313 20 77825 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: 15.12.1867 Proper date: 15.12.1867 Description An account of the resource Includes a description of a journey to Anum in May of 1867. As a matter of course the journey involved it using the Keta-Ho route. Between Ho and Anum he spent the night in the village of Atwaome (?). Here he was the guest of a Christian from Accra who had his residence there. The village was at the foot of the first Peki mountain – Adidom (?) He took quinine against an attack of fever which overcame him at this place. Was almost unconscious on his arrival in Pekyi, and left under a shade-tree in the hammock, while his carriers went to buy food. Found himself surrounded by a semicircle of weeping people, who every time he moved set up a great shout. On the way from the Anum station into the town one passes quickly growing orange and mango trees, and a fine vegetable garden, and a maize farm belonging to the indigenous people on the station. At the first crossing of paths in the town you can see that it is a heathen settlement. By the path there is a calabash with water and yams and often too a young goat or a cat is tied up as offering to the fetish. A subscript from Schrenk reports that Binder went to Anum partly as a mission trader to see what conditions were like. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19a.II..50 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-01.19a - Ghana 1867: D-01.19a.II. - Christiansborg Title A name given to the resource Binder to Basel (from Akropong) 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: 04.12.1867 Proper date: 04.12.1867 Description An account of the resource For the German translation see No 23 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19a.I..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-01.19a - Ghana 1867: D-01.19a.I. - General Conference Committee (including Slave Emancipation Commission) Title A name given to the resource Treaty concluded with Akwamu by T.B. Freeman 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: 04.12.1867 Proper date: 04.12.1867 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19a.I..23 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-01.19a - Ghana 1867: D-01.19a.I. - General Conference Committee (including Slave Emancipation Commission) Title A name given to the resource Treaty concluded with Akwamu by T.B. Freeman (see No 24, German Translation) 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19b.X. 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 Title A name given to the resource Ada 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: 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: 01.10.1867 Proper date: 01.10.1867 Description An account of the resource He describes his first impressions of Kibi. He comments that so far as he could judge the Christians in Kibi have a more childlike attitude to the missionaries than those on the other stations he visited en route for Kibi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19b.VIII..7 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 Lodholz to Basel 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20a.II. 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-01.20a - Ghana 1868 Title A name given to the resource Christiansborg 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20a.III. 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-01.20a - Ghana 1868 Title A name given to the resource Abokobi 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20a.IV. 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-01.20a - Ghana 1868 Title A name given to the resource Aburi 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.V. 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 Title A name given to the resource Akropong 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: 14.01.1868 Date late: 03.02.1868 Proper date: 14.01.1868-03.02.1868 Description An account of the resource Two minutes deal with financial questions. They include a subscript by J. Müller to No. 1 that in the last five years the cost of hammock-carriers on the coast had doubled. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..1-2 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-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Station's Conference Minutes 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: 31.03.1868 Proper date: 31.03.1868 Description An account of the resource The new Christian Abraham Boamma had been on a journey to a friend of his with whom he discussed his new religion - the friend said the ‘word’ was 'sweet' and sent the missionaries a gift of yams and a hen, though Lodholz explains that it is difficult for such a man to do anything more, since, he is head of the family, and must hold a family meeting before he can take serious steps towards entering the church. Also one of the schoolboys had been treated with local medicine during a serious attack of fever by a woman who after his recovery seems to have wanted to prevent the boy from returning to the mission compound until the cure had been paid for. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..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-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Lodholz' 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: 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: 22.04.1868 Proper date: 22.04.1868 Description An account of the resource Raises the question of policies in relation to the organisation of the mission in Akim- whether there should be two stations, and if so whether Asiakwa or Kukurantumi should be the second. There is a long clear setting out of the factors by Schrenk which includes an estimate for the Asiakwa population of 1500-2000, and a very pessimistic analysis of the Kukurantumi community. Eisenschmid also applies for the promotion of Chr. Asante to Catechist Grade I., and this receives universal support. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..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-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid to Basel 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: 30.06.1868 Proper date: 30.06.1868 Description An account of the resource Reports two preaching journeys he had made in Akim. He writes: - That in Asafo the people were not willing to listen quietly to his preaching; - That in Asafo there was a small fetish shrine in the form of a house big enough to allow the chief to enter it; - That a farming village half an hour before Asiakwa the people were again not prepared to listen quietly to preaching. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..7 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 Lodholz' Report for the Second 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: 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: 30.09.1868 Proper date: 30.09.1868 Description An account of the resource Includes the report that And. Ewyi has been received back into the community having given Lodholz the impression at an interview that he was a broken man - such as Lodholz had seen very rarely in Africa. Lodholz was also pleased to see the evidence of a heart full of joy on his face after he had received communion again. Two wives, Ewyi's and Rose Yaw Badu's, are attending services regularly and especially the latter is only deterred by the problem of overcoming family opposition – she is the only daughter of her mother, and her brother having been involved in the community, is now an open enemy. Loholz tried to encourage them by telling them about the trials faced by new converts in India, far worse in his opinion than those suffered on the Gold Coast. The Kukurantumi chief is pressing to have a European back in his town. His moves to this end include driving the Christians to build their houses on the mission station, and telling Lodholz that he wants his whole town to become Christian. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VI..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-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Lodholz' 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: 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