341 20 77903 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.III. 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 Title A name given to the resource Akropong 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 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 19.04.1884 Proper date: 19.04.1884 Description An account of the resource Reports his safe homecoming from the Salaga journey after having had no illness on the way. He found Attebubu 8 days journey from Abetifi, but only 3 days from Asante Mampong, which like Nsuta is only 1 ½ days from Kumawu. These towns having broken away from Kumasi, are now open to mission work. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..86 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 Ramseyer to Basel (from Aburi) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 21.04.1884 Proper date: 21.04.1884 Description An account of the resource Much of this report is printed as appendix to the 1885 Annual Report Jahresbericht (pp65f part 1). In a subscript to the Manuscript Ramseyer reports that this is the same old Abraham in Mpraeso about whom he has written: he feels sure that he is lame because of a stroke. Additional material which appears in the manuscripts: The old man's parents though Akwapims had moved to Mpraeso before he was born. Amankwa's successor was Bowi and he was only taken into the service of Adow of Abetifi after the latter had consulted with Bowi. The old man's day-name was Kwasi. Dilger remarks that Kwabi is outstanding in his knowledge of thousands of proverbs and pointed phrases which are the common usage in Twi, and he knows how to use them in explanation and argument. It was in this way that he managed to convey to the old man the Christian message. Abraham was the name usually given to the oldest or first catechumen in a place. Dilger remarks that the love of the world won away from the church the people baptised before him in Mpraeso. So he really is the foundation of the Mpraeso church. Dilger dares to think it is a good foundation and says they can point him out to the candidates and say that his example of faith and the life of faith is a good one. As to his inner life Dilger cannot say, since the old man really has no opportunity to lay it open, but every time Dilger goes to Mpraeso, he says, he finds his face more beautiful, more clear, and more striking. Dilger took a difficult palaver to him, and he sorted it out easily (there were questions of truthfulness and untruthfulness of statements involved). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..87 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 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: 07.05.1884 Date late: 12.05.1884 Proper date: 07.05.1884-12.05.1884 Description An account of the resource (Both of these officials are called Müller – the Praeses Johannes Müller and the School Inspector Johann Michael Müller) An applicaticn for a teacher for Kwahu - it is not clear whether for Abetifi or Obo - to open a 'free school', and for another man, teacher or evangelist (Dilger thinks a teacher since the Akim people want a school) to accompany Catechist Afwireng into Asante Akim, since it will be a very lonely and arduous post. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..79 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 and Ramseyer to the District Prases and District School Inspector Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 02.08.1884 Proper date: 02.08.1884 Description An account of the resource Dilger writes in an appendix that he had encouraged Mensah to go on this expedition (No. 88a). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..88 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 Teacher Mensah's Report of a Preaching Journey in Asante Akim and Agogo 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..89 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 Teacher Boateng's Report on the Mission Work in Kwahu 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: 22.08.1884 Proper date: 22.08.1884 Description An account of the resource Dilger says he asked Bonteng to write himself partly (see No. 89) because he is too hurt to write himself. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..90 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 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: 09.08.1884 Proper date: 09.08.1884 Description An account of the resource Part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1885 Annual Report p66. There is some additional material however. He first went to Bepong a little over a year ago and was surprised by the exceptional attentiveness of the people. Following this he encouraged Beko to visit there regularly. When he visited the place for his first long conversation with Ntim, two of the man's household were off in Accra buying merchandise. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..91 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 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: 23.08.1884 Proper date: 23.08.1884 Description An account of the resource Report over the stationing of Catechist Afwireng in Obo. Apparently land still had not been purchased in Obo. When introducing Afwireng to the Obo chief the question was asked (on the chief's side) what was to happen if a slave became a Christian? Did that mean he must be emancipated? Dilger's reply was that he should stay in his master's household, but be must not be expected to perform heathen rites; also if he were a slave because of debt and the debts were cleared he should of course be released. Two of the old group of catechumens put themselves in immediate touch with the new catechist. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..92 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 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: 29.10.1884 Proper date: 29.10.1884 Description An account of the resource This is an annex to a report in English from Ph. Kwabi over his 7 week absence from Mpraeso in connection with an attempt to conciliate in a dispute between the Agogos and the Asante Akims which seemed on the point of breaking out into war - in fact Kwabi's language suggests that there were brawls during the negotiation sessions though these never escalated into the use of firearms. The dispute was over land at Fwerem, also over the question of whom was to serve. Mention is also made of the fact that Agogo served the Asantehene though in the course of the negotiations, the Agogohene proposed to try to get under British protection also. Kwabi's report ismostly taken up with accounts of unsuccessful arbitration sessions. There seems to be in it a little doubt about the political geography of Asante Akim. Oda Kwa is described as the chief of Bompata and the leader, but Kwaku Emu at Dwansa is described as the Head Chief of Asante Akim, giving much trouble through his ambition and hautiness. The most important point is probably that the Agogohene sent messengers to Dilger to come and settle the dispute, and he directed Kwabi to go instead. Kwabi was accompanied by 3 Christians of Mpraeso and two from Abetifi. Two of these he name's, Johannes Atta and Moses Ano. This deputation seems to have been accompanied by one from the Abetifi chief. It almost looks as if Kwabi was regarded as an emissary of his, for he is charged with taking an account of the negotiations back to the Abetifi chief. The Agogo chief was also in contact with Kumawu, Obo, and Aduaroa, at least in his search for men to support him. Two further points - the chief of Bompata scoffed at the advice he bad had from the Governor to keep the peace and cited a recent case where there had been fighting at Koromantine and the Government had only fined them £100.' Also Kwabi slept at Teteabo on the first night out of Abetifi after an 11 hour march. Next day he could not walk, but on applying to the Agogo chief he was sent hammock-carriers. Dilger writes about this episode firstly that it shows the character of the Asante Akims in the true light. Dilger felt that he could not leave his family and the station in a situation of war-likelihood. Kwabi however, has a good reputaticn in Asante Akim and Agogo, and was in fact dashed 18 dollars by the Agogo chief and elders who he left - if he had stayed right to the end of the crisis he would have got more, but he was called back by the Obo king. Nevertheless he is probably most responsible (after God) for the peaceful outcome of the crisis. Sumearising the crisis Dilger writes that the Afwirem chief drank fetish to serve Asante Akim, because he had suffered much trouble from the lack of justice he was receiving in Agogo. Since this was likely to lead to war the Asante Akims took the initiative. Dilger hears that they had sworn to raze Agogo to the ground. If Kwabi and the Abetifi Christians had not been there to force a public discussion of the case between the two parties war would have broken out straight away. Involved was the fact that since the Bompata people have been in Bompata, their land at Amantra has been regarded as under the Agogohene, so this was an opportunity for them to take up this question too - Dilger’s opinion is that the Bompata people want to return to Amantra, and that the rest of the Asante Akims would be content to see them go. While Kwabi was in Agogo he preached twice daily to great concourse of children – although the king was opposed to this at the beginning. He is not so much in favour that he has applied to be sent a teacher. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..81 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 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: 25.11.1884 Proper date: 25.11.1884 Description An account of the resource Another annex to Kwabi’s report. This is written from Aburi - Ramseyer is grieved that Dilger does not write to him as his superior, and to find out about the Agogo expedition. He (Ramseyer) was forced to write direct to Kwabi and enquire why he has left his station for so long. Part of his anxiety was on account of rumours he heard in Aburi that Kwabi was heavily involved in trade, although Ramseyer is pleased to report that this is calumny. Ramseyer’s letter adds nothing to one's knowledge of the conflict itself, only to the administrative side of the mission’s reactions. He says Kwabi has a gift for settling such matters, but he should never have taken money from the Agogo people. This suggests to them that he has been an arbitrator (they do not understand the concept of paying for time expended) whereas the missionaries are supposed to steer clear of politics. They may however, settle disputes. Ramseyer wishes he had preached in the surrounding villages and that the acceptance of the money has formalised his position. Ramseyer has in fact once before (in 1882) made him return money received from the Kwahu chiefs for writing a letter on their behalf. Ramseyer also says he thinks Dilger’s judgement that there was danger for the Abetifi station far-fetched - Agogo is a town of 3000 and whatever had happened to it could not have represented much danger for Abetifi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..82 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 Ramseyer to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 21.10.1884 Proper date: 21.10.1884 Description An account of the resource Requests £29 to cover the expenses of his journey to Salaga - including £ 25 for carriers. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..83 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 Ramseyer to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 12.11.1884 Proper date: 12.11.1884 Description An account of the resource Reporting a semi-formal request from the Agogo king for a teacher. He remarks that the Agogos, like the Kwahu and Asante have drunk fetish that now they serve the white man. Ramseyer adds a subscript that until there is certain peace between the Asante Akims and Agogo no teacher should be sent. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.41.V..84 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 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: 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