341 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: 30.09.1884 Proper date: 30.09.1884 Description An account of the resource A four side letter entitled 'Islam on the Gold Coast' Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.40.V..112 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-01.40 - Ghana 1884: D-01.40.V. - Odumase Title A name given to the resource Weiss to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 25.02.1884 Proper date: 25.02.1884 Description An account of the resource The report is printed in full in Heidenbote 1884, pp41-42. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.II..20 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.II. - Aburi Title A name given to the resource Johannes Müller's Report over the Journey to Salaga Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.03.1884 Proper date: 23.03.1884 Description An account of the resource Müller is the District Praeses (chairman). Proposing the stationing of Basel Mission personnel in Nkonya and other districts. In the first part of the letter Miller argues that there is spare missionary strength on the Gold Coast available for work in new districts. The background to this appears to be a handing over of responsibility in the Akwapim area to local workers, and he also considers it easy to overstaff the Begoro-Kibi and Abetifi stations. The obvious new area for the mission is the trans-Volta Twi-speaking tribes. Not only has their opposition to the Asante overlordship prepared people, Twi has spread as a common language, and their tribulations .have disillusioned them about their fetishes. From Krepe to the neighbourhood of Salaga they have put themselves under the protection of Dente and honour the Sundays. The fetish priest of Dente did not hinder them, so that they have a new area for mission work spreading 100 or more hours into the interior. The Krepe area though and Ewe area, is one where Twi is spoken. It would be necessary to have a linking station in it between Anum and the north, staffed by a local worker. Amfoi is suggested - the people there had already asked David Asante for a teacher. In Nkonya they visited Prapraasi, Ntschumuru, Kogyabi, Antomada, Tapo, Wurupon, and calculate a population of 10,000. The gospel is not completely strange to them because Nkonya people will spend weeks or even months in Larteh, and say that they notice the life, conduct and liturgies of the Christians there. A woman who had lived in Akropong brought them a small present and asked them to set up mission stations like those in Akwapim in Nkonya. In a conference with the chief of Nkonya and his subchiefs (20 Jan 84) the chiefs wanted to know what the contents of the gospel were, and what directions the missionaries needed to give them as to what to do and not do (in reply to which they were directed to remember the situation vis-a--vis the stations in Akwapim). In his preaching connected with this occasion Müller writes that he stressed the blessings which follow from following Christ, and what the Europeans have become through accepting Christianity. The towns visited in Boem were: Gyasekan I & II, Broada, Guamang, Kogye, Worawora. The latter he suggests would be best for a mission station if it were not on the edge of the district. The poverty of the people impressed him - he presumes that this is because they have been cut off from the coast by Akwamu and Anglo. They were given a good welcome, by the fetish priests as well as the people (a fetish – priestess in Broada and the chief-fetishpriest in Gyasekan are specifically cited - the latter's invitations to them to stay with him were very pressing, and in the end they had to accept a gift of cowries food etc. from him). The letter ends with a firm suggestion that Anum be taken over by a European missionary, while David Asante devotes himself to the work further inland, based on Nkonya. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.I..4 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.I. - District Conference Akwapim-Akem Title A name given to the resource Johannes Müller to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 05.05.1884 Proper date: 05.05.1884 Description An account of the resource More detailed information on the journey of exploration to Salaga. He describes the Anum-Boso district as containing 6-7,000 inhabitants - perhaps 10,000 if you include the Ewe speaking villages in the Boao valley, Parema, To and Tonko. While in the late 1860s cotton was the main article of trade, now cotton plantations are rarely to be seen, and palm-oil has taken over its place in commerce. On the journey David Asante was very well looked after by an ex-fetish priest of Boso, now baptised. ‘The Boso community has deep roots in the district. They heard a lot about slave-holding in this district, but slave owners suffer there from the proximity of the Protectorate to which slaves can flee, just as Kwahu slave-holders suffer from the proximity of Anyinam. Nkonya and Buem he thinks, will soon be involved in the palm-oil trade, judging by the fact that they have oil-palms, and the fact that the palm-oil merchants have a settlement not many hours from Kpandu, Nkami. Krakye he reports as very thinly peopled - they reckoned there were only about 25 villages, though there was the difficulty that the people were very withdrawn. Whenever they began a conversation which had to get down to details someone came up and spoke to the Krakye man involved, and after that very little information was to be obtained. In Krakye they were received with a great demonstration of drumming and piping, by the armed men. Krakye itself is not a large village with about 250 round huts and 50 compounds. People say that only notables have huts in Krakye - to possess one is an honour. They grow rice, yams, and a sort of millet. All hens belong to Dente. No cattle. Cowries are worth double what they are on the coast, though English money is also acceptable. The merchants take the opportunity to change money here. The salt trade was not flourishing, since the slave trade was not active, but there was no lack of salt. Everywhere you found groups of sacks full of salt. The Krakye chief would not send boys to the mission to be brought up. They have no trouble preaching in the streets, nor were any attempts made to enforce fetish prohibitions on them. He describes Salaga as 30 minutes long, but for much of the way nothing but a rubbish-heap. The trade was mostly in cloth, most of that of European origin. By the cloth market was a big food market. There were many donkeys, about 30 horses, oxen and sheep on sale. They could only with difficulty get even one drink of milk each day, the butter was inedible. They greeted the chief in a hut with two fine horses on one side. (There is in this report an account of the interior geography as ascertained in Salaga by Müller.) He remarks that the slave family which they were dashed in Krakye on the return journey were Grusis, and they were terrified most of the return journey that they were about to be killed. In Akwapim they found many people of their tribe, and they lost some of their fear when they found their own countrymen in the Christian village at Abokobi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.II..21 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.II. - Aburi Title A name given to the resource Müller 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: 23.07.1884 Proper date: 23.07.1884 Description An account of the resource Reporting a rumour from Kumasi that not only has Kwaku Dua died of small-pox, but Owusu Koko has accused Karikari of being the cause of this and as a result he has been executed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.II..14 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.II. - Aburi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This is an account of an event in Adadentem in January 1883. As they came to the town through the forest they heard an enormous uproar, and when Buck appeared the people immediately ran to him for an opinion on their argument and he had to remind them that he should be sat down, formal greetings exchanged, and palm wine drunk. The question turned out to be whether a young man reaching the age to look after himself, should first make a farm or first build a house. Buck gives the summary of the arguments which he heard when he offered to arbitrate – the case of God giving Adam a farm but no house was cited by one side. He preserved the story apparently as an example of what people in A Africa spend their time doing. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.IV..70 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.IV. - Kjebi-Begoro Title A name given to the resource Exerts from Buck’s Diary 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: 16.05.1884 Proper date: 16.05.1884 Description An account of the resource He travelled Accra-Okurease-Asiemang along a route much used by Kotoku traders. It was difficult to find lodging in Okurease because of the number of people resting the overnight. He had a discussion with a fetish priest in Okurease. En route from Okurease to Asiemang they passed through a small farming village belonging to the Asiamang chief who was destooled and driven on it in the previous year. The people had never heard Christian preaching. The Christians in Asiamang made a good impression. He also visited the Queen mother, an ordinary looking old lady, and when he asked an elder of the town why they had chosen such a person, the elder replied 'So we are more powerful ourselves*. Asiamang looked a notable, if not beautiful town. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.IV..71 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.IV. - Kjebi-Begoro Title A name given to the resource Report of a Journey made by Missionary Marquart in Fante, Kotoku and West 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/. Description An account of the resource It includes the geography all worked out. Following Asante, he entered the western outlying province of Akyease, then isolated from the rest of Akim Abuskwa by Kotoku. The only towns on which he comments in Akim Abuakwa proper were Osenese, ready for mission work, Kade, similar situation, Otumi, a village of Asuum, where there were 7 catechumen, Asuum itself, where the chief seemed favourable, and Tumfa. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.IV..72 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.IV. - Kjebi-Begoro Title A name given to the resource Christaller's Summary of Marquart's report (see No 71) 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: 16.10.1884 Proper date: 16.10.1884 Description An account of the resource Concerning Evangelist Okanta. It has appeared that-Okanta had been dealing in India-rubber. When faced with this he eventually admitted this was true, and accused most of his local colleagues of the same. Pressed he named Sakyi. Marquart also discovers there was trouble between Okanta and the presbyter, one Daniel. The next day in Okorase Marquart met the oldest Aaiamang Christian, Moses, This men complained that over the last two months most of Okanta's duties in the community had lapsed and he had been acting as middleman organising the collection of rubber to despatch not to the Mission Factory but to Merchant Fischer. A young man who had stolen money from him after being engaged in the trade had had to be chased from the area around Okanta's house. He had also told the community not to tell any white man or any of the other local agents of the Mission, what was occurring. While all this testimony was being provided Boakye and James Okae gave the unasked-for information thst in 1882 Okanta had embezzled an amount of church tax, taking it from people baptised only at Christmas, which was not necessary, and then not reporting it. (The matter then got mixed up with the illness of Mrs D. Huppenbauer and some misunerstandings between the missionaries). Marquart uses a strong language when he found his testimony appeared to have been doubted in Akropong. A similar bout of fortright speaking is to be found in Huppenbauer’s comment on the Müller report in doubting the actuality of the response to the Mission reported previously in Asuum and district (Huppenbauer was then resident in Schorndorf). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.IV..64 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.IV. - Kjebi-Begoro Title A name given to the resource Stations Conference Kibi/Begoro 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: 24.10.1884 Proper date: 24.10.1884 Description An account of the resource Okanta in a written reply to the charges claimed to have bought only 12/- India rubber from three Christian women, and claimed that Date had done as much. He denied collecting rubber, and as for forbidding the community to tell stories to white men etc. He claimed he had asked them to stout everything first to him. Ramseyer obviously believes some if not many of the charges to be exaggerated. It was irregular that he had not been formally charged in the presence of Deacon Date. On the other hand things having got to the stage they had he had probably better be dismissed. he had been very rude to Marquart. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.IV..65 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.IV. - Kjebi-Begoro Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Subscript to the Stations Conference (see No 64) 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: 16.10.1884 Proper date: 16.10.1884 Description An account of the resource This includes a request that James Boabea, former Prebyter at Asiakwa should be taken on as an Evangelist. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.IV..66 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.IV. - Kjebi-Begoro Title A name given to the resource Stations Conference, Kibi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.10.1884 Proper date: 23.10.1884 Description An account of the resource Concerns a catechist Ofe who refused a posting to Asiakwa as teacher. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.IV..68-69 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.IV. - Kjebi-Begoro Title A name given to the resource Stations Conference and Subscripts Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 12.03.1885 Proper date: 12.03.1885 Description An account of the resource Nsawam, a new out-station, is seven hours from Aburi, four hours from Nsakye, on the border towards Akyem and on the river Densu. The inhabitants of the village are Akyems who have settled at the extreme edge of Aburi territory with the permission of the Aburi chief. The Nsawam chief attended our school in Akropong for a short while and is a brother of Dompre the well-known general in the war of Asante against Krepi and Anum. He is very happy that we have founded an out-station in Nsawam and has given over the house he is currently building to the Evangelist for the first few months. The whole community was happy at the arrival of the Evangelist and his family. The first baptisms took place on 13th July - six adults with their four children. When I visited this small but pleasant congregation, I felt very happy to be with them and these first Christians made a very promising impression. I was delighted with the work of the Evangelist, too, James Opare. He has had very little schooling and knows relatively little about reading and writing. But he does know enough to teach in his village school. He has his heart in his work and although he earns less now that in his earlier post. He puts all his energy into what he does in Nsawam. I wish we had more like him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.II..23 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.II. - Aburi Title A name given to the resource Extract from F. Ramseyer's Annual Report for the Aburi Station for 1884 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 20.01.1885 Proper date: 20.01.1885 Description An account of the resource Written by David Asante. The Boso community had built a new swish-wall chapel, and this has shamed the Anun community into starting a similar chapel. The Anum community lost 2 members by exclusion, and 1 through death (a child). It gained 5 by Christians coming to live in Anum and 5 from the birth of children. There were five baptisms out of a class of 9. Only one of them was a woman, an ex-fetish priestess. Asante gives a relatively satisfactory picture of the life of the community. Services have been more regularly attended, and the members has exercised a stricter discipline among themselves. The adults excluded were excluded because of adultery, which was promptly reported to him so that appropriate action could be taken. Otherwise married life was conducted in a manner better than he expected; only their ideas of how to bring up children are still rather undeveloped. In Boso there have been 17 adult baptisms, and 17 child baptisms. (6 catechumens lapsed). Preaching has been carried out by Teacher Asiedu in the surrounding villages To, Tonko, Pareman and Dodi. From Pareman there are Catechumens who come regularly to Boso services, and boys who come regularly to the Boso school. Asante himself claims to have travelled for 78 days in the year. 6 of them in the Akwamu villages, the rest in Buem-Nkonya-Salaga-Obooso district. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.VI..98 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Annual Report on the Station Anum for 1884 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: 24.04.1884 Proper date: 24.04.1884 Description An account of the resource The report is mostly printed as appendix to the 1884 Annual Report (pp80ff). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.VI..96 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Asante's Report for the First Quarter 1884 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 14.07.1884 Proper date: 14.07.1884 Description An account of the resource Report on his journey through Salaga and Obooso in the first quarter of the year. This appears to be the manuscript behind the second part of the Christaller/Asante typescript in the library (see D.132 in the so called "Betriebsdokumentation) - or at least to be closely related to it, since many phrases occur in both. Although there are details (including the exact passage of dates) which occur in the Christaller version only. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.VI..97 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Asante's Report for the Second Quarter 1884 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: 04.03.1885 Proper date: 04.03.1885 Description An account of the resource Written by Dilger. Personnel on the station: Dilger and his wife Johannes Tschopp Catechist S. Boateng Catechist W. Mensa Evangelist P. Tiko Mpraseo: Catechist Kwabi Bepong: Catechist N. Afwireng On Good Friday of 1884 Dilger and his wife believed their child had died - but it recovered again on the Saturday. He writes that the sympathy shown for him in this situation by the community increased his love for the people. One Samuel Drekunu, a member of the community, died during the year. He had been in the school - after he left the school Dilger took him on as a house-servant, though he had known him to tell lies in the school. It turned out he also stole, and when Dilger proposed to punish him for this he left his service and went to live in the town. When he fell ill he was brought back on the station. Dilger seems to have treated this as mainly a case of mental illness in which the key thing was to get him to confess his crimes. There have been two exclusions due to adultery in the year - one of the people involved had to be banned from coming onto the station. But Dilger feels that the real root of all the problems is pride - some treat the missionary like a ball to play with. There is also a lack of hunger for the word - evidenced by the poor attendance of morning and evening prayers. There is superficiality, apathy, grossness. There is a slowness to move onto the station also. He returns to the work theme - one reason for the small attendance at Sunday services is the proportion of adult Christians who are away from the station on journeys lasting several months. To earn money people are going to Akwapim to carry palm oil, or to Salaga to carry on trade. Nevertheless Dilger calculates that there are 45 adults on the station. In the course of the year 3 have completed houses on the station, and 10 more are involved in building their houses. And approximately 100 Marks have been paid in freewill offerings, besides 70 Marks which have been paid as church tax. There were ten baptisms in the course of the year. Several of these people give him great joy by theor quiet modest bearing. Outstations - Mpraeso: the five newly baptised include a girl of about 18 years. Obo: an attempt to settle Catechist Afwireng there was frustrated by his illness, apparently because of an attempt to poison him. Preaching journeys are bearing fruit - not only were 5 baptised in Bepong, there are 6 catechumens in Nkwatia, one of whom suffered the death of a child and resisted the imputations of his heathen townsmen by pointing out that a fetish priest had lost a child not long before. (A subscript from Ramseyer doubts the idea that Afwireng was poisoned - there are so many rumours, and in any case 'poisoning' in many peoples' minds is a result of amulets, etc. Afwireng was unhappy about the high cost of food and firewood before he fell ill, and was never happy there, but he is not enough of a man to return, and has been allowed to settle in the little village of Bepong only an hour from Mpraeso). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..93 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report on the Station Abetifi for 1884 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 17.03.1885 Proper date: 17.03.1885 Description An account of the resource Written by Dilger. At the beginning of the year a heathen boy died – although his quiet modest ways had impressed the missionaries - his heathen relatives asked the fetish the cause of his death, which was attributed to his being at school. At which there was an exodus of heathen schoolboys which however was checked and reversed after the missionaries had argued with them. At the inspection of the school by Müller in March it was decided that the 4th class should no longer receive monetary support, nor should any class receive clothes more than once in the year. The result was a revolt which expressed itself in a breakdown of relations between the housefather in the school and the pupils - they refused to work for their lesson, in handwork they (deliberately) set out to annoy him by their laziness, and if he punished nay of them they simply ran away. The 3 Kwahu pupils from the middle school in Kibi created more trouble on their return by claiming there was no point in learning, since it got you nowhere (the language suggests that the closure was permanent or at least that there was no immediate prospect of a reopening). Many of the pupils left the Abetifi school, and Dilger straight away closed it. However they returned to school within two days of Dilger's threatening to make them pay back the money they had received to pay for their board. In the last year some of these schoolboys were baptised - and some have come forward into the catechumenate since the beginning of 1885. The objective of the reduction of payments etc. was to pave the way for the starting of free schools. There are 5-6 pupils awaiting the opening of a free school in Bepong; the Obo school of course had to be closed; there is also a free school now in Abetifi itself with 14 pupils at the end of the year. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..94 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report of the Boarding School for 1884 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: 08.03.1884 Proper date: 08.03.1884 Description An account of the resource Giving the background to the decision about financial support etc. The idea was that a free school elsewhere in Kwahu (Obo was favoured unanimously, Ramseyer pointing out that a teacher’s presence would support the boys who had once registered as catechumens) could 'feed' the Abetifi boarding school. Hence the withdrawal of money support was from the first class in the boarding school. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..78 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Station's Conference Protocoll at the Time of Müller's School Inspection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 17.03.1884 Proper date: 17.03.1884 Description An account of the resource The first stop on the journey was Akwasiho at the foot of the scarp near Obo - where the chief offered to board Dilger and Kwabi in his owe house, but Dilger refused on the grounds that it was a hospital for lepers. Shortly before they entered Praso the next day they met men carrying a corpse in a basket (back to his home town presumably) and in Praso they met two women who had tended the dead man. These at first were afraid to stay in Praso because of a fear of the dead man's ghost, and also because they feared that if the missionary party fished in the Pra the fetish would kill them. However Dilger and his companions seem to have argued them out of this idea quite easily. They were involved in. preparing food for them. Dilger's party made a sort of bridge for themselves over the Pra. Next day to Asuboa (a theme common to these days is that it was raining, and Dilger arrived at night well ahead of the carriers and to avoid sitting in his wet clothes had to borrow a cloth either from the catechist or from the locals until his dry clothes arrived). At Asuboa they received a welcome from many people in the form of gifts of feed. Dilger preached on the text 'I am the way' and used the metaphor of the bad paths which he had had to walk along en route to Asuboa. In Bompata a friendly welcome, ‘even’ from the fetish priest. In reply to Dilger's questions about the stationing of a catechist, the chief replied that when a teacher arrived they would build him a house provided the other towns took their part; and if they moved to Amantra they would take him with them. (It is not clear whether the latter point emerged spontaneously or in reply to a question of Dilger). Dilger writes that he feels they should certainly not choose Bompeta for a mission station. They had intended to travel via Wankyi to Joaso but were visited by three Kwahus who had been trying to get a relative of theirs released from the block in Adompe. This man had been on a journey, and when he did not return a search was instituted by his family which led to his being found in the block in this town. Dilger consented to intervene, on the condition that the 3 Kwahus stayed outside the town. Inside Adompe he found an enraged populace; it is not clear what hold he had over them but the man was released next day. It partly seems a matter of his posing: he writes about trying to make the man responsible for the imprisonment fearful, and after an initial investigation he left the palavar to his catechist and carriers and walked around the town quietly smoking. It also seems however, that the townspeople were shocked that because of this panyarrying he refused to preach there. He also had the advantage that one of his carriers recognised the man who had had the Kwahu imprisoned as someone who had stolen something from him when they were both travelling in Fante. Part of the settlement was that Dilger promised to try to ensure that the Kwahu who was in debt with the Adompe man involved did in fact pay the debt. (During an interval in these affairs he preached in Kurofa) Next day via Wankyi to Joaso (presumably - spelt Guaso here). This is three villages in fact, one of them on the Obogu road; one of theta on the Konongo road. They spent the night in the former, where the chief remarked that when the missionaries had a station in Asante Akim, everyone would be free to believe what he wanted. Dilger remarked in return that they would not force people to become Christians, and that history showed that thousands of people who felt as he felt found that they were persuaded by God without their own will acting - God himself had converted them. Next day they went to Obogu where, discussing the question of a Basel Mission station, the chief said that he would have nothing to do with co-operation with Asante Akim. The catechist from Kibi could come and preach in his town. Next day to Konongo, where they did not receive a warm welcome, and the king seeks to have acted more ceremoniously and more formally towards them. The following day they visited 3 of the 25 Odumase villages (one of them being the residence of the Odumase chief), and then on to Patriensa (the only mention of Asante so far is the statement that Konongo was the frontier town and the king took some of his ceremonial from what he must have seen in Kumasi). Patriensa used to be built on three hills - now they have gathered together into a very pretty village on one hill. The following day again they travelled via Obima and Kyekyebiase to Dwiransa. There is some new material on Kumawu - he tried collecting stories as the significance of the name, and heard the story about the Kum tree which died; also that when Kumase was built Kumaswu was the model, but thereafter had to change its name; also that when God was distributing people in the forest with axes the man he put down in Kumawu broke his axe, and so the town is really called 'the broken axe' (Kuma-abu). They marched from Kumawu to Agogo in one days passing only small hamlets, and hunter's houses. In the second part of the march apparently most of the inhabitants of such settlements turned out not to be able to speak twi, being 'donkos’. In Agogo they had to wait a long time to meet the Agogohene - he was making fetish. Dilger remarks on meeting his fine silk cloth, and much gold on the fingers. Dilger here preached in English, Kwabi translating into Twi (He adds that when he is tired and has a catechist with him who is familiar with English and Twi, he prefers to preach in English as it is less demanding to do so.). The Agogohene appears to have asked him to preach on one of the texts which he had used in Kumawu. Returning from Agogo they marched direct to Abene taking five hours the first days after which they had to sleep in the forest, and 10 hours the next. He was, he remarks, glad to be back in his homeland. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..85 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-01.41 - Ghana 1884: D-01.41.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Dilger's Report of a Journey through Obogu Konogo to Agogo