325 20 77964 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: 03.01.1876 Proper date: 03.01.1876 Description An account of the resource A letter informing the committee of their hesitations about going forward to Kwahu, because of the war. Much of the informations are in Mohr’s letter number 255 of 1875. Additional points: The Juabenhene had visited Ramseyer on the mission station in Kibi several times – they were already acquainted from the period of Ramseyer’s captivity. The story circulating about the course of the war is that the Asantes were only victorious on the fourth day through the Juaben's running out of powder. According to the Asantes themselves they suffered heavy losses, and Adu Bofo was on the point of blowing himself up with his own last 6 barrels of powder when news came that the Juabens were quite without further ammunition. Many menbers of the Juaben royal family have been captured, including the heir to the throne - a boy of 9. They have been assigned the stretch of land between Atrawante and Kukurantumi for settlement. A rumour has now reached that Gouldsberry is safe in Cape Coast after all, and had been well-handled in Kumasi. A slave of a sister of the Juabenhene’s having just escaped and arrived in Kibi reports that the streets of Kumasi are covered with grass and that many of the houses are fallen in - there are few people living there. The main problem, however, concerns the advisability of going forward into Kwahu. There have been rumours which have turned out to be untrue that there had been fighting between the Kwahus and the Asantes. There is another rumour that the Kwahus have seized Agogo or plan this. A messenger was sent to the King in Abetifi recently asking him if the missionaries should come, and his reply was that they should, and not be frightened of the Asantes. The missionaries feel, however, that there is a danger that if the Kwahus are not put under some formal kind of protection by the Colonial Government they may decide to accept Asante subjection once more. There are evidently divisions in Kwahu over this question. The recent Asante embassy was merely sent back by the Obos, but imprisoned and sent down to the coast by the chief in Abetifi acting on the advice of the Akwapims. The Kwahu wish for protection has existed for some time – there are rumours that at the time of the recent campaign they sent some money to the Akims (Kibi) in return for which the Akims were to sponser their case with the colonial government (there is now some anxiety in Kibi that they might want the money back). If Kwahu became once more subject to Asante (and no doubt all the chiefs of Kwahu know that their heads depend on their making the right decision over this problem) then the Asantehene is as likely to let the missionaries work in Abetifi as in Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..238 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer, Werner, Weimer to Basel from Kibi 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: 17.01.1876 Proper date: 17.01.1876 Description An account of the resource Over the previous two weeks information from all parts of Asante shows that all is now quiet. Furthermore from Dr Gouldsberry it is learnt that Asante has no intention to attack Kwahu – indeed the Juaben war was the fault of the Juabens, who not only turned back Bonnat and Prince Ansah, but also imprisoned some of their Asante escort (Perhaps, Ramseyer adds, this is why the Juabenhene who had intended to journey to Cape Coast to see the Governor in January now seems frightened to do so). The Kwahus too seem to have decided against attacking Agogo (the cause of this was Agogo’s treachery against the Juabens). Therefore they plan to travel to Kwahu within the next week, and Ramseyer will write a letter to the Asantehene explaining what they are doing in terms of his great love for Asante and the need for a link station between the coast and Kumasi, to try to maintain reasonable relations with Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..239 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer 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: 08.02.1876 Proper date: 08.02.1876 Description An account of the resource Reporting their arrival in Abetifi. He finds there faces he recognises from their stay as prisoners, and everyone knows who is he and are surprised to see him back again. The hut where he lived for two days as a prisoner is now in ruins. Politically the situation seems to be that although the chiefs of Obo and Obomeng had wanted to restore links with Asante they had been persuaded to drop the idea by the other chiefs. Ramseyer thinks they will have to restore links with Asante sooner or later but doesn’t think this will affect the situation much. Nevertheless he admits that the Kwahus are showing great respect for the colonial government, in the last week they had cleaned the whole road from Kwahu to Akim, partly in the fear that if they did not do this they would be punished by the colonial government (Buhl after reading the letter in Christiansborg adds a note that because of this David Asante was able to travel from Abetifi to Akim in 3 ½ days). On their way into Kwahu they had passed through Obo because they felt that the choice of sites for a mission station lay between that town and Abetifi. Obo they decided against because the obvious hill for a mission station was too far from the town and too far from water. In any case Abetifi is the residence of the Kwahu chief, and only three hours from Obo. On the 5th February the mission became owners of land on a long hill to the north of the town, about 7 minutes away from it. From it you can see almost the whole of the Abetifi town. There are plenty of stones for building. They plan to build a living house on the station first because it will not be possible to build swish once the rain starts, while the stone walls for the chapel will be possible. They are starting off in any case with temporary houses, because their rented rooms in the town cost 4 dollars per month, and they are “open” – in the whole of Abetifi are no rooms with doors and shutters. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..241 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer 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: 22.02.1876 Proper date: 22.02.1876 Description An account of the resource First night at Osino, second at Anyinam, third in a bivouac, mid-afternoon on the next day at Mpraeso. Very friendly reception at Mpraeso – they had a choice of accommodation. 600 people including the chief and his elders listened to Asante’s preaching the next morning, and he had the impression that people in Mpraeso were very pleased with the news that the mission was starting a Kwahu station. The hill surveyed in Obo was to the North-West of the town, 10 minutes away. To Weimer it was the water question which was decisive in deciding against it. They were not able to see the chief in Obo – he was involved in a fetish ceremony. From Obo to Abetifi they passed through a sizeable village -Aduammoa. In Abetifi they first found themselves lodgings, then got permission from the chief to choose land for themselves although they did not meet the chief because he was celebrating a fetish festival – he returned two days later. The purchase process lasted about a week, with the local idea first that the land sould be given to the mission – though this turned out to be really a form of rent with an unfixed present due to the chief every few months. They were not familiar with the idea of land purchase and two days were spent in consultations between the Abetifi chief and the other Kwahu Chiefs over what was to be done. Eventually the purchase was agreed on at 110 dollars, and on their side the letter of purchase was signed by the chief, 2 linguists and an elder (The land is described as a triangle, 3000 paces along each side). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..242 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Weimer 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: 13.04.1876 Proper date: 13.04.1876 Description An account of the resource The letter is printed in HEIDENBOTE, 1876, p 50-51. It is concerned mainly with building reports. They had to survive a month-long strike of the labour force. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..247 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 08.01.1877 Proper date: 08.01.1877 Description An account of the resource Printed apparently in full as an appendix to the Missions Annual report 1876 p. 92ff. Consists of a description of the station and the buildings thereon: an enumeration of the community not in any great detail, and a final paragraph about food shortages and fetish prohibitions and the trade in foodstuffs. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..237 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's Annual Report for the Station Begoro 1876 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: 27.05.1876 Proper date: 27.05.1876 Description An account of the resource The protocoll contents offers and accounts of expenditures to date. The conference also recommends the application by Catechist Obeng for £1 on account of his recently born son, which the missionaries sponsor on account of the high cost of living in Begoro, and ask on their own behalf for a medical kit, the beginning of a Station Library, and a station's seal. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..232a 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Protocoll of a Begoro Station's Conference 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: 29.06.1876 Proper date: 29.06.1876 Description An account of the resource Apparently printed in full as an appendix to the Mission's annual report for 1876 (pp 113ff). Further news of the building operation and the collection of snails, outline news of the first baptisms and a short note on pawning etc in this part of Akim. A school has been opened. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..232b 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's Second Quarterly Report for 1876 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: 07.09.1876 Proper date: 07.09.1876 Description An account of the resource Printed apart from short comments on the missionaries’ health at beginning and end - in Heidenbote 1876 pp94-5. He gives a full list of the Christian names of the people baptised on Ascension Day 1876 with their occupations and one or two sentences about how these were selected from the much larger body of baptismal candidates. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..233 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Glatzle 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: 05.10.1876 Proper date: 05.10.1876 Description An account of the resource They are using an asphalted sheet as a temporary roof for the chapel. Over labour and labour troubles; all their Larteh people have left them at the end of August – their most skilled, most hard-working, and most reliable men. Only one skilled mason remains. They have to pay him 2/-per day, most of it has gone on rum. The Begoro people are very angry with him. It was hunger which drove the Larteh people home, so there is some hope that they will return, though there is some danger also that they will find work with the government. Shortage of foodstuffs is widely felt however, not only in terms of meat supplies but also plantains. Palmwine is the only thing in good supply. The trouble seems to be that during the Asante war they did not make any more farms in Begoro. In August they had a strike of their unskilled labour force. At the beginning they had paid the boys a half-dollar each week. But quite soon the supply of labour outstripped the demand in this particular field, and although each Monday they took on 30-40 boys they had to send many away without work. They were thus able to reduce the wages, taking people who were willing to accept 1/3d per day. On Monday 21 August no boys came to work, and they soon heard that the youth of Begoro had sworn an oath or made a law that no further work should be done unless the old payment of 2/3d per week was revivied. Anybody working for the missionaries would be fined 2/3d. The missionaries carried on for two weeks without these people (they seem to have worked especially with the masons). Then they tried to get individuals who wanted to work, to come to work, but they were punished. Mohr got the chief to call them to him and tell them to go back to work, but they said they would not. Mohr then took steps to make a formal charge against them (he explains to the reader that to do this one gave accusation money to the chief, and they were reimbursed by a like sum being fined from the defendant if he were found guilty; it is not clear exactly what the charge was). The accusation money in this case was one dollar and the four ring-leaders were called to answer the charge. The palaver was a long one and Mohr stated in it that he was concerned to see the 4 ringleaders punished because they had prevented people who wanted to work for 3d a day working, and had punished some who had worked. He wanted to see their law against working for less than 6d per day repealed. He also pointed out that it was a pity for Begoro itself that all work had stopped on the station - it turns out from a parenthetical comment that Mohr had forbidden any Begoro man from working on the station unless he brought a boy with him. This failed however, because the older ones were the plaything of the young ones. He went on to ask the king as his friend if it were not true that by his own free will he had come from Europe because the Begoro people wanted a mission station - and whether he had not done good for the town, teaching people to do work they had never done before, and paying them for their work? He could also point to people standing around the palaver place by name, and asking them how much they had earned each day explained to the king that some people were skilled, some people were unskilled but hard-working and reliable, and some were unskilled and lazy. He made his point, and the boys came back to work to scales of 3d daily for boys, 6d daily for men, 9d daily for people on particularly demanding work like stone breaking, and digging up Odum stumps. Lawyers and Masons from other towns are paid 1/- and 2/- Discussing the building of the Christian community Mohr says that in view of Glatzle's illnesses in this third quarter all the baptismal instruction has been undertaken by the catechist. He has instructed the catechist to lay especial emphasis on reading, so that all Christians can read the Bible. He is not sorry to see' people proceeding slowly to baptism; as he has more experience on the station he knows more and more about -the mistakes and failings of the people, and so can give them more and more pointed instructions. In any case several of the baptismal candidates will have to be struck off Ewabena Dako, for example, -has slept with two of the king's wives, and has been fined 36 dollars. This is an impossible sum, and he will find it hard to turn back. Kwasi Kuma, an apprentice carpenter, had never made a good impression. Though outwardly friendly he has a streak of the barrack room lawyer,-and-is in his element playing the master. At his first announcing himself as a baptismal candidate he said he had only one wife from whom in any case he had been separated for a long time. But now Mohr has heard, quite by coincidence that he is.maintaining his wife in Begoro and has another in Asiakwa. Also he is often drunk, and one Sunday beat Catechist Obeng in the public street, on the grounds that Obeng was giving him a bad name with the missionaries. (Obeng asked to be allowed to lay a charge against the man in Accra, Mohr thought it better to send the matter to the General Conference, and for them to send it on the Accra. The British Commandant has sent Obeng a present, and Kuma a sharp warning.) On the other hand the small community of the already baptised gives the missionaries much joys, and stands on its own feet in deciding what is best, and they give also to announce the reacceptance of a Christian previously excluded. Timotheo Late, from Lartey, Glatzle’s main support in the carpentry shop. He was excluded a time ago from the Larteh congregation by Asante, for 'falling’ in Akim. Opoku from Larteh had written to them that he was sincerely hoping to be re-accepted, and the missionaries have been entirely at peace with him. At the service the sermon was based on Luke 19v 20 and his reacceptance was signified by shaking of the hand. In his concluding paragraph Mohr talks about the usefulness of having the Christians on the station as they soon will. It will enable the missionaries to notice how they conduct themselves in their home life. And he is looking forward to another baptismal service. (There is a footnote from Buck to Christiansborg that the workers on the Fort had recently struck for a rise from 9d to 1/- per day.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..234 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's Third Quarterly report for 1876 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: 02.12.1876 Proper date: 02.12.1876 Description An account of the resource Reports a murder in Begoro - a slave had been punished by his master for stealing somebody else’s hen (Glatzle explains that the master is held responsible) and in revenge killed his master's wife and a woman who came to help her. The .missionaries were called by the King to see the bodies. Building - the Larteh masons have not yet returned despite having promised to do so. In the carpentry the number of skilled men has just gone up from 2 to 4 with the return of 2 Begoro men, one of whom had been discharged for disobedience, the other had a bad foot. They are employing 12 strong girls mixing swish – there is a lot of water carrying to be done and thus extra help is needed. They cannot employ more men without increasing the wages offered, since there are about 100 boys who want work, and they have about 60 employed already. The food supply situation is worse rather than better. Hens are very scarce, and though there are plenty of sheep, out of fear of the fetish priests the people are not slaughtering them. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..235 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Glatzle's Quarterly Report 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: 29.12.1876 Proper date: 29.12.1876 Description An account of the resource Recalls that in May they had asked for further £300 for building, and in August a further £600. They repeat their earlier requests for a station library, a medical kit and a seal. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..236 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Conference Protocoll 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: 28.04.1876 Proper date: 28.04.1876 Description An account of the resource The letter, written in Aburi, is printed in HEIDENBOTE, 1876, p 49. It includes information about contacts between the mission and the colonial government over Kwahu, and between Ramseyer and Prince Ansahe. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..248 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer 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: 26.05.1876 Proper date: 26.05.1876 Description An account of the resource The letter includes a list of expanditures on building to date, and an estimate of future costs. NB: The word “strike” seems to have been in use among the workers, it appears in quotes. There is a melange of letters from Abetifi in Heidenbote 1876, p 85f not quoted in extenso but combined with an editor into an article. It is mainly concerned with the fact that there had been another strike and that in mid-August there was a war-alarm. Obo, Obomen and Twenedurase seem to have been moving towards cooperation with the Asantahene. A salt-trader from Kwahu taking a consignment into Kumasi was the link with Asante. The situation calmed down again fairly quickly it seems. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..249 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 06.07.1876 Proper date: 06.07.1876 Description An account of the resource The Abetifi catechist, Stephan Sakyi, had been away from the station for two monthis. The two missionaries are nowhere near proficient in twi at this stage. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..252 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 03.08.1876 Proper date: 03.08.1876 Description An account of the resource The letter is quoted in extenso but not completely as an annex to the annual report of 1876 (p 117-118). Additional material in the manuscript includes the following, mostly about labour troubles: Once their workers had got a certain degree of skills they were showing themselves quite unashamed about demanding more pay, and if they did not get it, leaving the work. In quite a short time Weimer has had three different apprentice sawyers to train. 2 sawyers from outside Kwahu have recently left, although they are paying higher wages than they could get on the coast. Reasons which he has obviously heard for the dissatisfactions of workers from the coast are that they don’t like living with different tribe. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..253 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Weimer 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: 18.08.1876 Proper date: 18.08.1876 Description An account of the resource Reports a rumour which they feel after interview with the king has some substance, that war is in the offing between Asante and Kwahu. The Juabens staying in Kwahu are leaving for Akim. There is also a rumour that the Juabenhene is preparing to invade Asante territory. The Kwahuhene has sworn his oath that he will never subject himself to the Asante, and Werner fears that he thinks that the missionaries are people of great influence with the Colonial Government – the king has expressed the idea that they could write to the Government on his behalf. There is a subscript from Widmann saying little need of fear at this stage, since the Juabenhene is still in Cape Coast, and all the signs are that Asante is still weakened by the division between Karikari and Mensa. However he feels the governor should be informed about what is rumoured. A subscript from Buck reports that he has informed the Accra Commandant of the contents of Werner’s letter, but that people on the coast place little credence in this rumour – too many are coming out of the interior for any to be taken seriously. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..254 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 25.08.1876 Proper date: 25.08.1876 Description An account of the resource The contact between the three Kwahu sub-chiefs and Kumasi which seems to have been the base of the rumour, was a group of 4 men sent from Obo to Asante to receive the money for a delivery of salt. Werner reckons that what really happened was that Karikari, on Adu Bofo’s advice, promised this money in the event of the Kwahus returning to their allegiance to Asante. The crisis seems to have been generated in Kwahu. When the messenger came from the Protectorate – “quite out of breath” with the odd rumour about what was going out there, the tension seems to have dissolved as far as the missionaries were concerned: they were looking forward to getting the building work which had been interrupted by the crisis under way again at the beginning of the next week. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..255 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 25.10.1876 Proper date: 25.10.1876 Description An account of the resource A letter for general publication, obviously intended for the public. On the right en route from the town of Abetifi to the Mission Station is a sacred wood with huge trees, in which are a number of apes, also sacred. On left is mission land. The path is bordererd by low bush and tall grass (in an earlier letter one of the Missionaries states that they found themselves clearing an old farm when they began on the clearing of the mission station, and that most of the land around Abetifi had been farmed and would be again). There are few large trees on the mission land – 100 paces from the mission house stands a huge silk cotton tree. The chapel will stand 50 paces to the south of the building, shingled roof, stone walls at least for the lower storey. The building of a Christian community is not proceeding very fast. People are avoiding any sort of positive commitment. The great fetish Atieam has forbidden the children from attending school, and the adults from attending services. The morning service on the mission station is very little visited, and this is even the case with the Christan workers who have come to Abetifi from the south; they seem to be the throw-outs from other Christian communities, and give the local people a very bad example. The attendance at Sunday street-preaching in the town is not very striking. During the week the Catechist holds a school for five boys. Three are house-boys of the missionaries, two are sent by the king who wants them to be given instruction. They seem to be very gifted. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..257 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 25.11.1876 Proper date: 25.11.1876 Description An account of the resource A general letter about his life and work. Lamenrs the difficulties - a lack of skilled and trustworthy men (two of the sawyers were from Abokobi, and even these were pressing for higher pay), and his own inability either in twi or English (especially at the beginning of their work); were the main ones. One interesting point is that in contrast he ways with Begoro, Odum trees are quite scarce – they are having to go 20 minutes from the mission station to find Odum trees for felling, and then he will have three different parties at work on trees 10 minutes away from each other. Supervising under these conditions is trying. In the last 4 months he has supervised the sawing of 200 planks 12-20 feet long, and ¾-1 inch thick. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.X..258 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.X. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Weimer to Basel