335 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: 10.05.1881 Proper date: 10.05.1881 Description An account of the resource Report of a visit to Akim with some Akropong schoolboys. It is mainly concerned with the consecration of the church in Kukurantumi; but after that he journeyed further into Akim, and came to Fankyeneko and Begoro. The Begoro people did not leave the town voluntarily on account of fearing that anyone who actually went away would fall under suspicion of having committed the murder. Also that on Good Friday the chief attended service in the church, and was one of the first to come to the place where street preaching was to be held later in the day. Schmid remarks that the Begoro audience was notably attentive - there were few interruptions. Schmid has the jungle beginning after Ahabante. He describes this as involving a thick 'under-wood' of 25'-30' height through which it is very difficult to force a way, but now and again has been cut down and burnt for farms. The Akims do not touch the tall trees, ever to the extent of not artificially making a tree-trunk bridge, then they take benefit from such bridges once they have been made by a storm. Describing the arrival of the groups to celebrate the consecration of the Kukurantumi Chapel Schmid notes that some came singing. One of the Begoro groups was led by a man with a large flag. The Kibi school pupils were singing in 4 parts, and so were the Akropong middle school boys. The collection was 330 Marks, of which the Kukurantumi chief contributed 2 Marks. Commenting on Kibi he writes that the Christian village is 5 minutes away from the old town. This is depopulated - following the imprisonment of Ata the emancipation of slaves has occurred one large scale and the former inhabitants have scattered themselves in farming villages having lost their support. The 'king's palace' of an earlier resort was a 2-storey stone house - not yet completed - since work on it was abandoned the staircases has already collapsed. He is very rude about the inhabitants remaining in Kibi. They are the ex-servants of the ring and live a life of laziness unrivalled in Akim. It is impossible to held a serious conversation with them, warnings are met with derision, and when they lack something they steal it with astounding effrontery. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XII..193 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.XII. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Schmid's Report on a Journey through Akim 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: 24.11.1881 Proper date: 24.11.1881 Description An account of the resource Report of a journey on the Volta river between Akuse and Ada on the ship “Pioneer”. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.VIII..128 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.VIII. - Odumase Title A name given to the resource Kopp to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 07.02.1881 Proper date: 07.02.1881 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..205 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: 26.02.1881 Proper date: 26.02.1881 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..213 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/. 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: 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: 01.04.1881 Proper date: 01.04.1881 Description An account of the resource Disciplinary Proceedings over the months April-Juli 1881 over Catechist Sakyi It is not clear from where the investigation started, except that it cannot have been from Begoro, since Mohr writes strongly in defence of Sakyi. Comparatively little is added to the earlier report from Mohr about Sakyi (No 1880/156 above) except that there had apparently been some occasions of 'irregular' behaviour between him and his wife before they were married. His first major success in trading was in ivory, and this followed in train on his being refused permission to go to Salaga with Buss after he had got together resources for the journey. He was charged too with receiving money to write letters or speak for people, but as far as Mohr could see they boiled down to very few occasions. One was his speaking for the refuges from Obo before the court of the Abetifi chief when Missionary Werner knew about the payment. He refused to take £1 from another old man who was in difficulties establishing his right to some ivory, although he later found that the man had paid 1 dollar to the Christians. He had received money on several occasions, especially in Kibi writing letters to the government. Mohr reports that he plead very vehemently against being dismissed as he recognised he deserved, since he had determined to serve the mission for the rest of his life. And Mohr himself reports that he was an exemplary catechist. To this is added (b) opinions from the senior figures in the mission on the Coast - Müller who seems to have taken an active part in the investigations. He reports that he can find nothing out about the report that Sakyi was an agent for a merchant in Accra. Also he has found in an old letter of Ramseyers the report that Sakyi had dealt in traditional medicine, and indeed "Old Anokwa” who had once been with Buss and deals in traditional medicine was recently in Begoro, but Müller could not find out what his business was. The balance of opinions it in favour of keeping Sakyi in his work in view of Mohr's good reports, but insisting on a stringent standard of conduct Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIV..227 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.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Report by Mohr after an Investigation of the Facts in Discussion with Sakyi, 21-22 March 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: 10.01.1882 Date late: 14.01.1882 Proper date: 10.01.1882-14.01.1882 Description An account of the resource He reports a 22-house Christian village in Kibi and 14 house-village in Kukurantumi. Of the other Christian centres he reports changes in Tumfa where a catechist's house has been built, Asiamang and Apedwa where a house was in the process of being built. Buck spent most of the year on furlough for his health, Missionary Burckhardt spent some months in Kibi, but was then switched with Munz from Begoro. Huppenbauer married at the end of the year. Date was posted from Abomosu to Kibi as Buck left, and during the year Anoba was ordained deacon and transferred from Kibi to Abomosu. At the time of Buss' death he was working on the 2-storey Kibi mission house. During the year the 2-storey house was completed its latter stages by Huppenbauer and Munz. It was a bad year for sickness among both local people and missionaries. At one time 7 people died in 6 days in Apedwa and at the same time 6 died in Apapam, while Date was finding 1 or 2 deaths in each of a string of little villages which he passed through. The missionaries suffered from many fevers, and were without Kissinger Water the whole year, Census - an increase in the total community of the district to 703, after 52 baptisms, 44 of them adults. Huppenbauer discusses in generalities the point that this is a much smaller rate of increase than in the preceding year, but argues for himself that he knows that this is not just a matter of sowing and letting the seed grow of itself, also cites a son of Ata saying that every time they preach a corn falls onto the gold-scales and sooner or later they must register this. Discussing geographical tactics Huppenbauer writes as if torn between the problem of devoting adequate time to the existing community, and responding to the promising developments characteristic of West Akim. In Osanase an ex-pupil of the school has built a temporary chapel and a house for a catechist. Two paragraphs appear to complain about new financial regulations. The school has suffered a palpable blow through the imposition of school-tax, and he wishes that introduction of 2/3 church tax had been done after a Synod. Cash is hard to come by in Akim, and many of the community had been involved in the year in building of e.g. catechist-houses, which in other areas had been put up with Mission money (Eisenschmid adds the footnote that in Akwapim it had been sufficient to call the presbyters together and explain the situation to them). Kibi - 34 baptisms of heathen, and 4 of Christian children; a complete increase of 44 led to a community total of 268. The previous year's point about service attendance and evangelism is repeated: Kibi is without doubt the furthest ahead of all the district communities. Date had challenged the community so much about what complacency there was that two members had refused to attend services at which he preached and eventually had to be excluded. A happy aspect of the situation, however, is the way in which the excluded, after a brief time in the heathen town, have associated themselves once more with the Salem, and even in this year of chapel-building have done so, working like full members of the community thereon. There has been no serious case of conflict between members of the community - a major step forward compared with past years. Household and married life leaves much to be desired, but this is not to be wondered at in view of the patterns of family life from which the Christians have come. Relations between Christians and heathen have been good - the Christians are respected by the heathen, and indeed compared with the broken-down houses, heaps of rubbish, and unchecked grass of Kibi itself the Salem presents an impressive spectacle. There is a girls' school which has been in existence for over a year and has 21 pupils. Kukurantumi - new chapel consecrated on Palm Sunday, 9 baptisms, among them the nephew and heir of the first chief of Kukurantumi. Tafo and Osiem are no longer opposed to proselytising but both want a teacher, and it is proposed to post Ewi to one of them as a permanent move. Asiakwa - no baptisms - the catechumen group was attending instructions too irregularly for that. A greater emphasis on stability is no bad thing there, however, since the community is largely made up of young people. The school has been severely damaged by the school-tax question. Abomosu and associated places - Abomosu has had a troubled year in which Presbyter Abraham has had to be replaced by Presbyter Timothy. A key problem has been the removal of Date and his late substitution by Anoba - the Christians had to suffer a lot of derision from the heathen when their teacher was removed. Huppenbauer specifically says he does not want to go into details. It is a wonder that any community in Akim can survive unsupervised for so long. Asunafo remained insulated from all this, going forward quietly the Christians now mostly living in fine houses on mission land. Tumfa, mostly composed of young people, is still exhibiting the weakness of character of Teacher Okanta. Tumfa could be developed as a centre for a travelling preacher. Banso and Akim-Akropong are both within easy reach, and the mission land there is in a fine position. Kwabeng - the people show so little desire for an increase in their grasp of the gospel that they are all suspended from taking communion. Huppenbauer adds that it is a striking characteristic of the situation in Akim that where the main business is gold-digging, the people have little interest in Christianity. Apapam makes a good impressions. Catechist Odee works well and 'on the whole it is true that where we have true and capable people as catechists the state of the community is also satisfactory'. Apweda -street preaching is now possible without the bitter opposition of the heathen. Of the 5 catechumens 2 were baptised, the rest being absent too much. A house is being built for the catechist - this will help the Kibi Christian Joshua Adai who so far has been paying the catechist's rent. Asiamang - 4 catechumen, though the missionaries had expected more. People come in great numbers to street-preaching but converts are scarce (There is a Wesleyan group in the town who want supervision). A footnote from Eisenschmid puts the Wesleyan request as coming from Abase, however. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource D. Huppenbauer's Report for the Year 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: 27.12.1881 Proper date: 27.12.1881 Description An account of the resource 5 ex-pupils of the school entered the Middle School at the beginning of the school year, while 5 more entered the teacher's seminary. Three of the latter have already come away - they say on account of the many blows they had received. Huppenbauer appears not to discount this altogether. In the first half of the year there were 35 pupils in the school, and in the second half 43. New pupils were only taken into class I if they came from West Akim and Obomosu. From other outstations they came with enough grounding to enter a higher class. They are economising by reducing the amounts paid out to provide food for each boy each month - the sum has already been reduced by 3d, if it were reduced by 5d they would save £10 p.a. The problem is that it is so difficult to get money out of parents or relatives for schooling. The situation is going to make for problems especially when the boys arrive in the Middle School. Most of the relatives are heathen, so where will they get money for payment? Two of the new pupils in the Middle School have had £1 of support from a Christian uncle, but then only after in one case Huppenbauer himself had contributed 15/-. In the other case the uncle asked that if he was going to pay for his nephew's schooling the mission should recognise nephew inheritance in this case. The outcome looks as if it will be matter of Akim schoolboys, attending the Teacher's Seminary, where no payment is required, but this is a serious matter as it would mean that no native Akim's became catechists. He regrets Anoba's leaving the school, and describes him in glowing terms as having loved the boys and gained their trust 'as no European could have done'. There is a subscript from J. Müller as District Inspector of schools in which he defends what had happened to the three Akims in the Teacher Seminar. They had written two letters between them. One from one Thomas Agyei, explained that he wanted to become a carpenter. The other jointly from John Wusu and Robert Nkoroma complained of hard handling by teacher Medegbo, but they ran away like thieves in the night, and the principal believes the real trouble was their 'weak gifts', and knowledge in the face of the demands made on them. Müller is philosophical about the loss-rate among Akims, they do: not take to an orderly life, very few have become satisfactory mission employees, another (Teacher Oware) has just left mission employment. It appears too that teacher Botwe had recently 'fallen' and had lost his job in the school. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..222 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 Annual Report on Schools in the Kibi District 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: 31.12.1881 Proper date: 31.12.1881 Description An account of the resource He expresses himself as worried by the great promotion to being pastor of the Kibi congregation with its many responsibilities, including the building work required. He seems to have a directing role. He reports opposition to the conversion of slave families, one from Tumfa and one from Apedwa, the slaves involved being related, however. In both cases a letter from Date threatening Government action succeeded in overcoming the opposition. In the Tumfa case the master was called Odoe. The slave was stripped of the property when caught on his way to Kibi: 9 dollars gold dust (Date gives the sterling equivalent £2), 3 cloths of his own and two of his wives seen into one long cloth 'as is our custom', 5 mats, 3 fowls, 1 axe, and one of his two young children. All this property was apparently reclaimed after Date's letter. The new Kibi catechumens seem to have come mostly individually, but one group of 12 came forward. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..224 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 Date's Annual 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: 13.01.1882 Proper date: 13.01.1882 Description An account of the resource Reporting on health he writes that a couple from Nta had suffered from 'Gyato', a local disease. 2 members were excluded in the year, two suspended. He is doing street preaching in Kukurantumi once a month, and only once travelled to Tafo/Osiem or the Juaben villages (he makes no report on Ewi's work). However he usually visits the town on the afternoons when the townspeople are usually to be found talking under the shade tree. Among the new baptisms was a nephew of the chief and the mother of the present chief, the oldest members of the royal family. At one stage the chief came to take her back into the town since they could not do without her knowledge of custom. Koranteng remonstrated that he would not allow them to interfere with the church as Ata had, and then called the woman herself who said she had become a Christian of her own free will to escape the customs 'in which I had no rest and peace', and refused to go with them. 3 adults and 4 children were baptised froth Tafo/Osiem - a 5th man had to be thrown out of the class because he relapsed into his normal crime of theft, though begging to be allowed to continue a catechumen. Mmase now numbers one man, his sister and their three children. The husband of the sister has 'fallen'. Morale was low among the local heathens early in the year when the chief fetish priests at Osiem and Kukurantumi both died. In August a new priest of Obo-Kukurantumi was selected, however. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..225 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's Annual 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: 31.12.1881 Proper date: 31.12.1881 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..226 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 Mulling's Annual 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: 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: 11.07.1881 Proper date: 11.07.1881 Description An account of the resource He describes his career in Akim, and the contrast between what it was like in 1869, and the situation as he was writing. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..218 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 Date'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: 12.10.1881 Proper date: 12.10.1881 Description An account of the resource The report is printed almost in its entirety in Heidenbote 1882, pp.11ff. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource D. Huppenbauer's Report for the Third 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: November 1881 Proper date: November 1881 Description An account of the resource A general report of his travels in the 3rd quarter of the year, the first of which had taken place while he was still a Begoro missionary. He stresses the usefulness of visiting small villages where you can meet people as individuals and talk to them. He mentions visiting a little village Akankese in the Begoro area, for example, and 'several' small farming villages around Anyipam, including one of 4 houses and 30 inhabitants built by 'Asantes'. In describing a visit to Asuum he notes that be had been led to believe that Asuum was South-West of Bomso, but it is in fact in the West of that place. South-West of Asuum is Otumi (2 hours), and 1 hour west of Otumi is Twea. From Twea a path goes through Kade to the coast, which after it has that the main route through Asuum and Obogu branches again towards Kwahu. In the Asuum area the gospel is well-known, and so are Buck and Date. In Bomso several young men were eager to be taught to read to be able the Word of God, and took the opportunity of Munz' visit to get some of his attendants to teach them the Lord's Prayer and the 10 Commandments. Asuum he describes as a town of money and trade. In Abompe he went to see the chief Dompre, who lay on his death-bed. When he woke up Munz talked to him about the nothingness of fetishes. It turned out that Dompre had been taught 'by Sissi' (Süss) in the school at Akropong. On his way back to Kibi from Kade Munz found that the Berem plains were well populated by people living in small farming villages. They live rather isolated. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.33.XIII..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-01.33 - Ghana 1881: D-01.33.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Munz 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: 28.02.1881 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)