333 20 77825 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 01.03.1881 Proper date: 01.03.1881 Description An account of the resource The letters No. 205, 213, 214 and 215 belong together. A summary is given in Letter No. 215. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck and Huppenbauer: Report of the Journey to Kumasi 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/. Description An account of the resource The letters No. 205, 213, 214 and 215 belong together. A summary of the four letters is given here. A report of the journey is also printed in "Der Heidenbote", 1881, pp 43ff (based on No. 213). The letter No. 215 is printed for the Friends of the Asante Mission, June 1881. Reports having had 5000 troops march by them - they reckoned that 50,000 people were present at their ceremonial welcome. The letter No. 215 is not a comprehensive translation, although it has a calculation which seems to be absent from the version in the “Heidenbote” and indeed from Letter No. 213 that they passed through 79 inhabited places, in most of which they preached. The letter No. 214 seems to be independent. Huppenbauer offers as part-justification for the journey the idea that the missionaries must be much more mobile if they are to have their full effect. In discussing their journey towards Kumasi Huppenbauer mentions the stretch of deserted woodland which stretches between Akim and Asante, and says that the Akim people have many horrifying creatures - one an enormous man clothed in iron. To prove his existence they told the story 80 hunters who went in search of him, only one of whom returned with a frequent of the iron, which was now a fetish in a village which the missionaries visited on their return journey. The fetish Huppenbauer says was an old European helmet gone rusty - they concluded it must have belonged to some earlier slave-raider who had been killed or in some other way lost the helmet. Describing the street preaching at Yayaso on the first night after leaving Asnum, Huppenbauer writes that it is no good when you are the first person to preach in a village talking about salvation in Christ, when the people have no idea that there is a living God, and have no idea what sin is. Instead you have to persuade them with different examples that there is a God who rules over men; and then by talking about the commandments you introduce the idea of sin. After Huppenbauer had finished speaking in this town Deacon Date took up the 10 Commandments with the chief who claimed to keep the Sabbath holy, but on the other hand agreed that they did not work all of the other six days of the week. Date also questioned people as to how they stood in relation to the commandment against adultery. They had a tent with them. In a description of their visit to Obogu Huppenbauer mentions conversations on the streets in evening, which went on so long the missionaries felt they were being kept from bed; and the fact that one of the topics discussed was Europe. They seem to have been repeated asked to sing. The report that they slept in the bed of the Chief of Odumase seems to have originated out of the fact that after their great argument with him about their movements, they had a further argument about where they were to sleep. At first they could find no suitable hut, so they started to pitch their tent. But then people told them that a leopard had been active in the village, and had mutilated no less than 5 people in their own huts in the previous few days. The chief personally tried to dissuade them from using the tent when they proved stubborn, but he was not able to persuade them to come into a hut. In several of towns during this part of the journey their coming caused a major panic - the worst example seems to have been Obohankra, where most people packed their possessions and left the town for the first night of their stay. One of the things which the people of considered a possible reason for their visit was that they were to force new laws on the Asantehene - but they explained on the contrary that they were ambassadors of God. After confidence had been established, Huppenbauer reports that many people came from the surrounding district to see them, and to hear what their 'Word' was. There appears to have been some to-ing and fro-ing over the question of when they would be allowed into Kumasi. In Obohankra they were told that they would meet the king on Saturday; after they had endeavoured to have this brought forward they were told they must wait till Monday, but they then acted as if Saturday was the day, having informed the Asantehene that he must not change his mind when he was dealing with Europeans. On the day when they expected to be taken into Kumasi they were lead throughh the bush on narrow footpaths, and believed that they were being deliberately led around till it would be too late to enter the town - they then refused to eat until they knew what the position was (they remembered this as a feared sanction in Remseyer and Kühne's account of their captivity). Whether they were being fair in their judgement is not clear, since the messenger who was sent off to the king to report their hunger-strike returned within 30 minutes with the answer that they should eat because they would certainly meet the King, and an advanced party of their own people whom they sent off to check that the path indicated was indeed leading to Kumasi returned with this assurance within a quarter of an hour. On the other hand, they spent the previous night at Ayegyea, which Huppenbauer reckons was ¾ of an hour from Kumasi, and they walked for much longer than ¾ hour before reaching the town. Huppenbauer writes twice that this entry was on a Saturday (the account in Heidenbote has Sunday as the day of entry). Describing the various processions of welcome, he gives the name of the chief linguist as Opoku, the three senior princes bringing up the rear before the Asantehene as Nsuta Mampong and Bantama, and the Asantehene himself preceded by 4 boxes of gold dust which must have weighed 152 pounds (he gives no indication of how this figure was established). On the Sunday the King had given instructions that no-one was to disturb them. Date conducted a service in their lodgings from which some Ashantes were excluded by the sword-bearer on the grounds that they were a disturbance. In his description of the audience with the Asantehene he says that there were 15-18,000 people present. They informed the king that they were wanting to see whether it would be possible to travel in Asante, preaching. They were given by the king, besides a great deal of food, £16 gold dust. They wanted to refuse the latter, but were advised that it would not be tactful, so they took it to cover their travelling costs. Indeed, they needed much of it to buy gifts for the servants etc. who had been looking after them. The occasion when permission for street preaching was refused was a return visit paid by the missionaries to the palace after the king had visited them in their house, in order to see how they were accomodated etc. That occasion was not one which the missionaries found they could turn to conversation, however. Their street preaching was apparently received with considerable interest - the day they began it, their house was surrounded constantly and far into the night by people wanting to hear what they had to say. Writing in general about Kumasi and Asante, Huppenbauer says that the place where Ramseyer and Kühne stayed is now marked only by the mango and breadfruit trees which they planted - otherwise the place has become the sanitary tip for the town. It is half rebuilt - but is still a really big town, and very thickly peopled. The market is now of little importance, since the closing of the ways north, and everything especially salt and tobacco is exceedingly dear. People sigh under the hard yoke and long for delivery. Mensa does not have so many people executed as Karikari, he prefers levying heavy fines. Nevertheless Huppenbauer doubts if the 'murder-system' is totally disused – there was a terrible smell from the place where the corpses used to be thrown, and they were not allowed actually to go there - people turned them back, saying the king did not wish them to visit it. Missionary work would be impossible in the areas still under Asante rule, since they are all slaves of the Asantehene, and would not come forward for baptism without his permission. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..215 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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck and Huppenbauer: From Kyebi to Kumasi and back Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.01.1881 Proper date: 18.01.1881 Description An account of the resource A new chapel is being built in Kibi, and there are 21 houses in the Christian village (excluding missionaries' and teachers' houses). 14 houses in the Salem at Kukurantumi. Asiakwa is listed as having been founded in 1877, therebeing mission land, a temporary chapel and a catechist's house there only. Abomosu founded 1878 with mission land, a deacon's house, a temporary chapel and a Christian village. Asunafo similar (founded 1879), Tumga - founded 1880, mission owns plot of land, a teacher's house being rented. Kwabeng as Abomosu. Apapam similar (no dates for founding), Apewa founded 1880 but Catechist still in rented-house thugh plot of land owned. Asiamang founded 1880, catechist in rented house. Tete (outstation) - several Christian houses. Akropong, another outstation, with several Christian houses. Changes in personnel: D. Huppenbauer was posted to Kibi after Lodholz' death, and Buss worked for two months on the Kibi buildings. Cat. W. Tete was transferred from Kibi to Asiamang, Chr. Meyer was exchanged with Th. Anang out of consideration for his health and family circumstances. Fr. Okanta was transferred from Begoro to Kibi and stationed at Tumfa as evangelist. Joseph Labi, newly graduated fnom the Akropong seminary was stationed in Apedwa. The most notable aspect of the year was the large increase in the number of Christians, 204 of whom 158 were adult. A high proportion of these were already married. The large increase in numbers of Christian marriages has taken place in the last year. He is pleased to report too that fathers are taking more interest in the 'upbrining of their children, and there was no case in the year of the previous frequent occurrence of quarrels between parents and uncles. Heathenism seems to be on the defensive. Ata of course is in jail in Lagos as a common criminal, and a recent petition on his behalf has been thrown out by the Governor, who has made it clear that he will punish opposition to the mission. Another hindrance to Mission advance was removed when Sakyia, the deceased King Atta's widow (Eisenschmid footnotes 'sister') died, That the King had been a main hindrance showed itself in the way that on his removal a large number of Kibi people announced themselves for baptism. Kibi - 75 baptisms in the year, though this included people from Tete, Akropong and Apedwa. The true Kibi total was 58, the community now numbering 24 inclusive of the school. They took the full and punctual attendance at services on both Sundays and weekdays as happy evidence of what they were achieving - the missionary zeal of the whole community under the leadership of Imm. Boakye has also impressive. They would all go, for example, to preach in one of the neighbouring villages like Apapam, Tete and Adadentem. The success of the last year is re-inforcing itself, with people frequently bringing their relatives into the church. A number of the converts have started to make farms, too . The coming year with its need for work on the church will be a test of how far people are prepared to work for their new religion. Kukurantumi - 98 in the community and a relatively small increase in the course of the year. Buck puts this down to the fact that a chapel is being built, which deters people from joining a community. The building has involved an extra tax being put on all the grown males of £1. Unfortunately there has been strife between 'freeborn members' of the Kukurantumi community and the Kibi community, the former accusing the latter of rising against their erstwhile master and causing his downfall. Asiakwa - 130% increase, with a school in progress. It was a mistake however to be so slow in moving the Christians out into their own village. Abomosu and its outstations - Abomosu and Salem look a model Christian villages with its well laid-out streets and large healthy houses, but they have had a great deal of difficulty there over the course of the year. The problem has been that though there has been a deacon's house to build, unlike Anyinam and several other places the local people have had to find half the money, and have rebelled against this. The Presbyter, Thomas Bugyei, 'promised to become a second Osabutey, but lacked the money'. Asunafo - give the missionaries very little trouble Kwabeng - of the handful baptised 4 were from Banso. Several Kwabeng Christians fell away after quarrelling with the catechist. No woman will become a Christian in Kwabeng, the catechist's wife gives them no good example spending most of the year in Akwapim. The strongest Christians are now building a catechist's house and resettling themselves on mission land. Apapam - 14 baptisms, 51 Christians altogether. A plot of land has been bought at last after the Governor's intervention, Apapam being quite in the power of the Akim royal family. Apedwa - no chief had been so opposed to the mission as the chief here saying he would permit no catechist to reside, and forbidding his people to meet with a catechist, even at street-preaching. A special message from the Governor forced him to sell the mission land, however. One of the Apedwa Christians living in Kibi saw to it that a house was built. Asiamang has proved a disappointment - though the whole town asked for a catechist, once one was a pointed there was no enthusiasm for building him a house. Perhaps he should be posted elsewhere - e.g. Kade or Osanase (his brief had been to work in the towns of the South West and West, as far as Asuum). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..150 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Year 1880 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: 27.02.1880 Proper date: 27.02.1880 Description An account of the resource The report is mostly printed in Heidenbote 1880, pp43-44. Additional points: He gives the figure of 8 people who had broken with fetishism in Otumi. He also lists the catechumens over and above those mentioned in the printed portion of the report - 22 in Kibi, 16 in Asiakwa, 2 in Kwabeng, 12 in Abomosu. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..142 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource A Quarter's Report from Buck 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: 28.06.1880 Proper date: 28.06.1880 Description An account of the resource In the chapel building he had only one skilled assistant - the rest of the people had to be taught e.g. shingling. He himself was busy with the stone-breaking and building in swish. One woman has to be excluded for adultery, and another suspended from communion for quarrelsomeness. He announces 'the sorrowful death of our dear chief Ampaw'. He discovers Ampaw's successor has no interest in attending Koranteng's preaching. In the district he has had attentive hearers especially at Tafo where the people press for a teacher of their own, In Mmase there are Christians - 3 adults and 2 children. Andreas Ewi, whose travelling was curtailed through illness, visited the Juaben towns - the chiefs there order their people out to listen to street preaching as Koranteng found out himself in 1879 when travelling to Akwapim. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..143 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Koranteng's 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: 08.07.1880 Proper date: 08.07.1880 Description An account of the resource The report is printed in full in Heidenbote 1880, pp.75-76. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..145 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Second Quarter of 1880 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: 21.07.1880 Proper date: 21.07.1880 Description An account of the resource The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1880, pp90-91. Additional information: He describes Asuum as the same size as Begoro, and names the Ashanti town which one reaches after 1.5 days from Asuum Oboku. Several months before a fetish priest had promised to show the people of Osenase how to make gold if they would build him a house. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..144 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource D. Huppenbauer's Report for the Second Quarter of 1880 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: 28.07.1880 Proper date: 28.07.1880 Description An account of the resource One of the school teachers had been called to Accra for the case against Ata. Buck's way of finding out how things had gone during the absence of himself and one of the teachers was to order a quick inspection of clothes and books. The results were fairly good. The half year's clothes are still cut out by the teachers and sewn by the senior boys. Buck was almost completely satisfied with the half year's examination - only the progress of the two youngest classes in arithmetic concerned him. Two pupils were able to proceed to the Akropong Middle School and did so: Samuel Tawia from Asuum and James Wusu from Kukarantumi. A third, William Amanee, returned to his home town without explanation though he could have gone on to the Middle School. At the opening of the new school year they had been surprised by the re-appearance of Asubo, the son of a Juaben man, who had been taken away from the school the year before and they had heard had been prevented by force from returning. On his return he explained that he had made so much fuss and so many pleas that in the end he had been allowed to return to school. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..146 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck on the Kibi 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: 24.10.1880 Proper date: 24.10.1880 Description An account of the resource A request to promote Cat. Mullings to Deacon. First reason - the size of the Asiakwa community following recent gains. Second reason - Mullings, 30 years old, West Indian stock, is the first catechist and founder of the church in Asiakwa. His love of money, which in the past had led him to write letters for Ata, has not been a problem for the last two years. He is the best educated among the catechists, and though he has made many mistakes, had worked very successfully on his outstations. In a subscript J. Müller as District Präses advises a more brotherly division of responsibilities between Begoro and Kibi. This would relieve the Kibi missionaries of some of their heavy burden. In another subscript Eisenschmid as General Präses says that this proposal hangs together with the principle that Europeans should be dispensed with as much as possible. Paul Steiner supports the idea that Mullings should be ordained. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..138 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Stations Conference Kibi to the Gold Coast Executive Committee 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: 24.10.1880 Proper date: 24.10.1880 Description An account of the resource Part of this report is published in Heidenbote 1881, pp27ff. To the end of the first paragraph in the printed section about the Akim community being made up of freed slaves is more explicit in the report: Without the king's positivity it would have been impossible to build up a community out of these people. Otherwise there would have been nothing preventing them going back into the heathen town - only in the Christian community could they find freedom. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..147 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Third Quarter of 1880 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: 15.01.1881 Proper date: 15.01.1881 Description An account of the resource The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1881, pp35ff. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..148 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Last Quarter of 1880 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: 28.12.1880 Proper date: 28.12.1880 Description An account of the resource The letter is printed in full in Heidenbote 1881, pp28ff. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..149 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-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource D. Huppenbauer 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: 13.04.1881 Proper date: 13.04.1881 Description An account of the resource There is correspondence about financial administration at Kibi in March-May of this year. It is opened by a Basel Committee letter dated 14 March 1881 (presumably to find in the D-2 series). Folio 41-2 in which the points are made: 1. that the collection of money from the community for a new chapel was not done in a proper way 2. that the Kibi missionaries had done wrong in transgressing a printed rule dated 27 January 1879 that no money was to be lent to private people out of local church funds. The missionaries were to collect the debts as quickly as possible, their own salaries being held security. Point 2 is clarified by this letter. Buck takes full responsibility, since no sums had been lent out for over a year. The money was in fact lent out of the Poor Fund, specifically for Christians left naked by war, converts who in the process of conversion had lost everything and could not marry, people who were being held back from conversion by small debts they owed. All loan were made at small percentage interest, no-one was allowed more than £3, and the Presbyters underwrote every acknowledgement of debt. The debts are repaid slowly, but no-one has failed. He felt this was a proper procedure in view of the numbers of people entering the community who were more or less without possessions. Point 1 is discussed in a long letter by Huppenbauer. It appears that the contribution of the Kibi community to the Chapel-building fund was obtained by accountancy manipulations, the members of the community being themselves unconscious of what was being done. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..207 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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck 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: 28.05.1881 Proper date: 28.05.1881 Description An account of the resource In the recent past the community had lost two adults (including a Presbyter) by death and. 6 children, 4 adults were excluded. In the building of the new chapel the pulpit and altar were built by Buss in Kibi and transported to Kukurantumi. They had difficulty finding a mason, but in the end Buck sent one. One of the first enquirers from Osiem was a young man who was known to Koranteng as a leading, interrupter of street preaching and a leader of a group of young men. His explanation for his changing over was that he had found fetishes and charms were nothing, while 'the ways of Christians are right'. His old companions considered fining him a sheep and some drinks for dishonouring the fetish to whom they had all sworn unchanging loyalty. Koranteng advised him that the problem was Satan being annoyed at having lost him, told him to tell the people to leave Satan to make his own revenge. The idea of fining him was finally dropped. Three more converts have come from Tafo complaining that fetishes mean nothing but trouble and debts. He describes the consecration of the new church at Kukurantumi: 5 missionaries, 3 deacons, 5 catechists, and 2 evangelists were present. There were school pupils from both Kibi and Akropong, both acting as choirs. After the service of consecration in the morning another service was held in the afternoon at which two of the missionaries spoke, followed by 2 deacons, 5 catechists and both evangelists 'with intervention of singings by both the schools'. The occasion inspired a nephew of the chief to come forward as a catechumen after he had been considering the step for a long time. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..217a 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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Koranteng 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: 01.07.1881 Proper date: 01.07.1881 Description An account of the resource The first part of the report is a lament at the lack of local personnel, with acerbic footnotes from J. Müller indicating that the lack is not so severe as depicted. Huppenbauer suggests an Evangelists' School in Kibi - they have 3 young men in mind for this. The later part of the report is mostly about building and travelling difficulties in view of the unusually heavy rains. In a subscript Eisenschmid as General Präses points out that all available personnel had been sent into Akim in previous years. At the end of the current school year there were two graduates from the Seminary available for the Twi district, at the same time Catechist Meyer 'inwardly dead' had left the service of the mission. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..216 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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource D. Huppenbauer's Report for the Second Quarter of 1881 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: 02.02.1882 Proper date: 02.02.1882 Description An account of the resource Station Census: Missionaries: Ramseyers & Dilger. Catechist: Ph. Kwabi until July, then he was in Mpraeso Teachers: Emm. Dako (married), and since July Johannes Koranteng (unmarried). Reporting on the progress of the Christian community (it is not clear whether this is all Kwahu or just Abetifi). Ramseyer raports 6 baptisms - 3 of adults and 3 of children. Equally there have been 3 exclusions, only one of them, James Boaman, has shown penitence and continued to associate with the Christians. Indeed he has come to live on the mission station. There is every hope that he will be re-admitted in course of the next year. The Ramseyer's ex-maid, Salome, was one of the exclusions. All were excluded for 'sins of the flesh'. One man was re-admitted – Thomas Entiamoa – after 18 months of exclusion. Judging by the information here the re-admission process involved interviews about the penitence of the person involved, a period under observation to see what his or her behaviours was now like, and in the case of someone who had publicly attacked the Christians as Entiamoa had done, a public statement of penitence. Kwabi in Mpraeso has been vainly concerned with the building of his house so far, and thus hindered from travelling which will be his main responsibility. However he holds regular morning and evening prayers in Mpraeso, and on Sundays has been preaching in Obomeng, Mpraeso and Aibie. Several youths have gathered themselves around him, however, as catechumens. Ramseyer doubts their motivations until they (the mission staff) have had more time to see how they get on, but one has just brought Ramseyer his collected house fetishes, and destroyed them in his presence. He has reported separately on his journey to Kumasi in September, but his main impressions were that Asante is far weaker than before, and cannot seriously contemplate war; and equally that Kwahu has nothing to fear from Asante, which is a great comfort to the missionaries. The year has been significant for the development of the pre-existing (his phrases imply for several years) contacts with Asante-Akim. After his journey there and Dilger’s, they regard these 2 towns as coming und Abetifi's missionary area - it will be regularly visited, and they hope to send a teacher to live there, as the people have been asking. In Kwahu they have been busy with preaching journeys, and usually have a large and attentive audience. In Abetifi itself they have been house-to-house visiting, and there are individuals who have been touched by what has been said - and Ramseyer says he knows which they are. In Abetifi itself they are troubled by the fact that they no longer have a catechist. The two teachers regularly go out on preaching journeys to the north-east, but they have not altogether the right gifts. Dako is conscientious and zealous, but he lacks character and warm-heartedness for preaching. Koranteng although a lovable man must always be guided in his work. In the Abtifi they are especially happy with the development of the Elder, who has also taken on the position of evangelist. His work as evangelist is sporadic, since he has to do his farm work to support himself, but he has often accompanied Ramseyer (he went with him to Kumasi) and Ramseyer is always very pleased to hear his warm-hearted preaching and arguments drawn from his own experience. They have also been overjoyed by the way that for 2 weeks the Christians and catechumens of Abetifi have voluntarily and without pay been working on the building of the catechist's house at Mpraeso. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Yearly Report for 1881 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: 16.03.1882 Proper date: 16.03.1882 Description An account of the resource Dilger criticises the teaching methods practiced by the local teachers, and his own statement of priorities. The local teachers, as far as he is able to judge, know very little about handling a subject in an exciting and interesting way nor do they understand that for children a subject cannot be treated in details as it should ideally, (it has to be cut down in such a way) as to make it something the children love, and something which they can value. They don't realise you have to make things concrete for children. They regard teaching as pouring information down as funnel in order to make information sausages each day. At the end of the report naming the Abetifi teachers Dilger says that Dako although little gifted is an outstanding teacher, and really does bring the pupils forward. Dilger also comments that parents are still unwilling to send their children to school in Abetifi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XV..262 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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Dilger's Yearly Report on the Boy's 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: 28.02.1881 Proper date: 28.02.1881 Description An account of the resource Announces the various pieces of news which have indicated that there is no danger of war. Inter al a letter from Prince Ansah to him which blames a misunderstanding of the significance of the visit of a recent Asante ambassador to the Governor. He also says, that he was specifically forbidden from accompanying Buck and Huppenbauer on their visit to Kumasi in the early months of 1881. In view of the tolerance they were shown during their visit, a Kumasi mission cannot be far away. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XV..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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer to a Priest (Unnamed) 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: 04.03.1881 Proper date: 04.03.1881 Description An account of the resource Writes that the Amantara delegation of the previous year was from Bompata, asked for a teacher, tried to see the governor via the good officer of the 'King of Accra' who took their money but did not do for them what they had hoped. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XV..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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer to a Priest (Unnamed) 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: 19.02.1881 Date late: 20.02.1881 Proper date: 19.02.1881-20.02.1881 Description An account of the resource Reporting his presence in Aburi and the fact that for several months they had heard in Abetifi rumours that the Asantes were buying up arms and ammunition - he mentions Snyder rifles specifically - but that at the moment when letters come to him from Buhl and Eisenschmid advising their evacuation from Abetifi in view of the likelihood of war Kwahu was peaceful. However in view of the fact that his wife was unable to walk any distance Ramseyer felt that it was his responsibility to take his wife away from the station while they could easily got carriers. Dilger was already at Begoro for a short holiday. He obviously feels that rumours are endemic in Akan society, although he places some credence in the idea that some Kwahu chiefs are keen to restore links with Asante (partly to restore their lost prestige, and partly in order to be again empowered to execute the death penalty). However the 'young veople' comprising 2/3 of the population, are against them. Providing the changeover did not happen after a war, he is quite prepared to see Kwahu come under Asante rule, and does not think it would harm their work. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XV..240 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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer to Basel