330 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: 23.09.1878 Proper date: 23.09.1878 Description An account of the resource Reports that though after warning the two Akim teachers were more regular with their teaching, their family affairs still take up much too much of their time. Akims should be posted away from Akim. Also they use the stick too much s sometimes beating the whole class, during arithmetic lessons especially. He remarks too that the whole school - with one or two exceptions - is composed of slave boys, and seems rather pessimistic of achieving much with such an intake. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..219 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck'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: 25.09.1878 Proper date: 25.09.1878 Description An account of the resource The report is on tie Boarding School, and in this case intended for publication: The boys do not play actively as boys in Europe do, but they love the singing they learn with Catechist Aneba. They go to the hand work with a will (mostly cleaning the compound and farming) and are visibly a very healthy group, especially when compared with the average disease-ridden heathen boy, Concerning the ‘inner life’ of the boarding school, he writes that you must not judge the place by European standard. ‘{They come) out of the deepest swamps of heathenism and sin; in their impressionable years they have seen nothing but the fruits of heathenism, envy and brawls, conflicts and hatred and all sorts of filth, and have heard nothing but the most shameful words, nothing but scolding and insults and the master having no idea of mother love. 'They have never heard the sweet word of a mother’. Whoever wants to make a true appraisal of an African Boarding School must decide which is better: that, or a German borstal. It can be demonstrated however that the boys are attracted to Christian truth those who were baptised recently had a better grasp of their baptismal instruction when all the candidates were examined, than their adult counterparts. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..220 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Third Quarter of 1878 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.09.1878 Proper date: 23.09.1878 Description An account of the resource Marriages were blessed in the course of the year. There were also baptisms in June, one of which was of an elderly slave and his wife. He had come free from Kibi in 1875, was baptised Aaron. One and a half months after his baptism he died after a stroke, having said 'in case the Lord calls me by this sickness I go in peace and in joy; for I had lived almost my whole lifetime a slave and heathen, but now the Lord has in his mercy received me amongst his children and I have the hope that he will take me into his rest.' He had suffered problems because of arrogance among the young men Christians, but these are now passed. Catechumens often quit the town to trade and cannot be instructed. Dwaben people are building 4 towns between Akwapim and Akim, 4-5 hours from Kukurantumi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..221 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Koranteng's Report of the First Half of 1878 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 03.10.1878 Proper date: 03.10.1878 Description An account of the resource Is concerned with his performance in Bible knowledge and reading (good), etc. He is described by Eisenschmid as better than any of the evangelists already employed. Eisenschmid and Dieterle repeat the point made elsewhere that his knowledge is the result of self-study. Eisenschmid also writes that neediness in sin and grace in Christi are things he knows by experience as well as by teaching. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..214 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report on the Examining of Imm. Boakye Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 01.02.1878 Proper date: 01.02.1878 Description An account of the resource Mostly printed in Heidenbote 1878 pp36-37. At the end of the printed section is a series of paragraphs about Kumasi. Ramseyer is worried about appearing to have broken his promise to return to Kumasi, and is worried about the effect of this on the security of the Abetifi station. Should he go to Kumasi? It is only 4 days' journey. Prince Ansah whom he met in Cape Coast told him he would be surprised at the changes, and that there would not be the slightest danger. The present friendship between the Colonial Government and Ashanti and the reduction in human sacrifices would make this an appropriate moment. The Governor asked him to write to him formally about his plans, in order that the Governor should correspond with London thereon. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - 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: 25.02.1878 Proper date: 25.02.1878 Description An account of the resource An account mainly of his journey to Abetifi from Europe. At Cape Coast they went ashore and visited Prince Ansah, and Dr Horton who had treated Mrs Ramseyer so well in 1869. The Ramseyers went to Abetifi accompanied by two girls, one of them Elizabeth, they had taken care of in Kumasi, and since their journey from Kumasi she had been in the girls' boarding school in Aburi (Her day name was Akosua). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer to Friends in Neuchatel 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: 08.05.1878 Proper date: 08.05.1878 Description An account of the resource Final accounts of the building of the station. The protocol asks for permission to build a teacher's house, since Dako is planning to marry shortly which will make the catechists' house no longer an adequate lodging for him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Letter from the Whole Abetifi Staff 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: 31.05.1878 Proper date: 31.05.1878 Description An account of the resource Werner has a debt of £46, though at the same time he possesses cattle to the value of £11 (sheep that is). Weimer applies for £17 - both blame the heavy demands on their clothing of the building period, though Eisenschmid adds in a subscript that bachelor housekeeping is always more expensive than on a station where there is a wife to keep things under control. (In Heidenbote 1878 pp75f there is an article by Mrs Werner on the consecration of the church in Abetifi dated 16 Jun 78. The manuscript appears to have been printed as a whole. In Heidenbote there is too an engraving purposing to show the chapel and the mission house - it would appear that the mission-house was completely of its present size at this stage.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Stations 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: 26.06.1878 Proper date: 26.06.1878 Description An account of the resource Forwards a French report to the people in Neuchatel. The English Regime have informed him that they are not prepared to give him a letter of recommendation to the Asantehene - but he is worried by the report of a Jesuit from Strassburg having visited Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - 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: 21.01.1879 Proper date: 21.01.1879 Description An account of the resource The report is partly printed as an appendix to the Basel Mission Annual Report 1879, pp70-71. Looking back over the period in which they built the station, Mohr reckons that 'hundreds' of boys, young women, and men were involved in the work. In the course of the year Catechist Obeng was posted to Fankyeneko, and Catechist Benjamin Ntow from Aburi came to Begoro as catechist. Elements in the report on the station liturgy - women come rarely to morning liturgy. Sunday and sometimes Wednesday evenings street preaching in Begoro accompanied by the Christians and the school children. The Begoro people do not come to the chapel services as much as the missionaries would like. Thursday evenings there is bible study, Friday evenings a prayer meeting, Saturday evenings the catechist gathers the adults to go over the order of the community. They have been carrying on house-visiting in Begoro, and carrying on conversations with people they meet on the street - they describe the growth of the Christian community by 10 catechumens soon to be baptised, and the many heathen who, although part of them are still timid, have compared the fetish religion with Christianity and found in the latter 'truth and sweetness’. Work outside Begoro in the course of the year has been limited by the amount of building which remained to be done. Mohr made one 3-day journey through the villages at the foot of the mountain, and made four long visits to Fankyeneko in connection with the instruction and baptism of the new Christians there. In the course of this, activity he has pioneered a new and more comfortable way from Begoro to that town. The two catechists together have done 86 days' travelling, and have visited Osino, Samang, Anyinam, Adasawaase, Akantease, Abompe, Dwenase, Gyanpomani, Dome. In most villages the catechists are well received - in the area around the old Gyadam station people say they have already been promised a teacher but none has come, and now many villages want a teacher and in many people have come forward for baptism. They are being served from Fankyeneko, Osino and Dwenase - Catechist Oben goes to the latter towns on weekday. Fankyeneko: 11 baptised in May, 1 woman and 2 children baptised early in January 1879. At the date of writing the Christian community numbered, 11 adults and 8 children (including the catechist and family). (Dome is only 10 minutes away, Gyampomani 1/2 hour away, and Sunday evening services are held in them by turns). Since mid-November there has been a school with 4 children. They are having difficulty getting children into the school in Begoro. The local people equate school and Christianity, and fear that if a child goes to school the family will be visited by ill-luck or death - and the child will make himself free of the family too quickly. (This latter is expanded as the children becoming unwilling to be pawned, or sold into marriage once they have been to school. Girls are wanting to come into the Christian community in order to excape marriage to a heathen). So far they have had 7 boys and 2 girls in the school - 4 of them will go on to the Kibi boarding school's higher classes. From the beginning of 1879 it will be obligatory for Christians to send their children (whether baptised or not) to school so that should give a total of 18 pupils for the new term. (The teacher is Andreas Adu). Numerically the Christian community in Begoro has increased by a total of 16. 12 adult heathen and 5 heathen children were baptised, and so were 2 new-born children of Christian parents. 5 more Christians from other places came to Begoro. 5 were lost to the community through moving away, and 3 were excluded. Total in the Christian community at the end of 1878: 66. Mohr is content that the community should not grow too quickly - he thinks that people whom it has cost something to become Christians are more likely to prove faithful. The opposition experienced by the Christian community at the end of 1877 continued in 1878 on account of the accusation that they were responsible for the wave of deaths in the town through the cutting down of Odum trees. For a time people forbade the heathen from selling salt and foodstuffs to the community, and still the Christians have to pay extra. He also offers a case history of fetish opposition to one convert — a horn-blower (one of two) to one of the Begoro fetishes whose priest was a woman regarded by the people as a witch. The priestess was not a party to the situation since she was away from Begoro at a farming village. The man's family were panic stricken and would not allow him to become a Christian because they feared he would die. Mohr emphasises this by saying that he was not seeking his freedom (he was a slave of the priestesses’ family) - he wanted to become a Christian and knit to continue to serve his master truly - though he would no longer blow the fetish horn. Christianity was ‘sweet’ to him. He came onto the station for an afternoon, but at the end of the time went to see his relatives again who softened his resolution. But it is known in the town that he no longer believes in the fetishes. (In the printed section there is an account of one Kwasi Kuma's threat to poison the Christians, of which he was convicted by the evidence of heathen witnesses, and imprisoned for several months. One p3 of the manuscript is added the point that this affair disrupted the smooth running of the station liturgies and catechising for much of the second half of the year, and this because (p.9) he and all the witnesses had had to go to Accra where the affair had gone before an English judge. Kuma had received 3 month’s sentence. He also offers a case history of fetish opposition to one convert — a horn-blower (one of two) to one of the Begoro fetishes whose priest was a woman regarded by the people as a witch. The priestess was not a party to the situation since she was away from Begoro at a farming village. The man's family were panic stricken and would not allow him to become a Christian because they feared he would die. Mohr emphasises this by saying that he was not seeking his freedom (he was a slave of the priestesses’ family) - he wanted to become a Christian and knit to continue to serve his master truly - though he would no longer blow the fetish horn. Christianity was ‘sweet’ to him. He came onto the station for an afternoon, but at the end of the time went to see his relatives again who softened his resolution. But it is known in the town that he no longer believes in the fetishes. (In the printed section there is an account of one Kwasi Kuma's threat to poison the Christians, of which he was convicted by the evidence of heathen witnesses, and imprisoned for several months. One p3 of the manuscript is added the point that this affair disrupted the smooth running of the station liturgies and catechising for much of the second half of the year, and this because (p.9) he and all the witnesses had had to go to Accra where the affair had gone before an English judge. Kuma had received 3 month’s sentence. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr's Annual Report for 1878 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: 26.01.1878 Proper date: 26.01.1878 Description An account of the resource Includes accounts of the buildings at Begoro to that date. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..228 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Station's 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: 02.04.1878 Proper date: 02.04.1878 Description An account of the resource Reports about a 2-day journey which he made with Ramseyer preaching along the path between Abetifi and Kwahu-Tafo. At Bukuruwa the king was building a new house, and invited them all to come and live in it when it was finished, since it would be big enough. At Tafo they found that the king and many of his people were away fishing. The hut where Ramseyer had slept in Tafo while a prisoner was in ruins - and Ramseyer remarked that all the huts where they had stayed which he had seen since his return were in ruins. In this case they heard that the owner of the hut had poisoned his wife, and then himself committed suicide. In the evening in Tafo they collected the majority of the inhabitants for preaching. Ramseyer talked about the reliability and kindness of God, and gave the example of his own life. The feared Asantes had been able to do nothing to him but in fact had helped to spread the gospel. At Borukuwa on the way back they found that a fetish priestess had collected the people, but she drew back then she saw the missionaries and thus allowed them to preach. It was on this journey that the missionaries first heard of and saw the water-fall at Amama. In his final comment Glatzle describes the people of Kwahu as enslaved, presumably this is a cliche about their religious situation. In Osino on the way back to Begoro his sleep was disturbed from about 11p.m. by a smith working next door. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Quarterly Report for the First Quarter by Glatzle 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: 10.04.1878 Proper date: 10.04.1878 Description An account of the resource The impact of the struggle between Atta in Kibi and David Asante, and the latter's being posted away from Kibi, has been that people feel that Atta has won a victory, and that he has acted or the basis of recognised rights. In the typhus epidemic 170 people died. The pigs which were first driven out to appease the fetishes had been bought in Larteh and Kwahu. Mohr’s angle on the situation in this report is to cite Amos c3v6 and argue that the deaths were God trying to lead the people to himself. Once the mission was accused of being the cause they were no longer allowed to preach and visit in the town. And a major outbreak occurred in March, when they set out to cut down another Odum. It was lead by Abam the Asafohene, who gathered the people together and issued the order about not selling to the ehristiens, and also began to talk about driving Mohr out of Begoro just as Asante had been driven out of Kibi. Mohr communicated with Christiansborg, where Dieterle and Buhl discussed the matter orally with the governor. The latter sent a warning to the Begorohene, who had not been there when the trouble started, but in any case would do nothing since Abam was his rival, and had all the young hotheads with him. The Asafohene has just recently started a case against the fetish priest of Osino before Atta on the grounds that he was connected with the death roll in 1877. But the fetish priest of Osino is in Accra in order to get the case decided there. Although on the whole in the last year the people have been hostile to the Christian community there evidences of contrary opinions too. The heathen indeed are aware that an overthrow of fetishism and the power of the old customs in favour of Christianity is brewing. And the great mass of the people sympathise with the missionaries. They want enlightenment and full freedom, though by freedom they understand only freedom from subjection to the priests. On that account everyone would be pleased to see many white people in the country though a minority think that the whites are come in pursuit of money. (Mohr notes in parenthesis - how could they gain advantage for themselves out of what they are doing?) Only the catechists do not equate 'being white' with 'having money'. The Akims have many requirements which can only be obtained with money, and for that on the whole they have to work for the whites. It will be easier for the mission when the government starts to develops road and water transport in Akim. The Begoro people are dissatisfied that payment for building has stopped - they think employment of that kind should have gone on. The Christians are not interested in coffee planting - that would take too long before it brought in any returns. The Akim custom is to go off and trade as soon as one has a few thaler. Many of the Christians have said to Mohr that previously they had lost their money through drinking spirits and through fetish priests - and that they became Christians because they knew that the Christians would not be molested (presumably by the latter). With most of the people who become Christians it is not out of hunger and thirst for the word of god or the longing for inner peace, but because they need political peace and they want to participate in the benefits of Christianity. He asked one of the elders why he thought the missionaries were preaching, and his reply was that they intended to found a large new town, in order to get glory and honour therefrom. In fact they are all the while battling against the idea that the Christian community is politically separate from Begoro town. ‘We tell our people all the time to recognise the fact that they are subjects of the political authority and only to withdraw themselves from heathen practices.’ Not only in Begoro but also at the foot of the hills it is very rarely that one comes across a deep feeling of the guilt of sin, and a sense of a man's being worthy for damnation. Mostly people have to be taken by the hand and lead to the admission 'I am a sinner'. On the whole people admit readily to whatever one accuses them of in preaching, and, when one goes through the history of the Son of God who died for the sins of the world and has risen again in order to bring salvation to everyone you often hear them say ‘Waye ade ama yen ampa' i.e. 'He has truly done a lot for us'. But does one hear someone say 'So what should I do to become holy?' (However the Holy Ghost is at work as well) They are preparing the first baptismal candidates in Fankyeneko, about 12 of them. Few were actually there at his last visit, some had gone to Accra, others to other places. One of the baptismal candidates is the head of a numerous band of relatives and has assured Mohr that should a catechist be stationed at Fankyeneko they will most of them become Christians. In the Begoro school the boys have taken four weeks out of the last two months as holidays, some to collect snails, and others to go fishing. On Mohr expostulating with them most of them said they would not attend school any more unless they were given clothes. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..232 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Report from Mohr to Basel on the Attitudes of the People of Begori and the Surroundig Villages 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: 15.08.1878 Proper date: 15.08.1878 Description An account of the resource The part of this report concerning the first baptisms in Fankyeneko is printed in Heidenbote 1879 pp9-10. They are having much difficulty getting pupils for the Begoro school. At the end of June he held an examination for the 7 boys and 1 girl who had been attending, and the results were satisfactory. But when they tried to reopen in August no children came, and the elders said no children should attend unless they were given clothes. Mohr suggested as a compromise a gift at Christmas of simple 'country clothes' to children who had attended assiduously. As a result of this there are now 6 boy pupils, and 1 girl. Mohr feels that people are no to be criticised too severely - the fetish priests, warning about the danger of death if a child went to the school is worrying parents still. The chief has sent his eldest son to Mohr as a houseboy. But the elders apparently felt it was Mohr personally who was cheating their children out of their due presents of clothes. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Quarterly Report for the Second Quarter of 1878 from Mohr 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: 01.11.1878 Proper date: 01.11.1878 Description An account of the resource Application for authorisation to spend £45 on building a catechist' house in Fankyeneko and 36 dollars on the purchase of land. (Full financial details not noted). Their presentation of the application includes the point that they wish to pay the local Christians if they help with the building, since they are all either in debt, or have relatives whom they want to get out of pawn. One has an old father pawned to a rich man Begoro (presumably - 'here') for 36 dollars, another while another is heavily in debt through having to pay the head-tax for his wife. In a subscript Buhl argues that they should pay only 20 thalers for the land, because Missionary Buck has paid 25 dollars for the land in Obomosu, and 16 dollars for the land in Asiakwa. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..230 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Station's 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: 29.01.1879 Proper date: 29.01.1879 Description An account of the resource A part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1879 Annual Report of the Basel Mission. Buss in his journey to Salaga purchased a horse and some cattle for Abetifi - no information is offered as to their survival. The church was consecrated and the first baptisms celebrated at Whitsun 1878. Discussing the people baptised Ramseyer says he has never seen people so serious at their baptismal service. Certainly some of them have caused the missionaries anxiety through their restricted knowledge, and have needed directions and warnings to keep them on the right lines, nevertheless they are willing and obedient and intend to be Christians in the true sense of the word. He offers an example of the sort of difficulty which has arisen - one of the baptised men Benjamin Osee announced to Ramseyer that he had sent his wife away (Ramseyer explains that the sign of this is throwing white earth onto the wife's foot, or making a white-earth streak on her back). The trouble was that although his wife, who was a heathen, wanted to have their young child baptised her mother did not and the wife and he had argued fiercely about the matter, at the end of which he had taken the advice of a heathen woman bystander and sent the wife away. Ramseyer explained to him that the Christian loves his wife and mother-in-law and in spite of the difficulties prays that God will bring them to wanting to have the child baptised, and advised him to go and sort things out. This he did after a few days, and some months later the mother in law was content to see the child baptised, this made a good impression on the families who saw thereby that the mission stood on the side of what they saw was right in the situation. This same woman is the mother of the most earnest of the new Christians, (Nathaniel) and almost a year ago sent her youngest daughter into the service of the missionaries. But she will not let her third child become a Christian (this is Benjamin Osee's wife) since if she does there, will be no-one to perform the customs for her when she dies. After the first baptisms they had expected to find themselves with a class of three baptismal candidates, but it turned out that two of the people involved thought that at baptism their debts would be. Paid. Only one went on with a long course of baptismal instruction and was baptised on 20th October, Daniel Dente. A slave born in the house and consecrated to Dente at an early age. His master was opposed to his baptism until he saw that the Christians are not outside the traditional law providing it is not in opposition to Christianity. Services on the station on Sunday morning are not well attended by people from the town - but they are at their farms. In the evening there is usually about 300 people at the evening service held under a great tree in the main street. They listen very attentively, and it was through street preaching that the five baptismal candidates were brought into the church. He reports a case which appears to represent Dente reactions to the Christians. One of them, Johannes Ata had been helped by Missionary Werner several months ago to pay a debt. He had incurred it several years before living in Kibi. In October Ata’s brother came to Abetifi from Krakye - he seems to be the right hand man of the fetish priest there - and therefore his financial position is sound. For several weeks nothing happened, and then the brother explained to Johannes that he would pay the debt if he gave up being a Christian. The latter refused although this was discussed several times, and in the end the brother threatened to shoot him if he ever came into the town. The missionaries persuaded him not to flee to Akira, and complained about the behaviour to the Chief, but it seemed that the man had such power in Abetifi and was so angry everyone was afraid of him. In the end little trouble occurred only on Christmas day, when the Christians were going out of the station to the town dressed in the clothes which they had obtained for themselves. He rushed on them - one was slapped in the face, another had his hat destroyed. The Christians returned to the station, the missionaries complained to the chief, and the man promised not to molest his brother or the Christians again. In 28 days of preaching journeys the missionaries have travelled through the whole of Kwahu, and many of the main towns have been visited 6-8 times. Kwahu has 5 real towns, 6 large villages, 12 little villages, as well as a number of hamlets. They have failed to visit only one of the little villages Peteko on the other side of the Afram, 5-6 hours from Abetifi, and the seat of the well-known fetish Fofie - a very influential fetish to whom each year a great number of Kwahus make pilgrimage (Ramseyer has been using the horse now that it has got acclimatised to lighten the burden of the travel). Ramseyer describes a journey to the fetish Buruku - the tall rock pillar in Kwahu, in early November. The way led through the village of Bakuruwa (nearby is a beautiful waterfall called Ko Abena), Tafo (where they avoided revealing the purpose of their journey, since the Buruku priest lived in that village) and afterwards the Ahenase way branched from the track they were on. They reached a strongly flowing stream, and then after 2-3 minutes the plantation of the slaves of Buruku. Ramseyer describes these as being from the interior, living in a hamlet of 10-12 houses, He explained to them that it was not necessary for missionaries to ask permission to go to places and there seems to have been no opposition to his visit among these few villages, although Ramseyer later heard that the priest in Tafo had fined them a sheep for allowing him to go up to the rock face. From the village the rock face was 4 hour of tough climbing away – Ramseyer reckons the slope at 50°. They first visited it by moonlight on the night of their arrival in case by morning some messenger from Tafo should have come to prevent them. The only signs he saw of sacrifices etc. under the rock were the actual sacrificial rock with an overhang acting as a roof, and the yellow splashes of eggs. By day at this level the view was hemmed in by trees. The rock itself was too vertical to be climbed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Station Abetifi for the Year 1878 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: 04.02.1879 Proper date: 04.02.1879 Description An account of the resource The school was opened on 1st July with Emmanuel Dako as teacher. In the first month the women supplying the food were paid 1/6 -.this was too little and it has been raised to 2/-. The school opened with 12 pupils, and they were joined by another after a short while, but greatly to the missionaries' surprise after 2 months 5 left. Perhaps the teacher was too strict with them and perhaps too the school did not come up to their expectations as a place where food and clothing was provided, since it involved work with the head and the hands. Shortly after Christmas they made a journey around the main Kwahu towns to recruit more boys for the school. They seem to have been well received everywhere (Aduamoa, Obo, Obomeng, Mpraeso, Bepong, Sakraka, Taro), with the possible exception of the first place where the chief sent to say he was too sick to see them. In Obomeng a custom was stopped in order to let Werner preach. Obo promised 4 boys and so did Mpraeso: both those places seem to have kept their word. Tafo promised but no boys have arrived. Little emerges as to the life of the school. At Christmas the boys received a new suit of clothes, and there was a Christmas tree with presents from friends in Berne. Often in the evening when you visit the boys' quarter you find them at prayer. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..260 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner's Annual Report on the Boys 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: 08.08.1878 Proper date: 08.08.1878 Description An account of the resource This letter accompanies a sketch he has made of the southerly aspect of the Abetifi station. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - 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: 28.08.1878 Proper date: 28.08.1878 Description An account of the resource The letter to the Basel Conmittee is an appeal to be allowed to visit Kumasi with the end in view of establishing a Basel station there. His reason for writing at that moment seems to be alarm at the prospect of a Catholic station being set up. Bonnat told him that when he had approached the Holy Ghost fathers they had told him that they could not contemplate a Kumasi mission, at that time, but perhaps again in 2-3 years when Bonnat himself was in the country they might, and that was 3 years ago. He feels that his period of captivity was a call to him personally to work in Kumasi, and gives the Basel Mission the best right of any society to work there. Equally once let, the Roman Catholic mission get established and it will become much more difficult for the Basel Mission to get started. He also thinks he could act as peacemaker between Asante and Kwahu. Several Kwahus have approached him in this connection. His wife agrees that they should accept the parting for at most 3-4 weeks, especially as the journey can now be undertaken with no risk at all. He also seems to have a consciousness that financial difficulties are worrying the Basel Committee, saying that one storey swish built house with four rooms would be adequate as a start, and that an actual station in Kumasi would be good from the aspect of getting collections in the supporting churches. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - 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: 16.07.1878 Proper date: 16.07.1878 Description An account of the resource Prince Ansah communicates the visit of Rev Mr Gommenginger to Kumasi - he did not reveal the intentions of the Roman Catholic missionaries in regard to the place. Prince Ansah thinks, (though he offers no reasons for this) that now is the time to establish a mission in Kumasi. He reports on the situation vis-a-vis Gyaman – Berekum has been involved in a little fight with the Gyaman which nearly led to a general war. He himself set out for Kumasi when he heard the rumour of an Asante-Gyaman war to add his voice to the peace party in Kumas, taking with him (He writes as if he were the head of the expedition, and there is no hint as to whether it was under someone else's patronage), Dane C. Nielsen, whom he sent'to Bonduku. But the latest news is that he has died in Bonduku and that the king of Gyaman treated him badly (He had with him a Mr. Huyiecoper as interpreter). Another complication is that a dissident chief is being helped by the king of Gyaman to invade Nquaransah, 'a province of Asante’. War pressures are therefore growing in Kumasi. He asks Ramseyer to intercede with the Kwahus to live at peace with the Asantis, they are not letting Asantis pass at the moment, though he intends to send this letter via Agogo, Asamoah’s village’. In a postscript he again asks Ramseyer to come, his influence so that the road may be opened so that Ansah may be able to visit Abetifis. And also asks Ramseyer to procure him a horse the roads from Salaga to Asante are closed too. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Letter from Prince Ansah to Ramseyer