecine, and during his period of weakness sent him each day a bowl of nourishing soup. When he began to recover he called the fetish priests of Akim together to find out from what the illness had stemmed - their reply was that the ancestors were displeased with the harshness with which he had dealt with Asase (still at that time in the block). He was released, but forbidden to leave Kibi without king Ata's permission, Eisenschmid saw other customs being performed to assist in Ata's recovery - 100 women bringing water from the Berem to pour it out on the street, and a few days later a similar crowd of women took the rubbish from the streets and poured it into the Berem. Eisenschmid still had the entry to Ata, and once when he found a white hen impaled on a stick outside the palace he chided him for superstition which made the air foul, when he could have had the hen turned into a strengthening soup. Ata had said since his illness how much he valued the display of love in the bringing of soup etc., but Eisenschmid writes that he is sadly no nearer the Christian faith through his illness. The five recent baptisms (all schoolboys): Kodjo Amaku (Nathaniel) a son of a slave of a sister of Ata's. Eisenschmid describes a change from a wild boy (he was 14 at time of baptism) who ran away from school several times but was brought back every time by his mistress to someone who is no longer proud, has done them small pleasing things of his own volition, and is modest and friendly. The elder (Jacobo) described him as having had a dream following which he was heartened about becoming a Christian. Kwame Antwi, 12 years old from Kwabeng, entered the school at the beginning of 1864. A warm-hearted and obedient chap, of satisfactory conduct (Christian name Timotheo). (Daniel) Adu Kwabenai, c13 years old, son of a Kibi elder. Not very gifted, but has a good grasp of Christian truth and prays for himself. (David) Apenkese, c11 years old, from the house of a Kibi elder. (Wilhelm) Apanwia, 9-10 years old, a son of Ata. Very open and friendly. Eisenschmid clearly feels that these are a very hopeful bunch of boys. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.18b.VII..21 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.18b - Ghana 1866: D-01.18b.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Third Quarter 1866 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 16.09.1865 Proper date: 16.09.1865 Description An account of the resource Includes a comment on Abraham Atitsogbe that he had cleared debt of 50 dollars since Eisenschmid had come to Kibi (4 years), and had also bought for himself the tools he needed to carry on his trade. His house-boy, Wilhelm Dapa, aged 19, has just refused to accept a heathen girl offered him by his father for marriage. Eisenschmid is worried about this, however, on the score of the difficulty involved in finding Christian wives for Akim Christians - his wife has tried to tackle this problem by taking Akim girls as servants but the two so far employed have stayed away after a while. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.17.VII..24 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.17 - Ghana 1865: D-01.17.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Third Quarter of 1865 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 03.10.1868 Proper date: 03.10.1868 Description An account of the resource The report is mostly concerned with the Akim judicial system. In an introduction Eisenschmid justifies his saying that the Akim 'civilisation' is at a low level by citing two points - firstly that small misdeeds are visited by heavy and often cruel punishment, while the judges bend the law to suit their own needs. Eisenschmid instances these points by citing two cases. The first case arose from a blow struck - believed accidentally - against the Okyenhene. A fight had broken out between the king's people and those of the elder Kwasi Ammoako. The event was at night, and when the Okyenhene went to make peace he was hit by a follower of Ammoako’s called Doko. The latter then fled to the missionaries (he had already had substantial contact with them and Eisenschmid considered him not far from becoming a catechumen). The Okyenhene believed that Ammoako had abetted his flight. The case was heard the next day in the context of the Okyenhene’s drummers, drumming out the message that he had been as deeply insulted. Eisenschmid felt the elders should have hastened to arbitrate and keep the case to its real small dimension, but instead they had sent messengers in the night to Tette, Apapam and Apedwa to call the members of the court together to hear the case. The king appeared with a smeared face, and Kwasi Ammoako was called. The Okyenhene accused him of having hated him for a long time, and had only been waiting for an opportunity to get revenge. As a result he had not protected the king as was his duty, but had allowed Doko to strike him, and then let him get away instead of being put in the block. Ammoako pleaded that he was a loyal subject, that he had not known that Donko had struck the Okyenhene, and that Donko had fled without him knowing. The elders pronounced Ammoako guilty - at which the Okyenhene sprang up and danced while all the drums were beaten, guns fired etc. The fine was set after much bargaining at 22 dollars, after 64 dollars had been originally asked. Some time after Eisenschmid intervened, for he heard that Ammoako had been put in the block and the Okyenhene had sworn he would have Doko killed. .He found the elders grouped around Ammoako, and put it to them: 1. that they had not heard Doko 2. that they did not know whether the blow was accidental or intentional 3. that accuser, witness, and executor of punishment had all been the Okyenhene. Eisenschmid then told them they had given judgement as a child would, and that they ought to be ashamed of themselves. They took this with humour, and Ammoako was taken out of the block. Eisenschmid added that if any harm should come to Doko, he would have no alternative but to write to Accra (the Governor had just sent a stern warning following the human sacrifices after Ata's death). Eisenschmid then interviewed the king, who claimed Doko as his witness, and warned him that had Doko hit him intentionally, he (Eisenschmid) would have urged a proper punishment, since Doko's duty was honouring the king (Eisenschmid had in fact heard that the blow was simply a result of an upward movement of the head or arm when Doko was not aware anyone was in the way at all). Over the next two days the matter was brought to a settlement - grey-headed elders had to argue for hours with the king against depriving Ammoako of his stool and robes of office in the end the king agreed to dash him the whole affair, and this involved a return gift of 90 dollars before things were fully settled. The second case concerned the theft of £8o gold dust en route from Christiansborg to Kibi. 2 messengers had been sent to carry loads, and the one carrying the gold dust had disappeared. Eisenschmid was told that he was last seen at Apedua where he had rested because of a wound on his foot. When he was two days overdue Eisenschmid set in motion the various means open to him to get the money recovered. The Okyenhene in contrast to his apathetic elders swore an oath that he would find the money, and set out immediately the complaint was made to him about it to Apedua, and Eisenschmid outlines the commotion this caused, with people being called in from the other towns to provide him with an approptiate escort. No trace of man or money was found in Apedua however and Eisenschmid began to hear hints that the carrier involved had indeed reached Kibi without delaying in Apedua at all. Eisenschmid felt that this meant that his master was involved - the carrier was a slave of Apiedu, the head elder of Kibi about 100 years old, the head of the Okyenhene’s family. Apiedu was quite uncooperative, however. Eisenschmid then receilved two hints that the slave' might be found at night sleeping in Apiedu's farming hamlet 1/2 hour's march from Kibi (Eisenschmid names as sources of the hints 2 schoolboys, and Wilhelm Dazu who was in fact a nephew of Apiedu). A party including Eisenschmid and Chr. Asante went to the place, gained admission (Eisenschmid writes that 'Agoo' was particularly.used of a friendly visit at night) found the man, and Eisenschmid had to check his followers from giving him a hard time. (They said to the carrier that he had been taking the bread out of their mouths). The journey back to the Okyenhene's house became a triumphal procession - all the Christians from the station joined it and they marched into Kibi singing hymns. The carrier was given over to the Okyenhene, along with a sermon from Asante about the evidence which the event offered for the power of God. Judgement was put off for 48 hours, and in the end Apiedu was found guilty the box was produced with only 1/2 dollar lacking from the money. (NB this case is also referred to in outline in the Annual Report for 1868). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..10 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Third Quarter of 1868 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.01.1864 Proper date: 18.01.1864 Description An account of the resource The station is called the white-man's village by the Kibi people. During 1863 catechist Joseph Ofei had to be excluded for immorality. They have had little time for preaching journeys beyond the immediate surroundings of Kibi but have preached regularly in Kibi especially when the people have assembled from distant places. He feels the people must sooner or later respond to the proclamation of the non-existence-of fetishes and the deceitfulness of the priests. In 1863 a fetish priest in Kibi was either killed or else committed suicide after poisoning 7 people. And another advised a wealthy man that he was ill because someone envied his fine farm - if he were to have the best fruits from the farms strewn at the entrance of the village they would know who the envious one was because it would be he who stole them. The fetish priest was himself caught stealing the fruits. Reporting on the community - Jakobo goes on his quiet way but the elder Abraham is concerned only with material things, though it is true that he has given up drinking since he became a Christian. The two ex-Gyadam pupils had to be excluded from the Catechists' Seminary because of immorality, and Georg Pabi of Kukurantumi left the Seminary because he found the discipline too hard. However, the first Kibi man has been baptised and 6 youths baptised in Kukurantumi at the beginning of the year are a shining example. There are 10 Kibi catechumens over whom Eisenschmid expresses anxiety. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.15.IV..21 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.15 - Ghana 1863: D-01.15.IV. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Year 1863 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 08.01.1867 Proper date: 08.01.1867 Description An account of the resource In the course of the year Jonas Ako had come to Kibi as a teacher. The number of members of the community was 8 (25 in the previous year) with 13 communicants and 6 catechumens. There are 19 boys in the school (only 2 heathen) and 5 girls (all heathen). At Kukurantumi the catechist was in early 1867 Phillip Kwabi. The number of members of the community had risen from 12 to 15, with 7 communicants and 2 catechumens. There were 3 boys and 3 girls in the school. The school coffee plantation as large as it can be kept clean now, yielded its first fruit, and encouraged other Christians and heathen to lay out small plantations for themselves. After his wife's death Christaller left for Akropong, and the Kromers left for Europe in the new year 1867. Although not much travelling had been done, one or another of the missionaries had visited at least once in the following towns and villages - Asafo, Aaiakwa, Sadyumase, Tete, Apedwa, Dadantam, Apapam, Pano. Tete and Pano had been visited 6 times each. Catechist Asante from Kibi has been travelling regularly through the villages around Kibi. 3 of their local staff, Asante, Kwabi and Ako were especially satisfactory, Eisenschmid’s writing in very warm terms about Asante's assistance. Ewyi had been dismissed, but was showing real signs of penitence, and attending services more often than before if anything. Palmer had also caused difficulties, and was currently under investigation. The movements of numbers in the communities - in Kibi there were 6 baptisms, one of a child of Asante's, the other 5 school boys (Dan. Adukwabena, Nathaniel Amakya, Timotheo Antwi, David Apeakese, Wilhelm Apeawia), though these numbers were balanced by the losses caused by the removal of Jon. Palmer and Christaller. Three people moved onto the station, besides Ako, Alexander Dato from Akropong and Immanuel Adern from Kukurantumi. In Kukurantumi, besides Andreas Ewyi, Jonas Pabi was excluded; this loss was balanced by the coming of Kwabi and the baptism of 3 children. One of the latter was a child, who his mother having died bearing him, the heathen regarded as a cursed child and would have killed him had it not been for Kromer's adopting him. Picturing the life of the community Eisenschmid reports regular attendance at Sunday and daily services, and an excellent relationship with the missionary (presumably himself) especially among the younger members. The latter often gather at his house in the evenings in order to sing, hear him tell stories, play games, pray. He cannot see much zeal for mission work among the people themselves, however. In Kibi they have had to take no serious action against misconduct, but in Kukurantumi, besides the two excluded, two other men had to be excluded from Holy Communion for a short while for marrying heathen wives, against the order of the community (Mose Badu and Samuel Otemeng). Another (Josua Abisaw) was found guilty of theft. 2 Christians were bought free from slavery after the money to do so had been lent by the missionaries – Paul Teaseye from Kukurantumi and Jonathan Asumang from Kibi. They have a harmonium in the chapel in Kibi (given by a Dr Hauschildt), and have been preaching mostly on Sundays from the second year's syllabus in the Sunday gospel. There is pressure to be taken on as house-servants with time to go to school by both boys and girls in Kibi. The 7 new boys in the School are listed by Eisenschmid: Yaw Koi from Boadua came quite off his own bat asking for admittance into the Boarding School. 13-15 years old, already attending baptismal instruction. Abosompem, the son of an elderly catechumen who after much delay - during which the missionaries warned him against idleness - was eventually allowed by his uncle to attend school. Immanuel Adern, already having done several year's schooling in Kukurantumi. Stephan Saki ex-servant of Christallers (his fellow ex-Christaller servant became a carpenter's apprentice with Eisenschmid). Alexander Doto, an Akim boy who came back after schooling and baptism in Akropong. A young man from Asiakwa who came asking to be baptised and allowed into the school and persisted with the latter. Konamoa from Apapem (Eisenschmid is clearly rather impressed with the character of the latter). In Kukurantumi all the scholars were house servants of Kromer. Christmas was a major celebration, with the Okyenhene visiting them, and many other heathen. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.18b.VII..25 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.18b - Ghana 1866: D-01.18b.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Year 1866 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 07.01.1868 Proper date: 07.01.1868 Description An account of the resource The mission staff includes now Brother Lodholz, and teacher Jonas Ako. The community in Kibi has incrased from 23 to 35, but the number of communicants only from 13 to 15. There are no catechumens. In the school are 19 boarders, 4 day boys and 4 girls. The community in Kukurantumi now has teacher Sam. Gibson on its staff in addition to Kwabi. The number of members of the community has dropped from 15 to 12, with 4 communicants, but 11 catechumens. There are 7 boys in the school. In Kibi they took a harvest of 180-190 pounds from the coffee plantation, which should show a profit of some pounds sterling when the costs of employing labour at about the time of harvest are offset against earnings. The work of the station was crippled by illness during the course of the year - Eisenschmid's wife died in May, after which he spent some weeks in Akwapim. Some weeks later again Eisenschmid was dangerously ill - Asante sent for a European brother to come to Kibi because at times he was speaking only German. This involved another long stay in Akwapim before he was better, and though Lodholz arrived in the latter part of the year his main activity was learning to speak Twi. Nevertheless Asante had made many preaching journeys in Akim, and Kwabi worked in Tafo and Osiem as well as Kukurantumi. Asante gets another glowing report from Eisenschmid, and Kwabi is praised as someone who works hard to bring people into the Mission, and who is tireless at revealing situations which need to be brought out to be punished by the light. Teacher Ako is described as someone who does little to extend his meagre knowledge – he is a Larte man, and during the year married Adelheid Dako from Abiriu, an ex-pupil of the Girls Boarding School Aburi. Sam. Gibson is also marrying an ex-pupil of the Aburi school Lydia Gyamebi of Late. The baptisms in the Kibi community were of an old man, now Abraham Boamma, and 6 schoolboys, Selomo Ata, Joseph Samson Koi, Mose Foa, Josua Adai, Jonas Aware, Thomas Anokwa, and one child of Wilhelm Daku. Stephano Soa and David Kese went to the Akropong Middle School. In Kukurantumi there were no baptisms, one exclusion for theft, Kramer's ex-cook left for employment in Akropong, and a baptised six-fingered child was taken by Mrs. Zimmermann. Although Eisenschmid writes that the Kibi community are like children who cannot yet be fed on strong meat, he is clearly very pleased with them, citing as evidence of the reality of their stand their reactions to Eisenschmid's trials - including their own midnight prayer meetings. They have also stood firm during the absence of their missionary, and welcomed him back after his absences. The most serious problem in Kukurantumi was Kwabi's finding that all the christians had been guilty of petty pilfering at the time of Kromer’s leaving. Overall there is only one Christian marriage apart from those of the teachers and catechists. This is Wilhelm Dagu’s marriage to a maidservant of Mrs Eisenschmid - a marriage which it seems the missionaries insisted on when she was found with child by him. The ethical situation in the congregation in Kibi is satisfactory however - Eisenschmid writes that the great difference between Christian and heathen is that the former try to gain their daily bread by honourable means. The school increased by 7 boarding-boys at the end of the year under the influence of the new Okyenhene and the elders (Ata died in the middle of the year). The new king once attended the Kibi school, and has some knowledge of biblical history - the story of Joseph has especially impressed him. One Christian is learning carpentry, another is learning to split shingles. The preaching concerns mainly the crucified Christ, though there is also much stress on the nothingness of the fetishes, especially on the part of the catechists. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19b.VIII..8 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.19b - Ghana 1867: D-01.19b.VIII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Year 1867 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 12.01.1869 Proper date: 12.01.1869 Description An account of the resource Statistics for the year: The mission land at Kibi is given as 20 acres. The numbers in the Kibi community had increased from 35 to 42, there were now 20 communicants and 2 catechumens. 20 pupils in the boarding school, plus 2 day-boys. 9 girls are educated by Mrs Eisenschmid. The size of the missions land in Kukurantumi is given as 18 acres. The numbers in the community had increased from 16 to 20, with 8 communicants and 3 catechumens. 4 boys and 2 girls attend the school. In the description of the mission property it appears that apart from the coffee plantation there is hardly any extensive farming on the mission land. Personnel - Eisenschmid married Johanna, the widow of the Bremen missionary Ruckaber on March 17th, and the Kromers arrived back in Kibi at the beginning of November. Both Lodholz and Eisenschmid suffered severe fevers, the latter had such a bad attack that he has applied for leave to return to Europe. Lodholz gave his first Twi sermon in October. Preaching etc. is recorded as having taken place in Kukurantumi (visited 6 times in the year by missionaries), Tette, Apapam, Akoko, Apedua, Asiakwa, Osiem, Fankyeneko, Osine. One journey was projected to Begoro by Kromer, but he was hindered by a fever. Both Kwabi and Asante get good reports for their work - Asante especially. They are both described in this reports as Akropong people. The two teachers are both from Lateh. The communities - in Kukurantumi an older man has been baptised, and 6 girls in Kibi - the first Akim women to be baptised. Despite disappointments over individuals at particular times the relations between members of the community and the missionaries is good, banishing unsatisfactory events from the memory. Eisenschmid cites especially the Christians' reaction to a theft on the station - a united response, in which Wilhelm Dazu played a leading and creditable role, leading the missionaries to the village of the thief, although he was the head of Dazu's family - as evidence of these satisfactory relations. The only 'fall' in Kibi during the year was an occasion when one member of the community attended a heathen festival. The bulk of the Kibi community are in some way economically dependent on the mission. One younger man has in the course of the year become somewhat independent of the mission by beginning to act independently as a carpenter, after tuition from Eisenschmid. The elder members at Kukurantumi are more economically independent, but most of them are either excluded from Communion, or excluded entirely from the community through irregular sexual relations or adotping aspects of the heathen way of life. The Basel Committee had directed them after reading the 1867 Annual Report to hold a catechising session on a Sunday for the community they tried as a result to have their normal street preaching on a Tuesday. The change of time was unpopular with the heathen, however, and now both the catechising and the street preaching is held on a Sunday. An attempt was made to run a Sunday School - the project was found to have no appeal to the people in Kibi town, but it is a good idea to have the older members of the community literate. Another list of towns visited by preaching during the year is given at the end of the report, in which details is given of the activities in this respect of the catechists and teachers. These did not travel extraordinarily Kwabi did 35 days, but did visit some places which are not listed in the account of the missionaries' travelling at the head of the report: Adadentem, Begoro and the towns on the route to Begoro, Mase, Enyinasing. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..14 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report for the Year 1868 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 03.10.1878 Proper date: 03.10.1878 Description An account of the resource Is concerned with his performance in Bible knowledge and reading (good), etc. He is described by Eisenschmid as better than any of the evangelists already employed. Eisenschmid and Dieterle repeat the point made elsewhere that his knowledge is the result of self-study. Eisenschmid also writes that neediness in sin and grace in Christi are things he knows by experience as well as by teaching. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..214 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report on the Examining of Imm. Boakye Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 14.11.1887 Proper date: 14.11.1887 Description An account of the resource There is a long report on this event in Heidenbote 1888, pp 17-20, in which the Eisenschmid letter plays a prominent part. In the unpublished section of the report Eisenschmid says that groups of Christians were waiting on the Kukurantumi-Kibi road at Asafo and Akoko. At the end if his report of his proceedings on 3rd November, Eisenschmid cites one of the arguments with which he had endeavoured to persuade the Christians to leave Kibi as being (following the exact point at which Ampofowa had broken off negotiations) that the English now had to act out of honour, this giving assurance of action. There is a copy of the Proclamation made at Kibi at No 97. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..96 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report on the return of the Akim Christians for their Homes Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 27.12.1864 Proper date: 27.12.1864 Description An account of the resource Kukurantumi school had to be closed when Burckhardt was brought to Kibi to be given special supervision. He had been trying to teach with heavy punishments what he hardly knew himself, being little gifted, and having lost much of the knowledge with which he had left the Seminary. This has had a favourable result for the Kibi school which was increased by 6 pupils to 20. The Kibi school marches out now in shirt and trousers made by Frau Kromer. He continues to give the Kibi school a good report, in this subject they are in no way behind an elementary school in Europe. They have troubles with arithmetic however, with the pupils attending regularly and having a real desire to learn, and Chr. Asante getting an excellent report as a man who loves his pupils, works to increase his knowledge and has an inner consistency about him. Biblical knowledge is taken up with great enthusiasm by the boys; and singing - often when heathen singing is to be heard in Kibi at night, the boys can be heard singing the hymns they know. 500 coffee trees have been put into the plantation. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.16.VII..17 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.16 - Ghana 1864: D-01.16.VII. - Akim Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report on the Schools in 1864 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 15.01.1874 Proper date: 15.01.1874 Description An account of the resource In the station statistics it appears that Eisenschmid has returned to Kibi in mid-1873 to replace Lodholz, troubled by persistent severe illness. Haas is already a widow. Eisenschmid too suffered an extremely severe attack of illness in November - at the time of writing the report there was no missionary at Kibi. The catechists on the station are William Adow and William Obeng - both unmarried. Teacher Ako is still on the staff. The number of members of the community has remained stable in the course of the year at 45. 24 of these are communicants, 7 non-communicants, there are 14 children. 8 people are catechumens, and there are 23 boys in the boarding school. Despite the stationary numbers, 7 people were baptised, 3 died, and 7 moved away - only 3 Christians moved to Kibi to make up this loss. Services in the Kibi church are attended by heathens and excluded Christians. Two Christian young men are betrothed to two of the girls working as servants for the missionaries. The opposition to the school is not so serious – some pupils have been voluntarily sent by their families. 2 of the Christians are capable carpenters. Some of the others are involved in trade to a certain extent. The missionaries travelled 22 days in the year (on preaching tours), the catechists 73. People were visited in their houses in Kibi proper - this brought many people to the services. On the whole the elders and the Okyenhene had a very pleasant attitude to the missionaries during the year. Two of the catechumen are young men, and have been threatened by their fellows, but after Eisenschmid had spoken to the two head men they were given peace. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.25.IX..18 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.25 - Ghana 1873: D-01.25.IX. - Kjebi and Kukurantumi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report on the Station in 1873