327 20 77903 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: 14.07.1877 Proper date: 14.07.1877 Description An account of the resource Reports a campaign to tighten up the teachers' control of the school, stopping the pupils going off to Kibi without permission e.g., and making sure that evening studies were supervised. A subscript, by J.M. Müller adds that the school was certainly in great disorder. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Date's Report on the Boarding School 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: 20.09.1877 Proper date: 20.09.1877 Description An account of the resource The assembly at which Asante was first told to leave Akim consisted of Ata and the elders of Kibi, Apedwa, and Apapam, and the 'people': The two charges preferred against him were that he had taken the initiative in getting Ata's slaves baptised, and had taken the initiative in getting people from Ata's own household whose duty it was to serve him to discontinue doing so. Asante claims that neither of these is true; he does claim on the other hand that he protected the ex-slaves against their former masters (including the Okyenhene) when they fled onto the station, and indeed anywhere else - and he had done this on the instructions of Gouldsbury. He has put pressure on the servants of the Okyenhene’s family to stay in his household as long as people allowed them to, also telling them what duties were and that duties were not consistent with serving God. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..231 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante 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: 27.09.1877 Proper date: 27.09.1877 Description An account of the resource The people named in the latter re Chief Oben of Senease, Prince Kwasi Kuma, Yeboa, Yaw Bekye, Kwasi Akwabo, Apea Wusu, Berewa. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII.,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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Governor Frealing to the Okyenhene 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: 28.12.1877 Proper date: 28.12.1877 Description An account of the resource Asante had recently been on the coast over the question of events in Kibi. Buck had been invited before the Governor to answer the question to whom the Governor should approach to express himself concerning the charges made against Asante and press that he should be moved to some other district. Buck pointed him to the Generalpraeses and also said that the matter would have to be referred to Basel. He asks Dieterle to ensure that any defence of Asante's conduct before the Governor should be made through him (Buck), and adds that since the Okyenhene came out of the affair without punishment such a defence would only help with the Governor - it would not better the position in Kibi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.IV..40 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.IV. - General Cashier Title A name given to the resource Buck to Dieterle 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: 27.02.1878 Proper date: 27.02.1878 Description An account of the resource In part is printed as appendix to the 1878 Annual report of the Mission (p. 87ff). The additional material is almost entirely personal, concerning his marriage late in 1877 (at a time just after the death of one missionary wife, and when another was critically ill), though he also makes the point that very few people from Abetifi town have visited the services on the station, and their greatest contact with the people of the town has been through street preaching. The first part of the report is taken up with an account of the building epic – a labour force of 100 at times, and the weather undoing much of the work once it was done – ½ year lost in this way. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..266 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner's Annual Report for 1877 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: 28.02.1877 Proper date: 28.02.1877 Description An account of the resource Once more concerned with the question of building and build costs. They give an estimate of costs and another computation of the types of expenses incurred so far. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Station 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: 12.03.1877 Proper date: 12.03.1877 Description An account of the resource Reports in extenso the destruction of the swish walls of the 2nd storey of the mission building by an unexpected early March thunderstorm (This is mentioned in the printed 1877 Annual Report). Damage is calculated at £60. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - 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: 07.04.1877 Proper date: 07.04.1877 Description An account of the resource With the arrival of missionary Buss on the station in March came 5 carpenters, though one has since returned to the coast. Weimer can now speak twi. He reports a frequent saying among the workmen that when the buildings are finished they will all come up here and worship God, and their children will come to the .school. They have restored the damage to the mission house by setting up plank walls instead of swish ones for the Second storey. (There is a subscript by Mader complimenting the missionaries on their speedy reactions to the earlier storm damage. He also says that he hears David Asante has 'brought back a horse and a cow from Salaga). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - 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: 13.04.1877 Proper date: 13.04.1877 Description An account of the resource The letter is mostly concerned with the question of his marrying. Evidently the matter is already in train, and the father of the lady involved is not ready to give his consent without knowing more about the accommodation in Abetifi. Werner therefore informs Basel about the building-state, and their expectations over the course of the next few months. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..256 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - 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: 20.04.1877 Proper date: 20.04.1877 Description An account of the resource Part of this letter is printed in ‘Heidenbote’ 1877, p. 78 under the title “The Fetish Tree of Asiakwa”. The only part of the report relevant to the Kwahu station is that he was able to recruit craftsmen for Abetifi only in Akropong, where it seems to have been am comparatively straight-forward matter. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..263 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Buss's First Quarter Report for 1877 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: 17.05.1877 Proper date: 17.05.1877 Description An account of the resource Werner’s marriage has been arranged. He is currently in Begoro, having travelled there on his horse newly bought from Salaga. Contrasting the progress of the two stations, he says that the main problem at Abetifi is the existence of slavery. All the people working on the buildings are slaves of someone else, and so have no free will when it comes to becoming a Christian or not. Equally they cannot decide whether their children should come to school or not. However, Werner thinks that given an institution the children are boarded and clothed by the mission or a grant of money to cloth pupils twice a year (he calculates £20 p.a. for 30 pupils), they would be able to recruit a reasonable school. Governor Freeling during his visit to Akropong asked that the Kwahu missionaries should advise him over the following: - What is the state of political relations between Asante and Kwahu? - Are the missionaries well received by the Kwahus, and have they anything to fear from the Asantes? - How close is the connection between Kwahu and Salaga? - Would it be profitable or is it necessary for Kwahu to come under British protection? If so in what way should this be done? Werner says he has answered to the best of his ability. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..264 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner's First Quarter's Report for 1877 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: 31.07.1877 Proper date: 31.07.1877 Description An account of the resource Mainly an account in general of the building. He does however, write in praise of the workers whom he brought with him to Abetifi. When he shows them how to do a thing they can do it, for example, windows, which everyone knows demand very careful work they were able to tackle straight away under his guidance. The two best carpenters are Okoi from Accra, still a heathen, and Kwabla from Abokobi, a Christian. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..265 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Buss's Second Quarter Report for 1877 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: 05.09.1877 Proper date: 05.09.1877 Description An account of the resource Contains political news. They were surprised a fortnight ago to hear from the coast news of a danger of war between the Juabens and Asante. No such worry is present in Kwahu, where the impression is that the Governor had taken energetic steps to ensure that the Juaben chiefs in Akim and Akwapim kept the peace. There is a rumour that the Asantehene has given the British Government £22’000 with the request that he will keep the Juabens from going to war with Asante. 6 weeks ago they received a second teacher – Em. Dako, who has quickly organised a school of about 14 boys of between 8 and 14. So far there has been little interest in the Christian religion. They have been the object of much friendliness in the chief fetish priest, but this only underlines their mutual unacceptability. Anyone in Abetifi town who says anything against the liturgies or his rules is punished, and he and one elder are together the main source of the influence exterted against boys coming to the school. There is a subscript in this letter from Dieterle in Aburi saying that on September 9th Captain Hay travelled back to Christiansborg withy many Akim people carrying 100 guns and much powder seized from the Juaben chiefs in Akim. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..261 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XV. - 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: 15.01.1878 Proper date: 15.01.1878 Description An account of the resource The report is partially printed as an appendix to the Annual Report of the Basel Mission 1878 (p. 85ff). It is mostly phased in general terms. The Christian community has with difficulty been assembled on the quiet of the mission hill, away from the row of the heathen town. 4 have moved away, three died, the total of the end of 1877 was 28. He describes fetish reactions of a typhus epidemic. Catechist Obeng is having great success in the village round about, though only Fankyeneko is named in this connection. Additional material in the manuscript version: He describes in detail the difficulties experienced in getting the Christians out onto the mission station. One Christian had a very pretty house with all the accustomed comforts - a crude four-poster box bed, hung with ornaments and a large number of mirrors in the room. Another had an elderly father or relatives to look after who were heathens and believed that if they came into the Christian village the fetish would kill them. With others it was mainly a matter of laziness. The latter were simply commanded to move. As a digression to the above paragraph he gives a certain amount of information about furnishings etc. the bed is usually the most important piece of furniture, and often the only one. He has seen a room in Fankyeneko with no less than 13 mirrors in it; the owner must have brought one back with him every time he went to Accra. If the owner of a room has any pretence at education there will also be yellowing pictures out of an illustrated newspaper on the walls. The losses to the community are specified: - 2 carpenters, one mason and a boy who were in Begoro as a result of the building moved away (the boy to Akropong). - The deaths were of Joseph, the head of family baptised in the first group, and one of his children. The other is Johannes Asamoa, another of the first group of baptism and a member of a numerous and influential family. Since both their wives were also baptised (Asamoa’s wife with the name Sophie) the station now has to young widows. A fourth death occurred on the station at the end of the year – a maidservant who was still a heathen, and indeed her grandmother and father-in-law were both fetish priests. The Christians behaved well on the whole, except for one man who drank too much. There have been few baptismal candidates – perhaps because of the deaths on the station, though the epidemic in the town also to blame. The station now has a teacher in addition to Catechist Obeng, and though a fair number of boys have come fairly from the opposition between town and mission during the epidemic. The other villages where Catechist Obeng has worked with success are named as Osino, Dwenase, and Gyampoani. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's Annual Report for 1877 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: 15.04.1877 Proper date: 15.04.1877 Description An account of the resource They are looking forward to baptising 21 people when the chapel is consecrated on Ascension Day. 8 of them are women, 4 the wives of the men already baptised. All have been forbidden from travelling so that they may be regularly instructed and kept under the eye of the missionaries. They also hope to celebrate the first Christian marriage. The chapel has unfortunately no bell, but they are looking forward to establishing a proper liturgy of morning and evening prayers in it. So far this year the number of members of the Christian community has grown by 4 men and 4 children. 2 of the children are newly born to Joseph Su, and Johannes Asamoah. Mohr has collected the conversion histories of the men: Mose Nkroma (baptised with a small son, Immanuel). He had once stayed with a Christian family in Aburi and heard something about the contents of the Christian religion. He had also noticed how Christians behaved on his journeys for trading. He had also been much troubled by the fetish priests, when he or one of his family was ill then they had to sacrifice a sheep or some money to the fetish. With the coming of the mission he had decided to rid himself of these troubles: his wife will be baptised too 'on Ascension Day. David Asare, baptised with a son Theodor, and has a brother in the Middle school in Akropong. He had been much involved with fetish practices but claimed to have recognised that those would ruin him and therefore when the mission arrived sought work from them, became a sawyer and has worked on the station ever since. Immanuel Frey had by his own account lived a highly immoral life – his business was in the trade in spirits. He became aware of the fact that this was leading to his ruin, and decided therefore to break with his old life. He still has a ready tongue, but the missionaries have heard no evil of him. Petro saw, aged about 18 is a model of seriousness. Before his baptism he was very self-abasing. He had apparently been on intimate terms with a girl until Mader and himself came to Begoro 2 years before, and had then been very frightened by Mohr’s street preaching about the Day of Judgment. He went straight away to Kibi to join the school and so, as he thought, avoid the wrath of God. In Kibi he was one of the least gifted pupils, and has been back in Begoro working on the building for some time. Mohr is particularly pleased to bring such a penitent individual forward to baptism, his candour will let God succeed with him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's First Quarter's Report for 1877 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: 28.05.1877 Proper date: 28.05.1877 Description An account of the resource On the subject of peoples’ attitudes to the Mission he reports a general disillusionment with the fetish priests. People often say to him that they do not believe in the fetishes but they are afraid. It is true that there are other problems hindering the development of the Christian community, especially the problem of indebtedness. Once in debt there is little chance for people to escape, since apart from working for the mission there is no way of earning money – there is no market in Begoro, and if they take up trade it can only be in spirits (They are very worried indeed about the question what economic activities to take up on the mission station). He speaks about the people, thus implying that he is speaking about the limits imposed on them by slavery. No mention is made of the salt or snail trade. Another reason for the slowness of the development of the Christian community is that the elders are unhappy about the prospect of the disappearance of dancing and traditional customs. The fetish priests are in a precarious position because they see that their religion is laughed at and no longer believed in, and they do not wish to lose their influence. Yet their efforts to impress people with their mad liturgies carry little weight with the younger people, and more and more people are conscious that they are not working for the good of the people. He had recently been asked to intervene by two of the Christians - Jacob Su and Petro Saw – because a relative of them had died, and an old fetish priestess has claimed that her fetish had killed him, and therefore his body should be thrown away in the bush and not buried. Mohr took the body and had it buried on mission land, to the joy of the family. At the same time he came to the conclusion that the man had been killed by poison. He was young and healthy, but had become suddenly ill, and died within two weeks. Since then 5 people from the same family had died, all in their prime. Mohr thinks that it is his grandmother who is indeed that same fetish priestess, who has caused the death. She is old and lame and sick, and since she can no longer take attendants with her by having them killed at her funeral, she is poisoning them beforehand. He visited her and accused her of this to her face in talking to people about her he seems to have stressed that he could only see in her a poor old woman who was a trouble to herself as well as to other people; that her activities were putting her in danger of the wrath of God; and that by the fetish was to be found only slavery and death, and that she could chose the peace of the Christian community (There is no information about the woman and her fetish except that it had a house with doors painted outside in with white earth, and apparently some men keeping the house who would not let Mohr in although the woman had invited him to see the fetish. There also seems a tendency to regard the woman herself as the fetish). Speaking about the surrounding villages Mohr reports interest, but also some misapprehensions. Many people think that to become a Christian is to become looked after. Many say openly that if their – say 10 Thaler – are paid, then they will become Christians. There is also a widespread wish for the missionaries to come to individual villages and build new houses – the people would thus always have someone to serve. Nevertheless he considers, given healthy and one or two effective catechist, they could have outstations in every village between Begoro and Kibi and Begoro and Anyimam. Fankyeneko he has recommended especially as a site for a catechist. This partly because it is the crossroad where the Kukurantumi-Anyinam-Abetifi road crosses the Asiakwa-Begoro road. Of only the government would create some employment by sponsoring road building, things could go ahead faster, but there is no market centre in Akim and thus no future in each farming until the way to the coast is easier. Fankyeneko also seems a good site for a catechist in that 9 men have just come forward as baptismal candidates there. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's Second Quarter's Report for 1877 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: 03.06.1877 Proper date: 03.06.1877 Description An account of the resource Concerning his proposed marriage. He suggests his bride take some training in nursing and midwifery. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..244 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr 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: 08.08.1877 Proper date: 08.08.1877 Description An account of the resource Includes the accounts of the building both to date, and with estimates of the costs to come. There are also estimates for making a churchyard and building a wall. Work on the station so far into 1877 had been held up by the bad weather, and the lack of carpenters. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..246 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Station 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: 07.09.1877 Proper date: 07.09.1877 Description An account of the resource A description of the consecration ceremonies in the church on Ascension Day. They like Abetifi had had great difficulties putting up swish with the frequent rains. They were visited by Werner from Abetifi, the Boys Boarding School pupils from Kibi, the Kukurantumi congregation under Koranteng their catechist. All dressed in white European-style clothes, and al carrying an umbrella (Mohr was clearly scandalised by this, though he seems to have done no more than preach to his congregation later that clothes do not make a Christian). A catechist came from Odumase too, but lost his way en route and was three days late. They had a harmonium on the station, but sadly no bell. The whole population of Begoro came to the ceremony, and the chief was in the chapel both in the morning and evening celebrations. The Kibi boys sang a three-part hymn, then the whole congregation sang ‘Lobet den Herrn’ (Komfo Jehova); to hear it sung by so many people made a deep impression on everyone. David Asante was unable at the last moment to attend to preach the sermon, so that Simon Koranteng was asked to do that; Heb. 4vvv14-16 over Jesus the great high priest. Then the Begoro children sang ‘Yen asem ye yen, Awurade’. 4 men, 2 boys a little child, and 4 women were baptised. The service ended with another three-part hymn from the Kibi boys. During the whole long event the people there were all eyes and ears, very quiet. After this a meal was served for the people from outside Begoro – plantain fufu, chicken, monkey, or fish. Palm-oil or groundnuts. The afternoon service began with the hymn ’Me ne me fi’ (Ich und mein Haus will dem Herrn dienen), and then there were short speeches from Missionaries Glatzle, Werner and catechist Meier from Kibi. The Begoro catechist then gave a short sermon about marriage, and then they proceeded to the first Christian marriages in the new church – there were three pairs. The names of the pairs are given as Mose and Johanna, Johannes and Sophie, Jakob and Julie. Each mother had a baby in arms with her. Right at the end of the marriage service there was a terrific thunderclap right over the church. The weekly liturgy set up in the church is – Sundays a service and a two-hour Sunday school for old and young - morning prayers at 5.45 for the people of the station, and evening prayers to which people from the town come. There are prayer meetings twice a week also. The school is held in the chapel each weekday. Less than 6 weeks later Joseph Owosu died (he had been called Joseph Su in earlier reports). He is pictured as having died as a faithful Christian, praying to be taken to heaven since he was no good here below (his limbs we swelling up), and asking for and receiving the sacrament. Hid widow Hanna stayed on the station, though Mohr heard later that she had accused an Akwapim man of killing her husband and her only son (he dies less than a month later). The missionaries reckoned they had lost, so far as they could judge, the ‘strongest’ Christian on the station – he was an earnest man, and full of faith like a child. A school examination was held. Several boys can already read and write and make calculations. They are weak on biblical history, but Catechist Obeng is to blame since he makes them learn it off by heart, and they soon forget. Several of the boys have been chased out of their homes by their relatives and are Christian refugees on the station. School attendance is often very irregular, however, mainly on account of work with the snails. Despite the rain the Catechist Obeng has been visiting the villages in the valley below Begoro. In Fankyeneko the Baptist candidates now number 9 men, 2 women, 3 children. He has also visited Gyampomani, - formerly a large town mostly inhabited by Begoro people, which has been depopulated by strife between the inhabitants. Dwenase has also been visited – a town about the size of Fankyeneko. There is a subscript to the letter from Buck (treasurer) in Christiansborg. The shortage of carpenters is acute in Christiansborg too; Brother Seeger is having to put up his wages also. The great problem seems to be the demand for carpenters in Lagos. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's Third Quarter's Report for 1877 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: 05.10.1877 Proper date: 05.10.1877 Description An account of the resource Almost entirely concerned with the problems of building. He lost his first set of building apprentices because he was too tough with them. The second set he has been more successful with, but now they want more money, and are choosy how much work they will do, and are very irregular in attendance, using family excuses to have days drinking. Troubles are threatened in the town because most of the ordinary day-labourers are no longer needed, and they have become used to having money. The craftsmen who remain on the site have an idea of their own value, and are constantly trying to obtain more money. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..250 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-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Glatzle to Basel