350 20 77825 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.50.II. 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-01.50 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource Christiansborg 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-01.50.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-01.50 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource Abokobi 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-01.50.IV. 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-01.50 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource Agona 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-01.50.V. 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-01.50 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource District Conference Ga-Adangme 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-01.50.VI. 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-01.50 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource Odumase 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-01.50.VII. 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-01.50 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource Ada 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-01.51.I. 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource District Conference Akwapim-Akem 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-01.51.II. 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.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-01.51 - Ghana 1889 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.IV. 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889 Title A name given to the resource 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: 17.02.1890 Proper date: 17.02.1890 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..102 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report für the Year 1889 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.01.1890 Proper date: 29.01.1890 Description An account of the resource In Anum a cistern and a goat-stall are listed as mission buildings. Building is going in on most of the outstations, and in Anum the mission house has been held up by a four month absence of Brethren Lieb with yellow fever. There are 24 houses in the Anum Christian quarter. Müller notes that the people mostly go to Clerk with their problems - they look on the missionaries as strangers rather - he compares this sorrowfully with the Pauline situation, but notes that St Paul never had to build anything or maintain his own household (They studied St Paul's missionary situation in their second half yearly conference of catechists etc. However, Müller remarks, unfortunately, this was followed by a request from the catechists and teachers that they should be allowed regular periods of rest in Akwapim, and if it should be the expected thing that they return to Akwapim. Müller seems not to have had much difficulty dissuading them from these ideas.) Reporting on the work in Nkonya Müller says that with such an industrious farming people you have to choose your times for preaching cleverly if you are to have any hearers - just as you have to in Europe - otherwise they are all out in their fields. The major issue is fetishes, however - speaking as oracles, or with the use of a proverb, they can bring chiefs to ruin. And Hall discovered that, though he usually has good and attentive congregations, on a certain day in Wurupong the people ran away when he rang his bell, and an acquaintance reckoned him into his hut and told him that this was the day for offering to Sia, and no-one must make a noise - no bells were to be rung and no preaching was allowed. Amfoi is a disappointment the only help given in building the house which the people promised to build themselves was the work of 5 youths. Müller analyses the difficulty as partly that a part of the people are quite given up to the traditional religion, and partly that they have to build for themselves and work hard in agriculture in an area that is not very fruitful. No children have been given for the school. In Vakpo children are coming into the school, but the elders do not believe the possibility of a new birth for themselves. On difficulty in this whole area is that liquor is now penetrating from the German settlements, e.g. via Kpando and Amfoi. 'An Anum Christian has recently remarked that without hard liquor you cannot settle anything with an Nkonya chief'. In Tsate though the community and school are increasing, the chief of the village and a fetish priest lapsed from the catechumenate - the people in this community are many of them from Kaira and Tudome. Kpaleme has increased by 3 elderly converts. The local people are rather hostile. In Kpalime and Tsate they are having to use ordinary household receptacles for Communion. Boso has increased by 3 adult baptisms, and Anum by 12. Two of the catechists with their numerous family are cited as providing a good example of Christian family life. In Anum at the beginning of the year there were frequent threats that people would leave the Christian village - and indeed a number did, Müller listing the reasons: One because he was in conflict with the community Another took a second wife A third lost his only a child and seemed not likely to get another A fourth wanted to marry, and no heathen will marry a Christian Two other Christians have sent their wives away and remarried. The Christian village is not a good example of living in true love. Among these who were converted was an old man called Friedrich Obuobi, who had been resident in the same house as the missionaries at the time of the first starting in Anum in 1864. He had been regularly attending services for a long time and taking baptismal instruction, and indeed had often pressed to be baptised, but the missionaries were consistently worried about him because his attitudes were not clearly those of a convert - especially in that he could not admit to being a sinner. The missionaries had stressed to him that his time was short – and indeed during a serious illness he asked again for baptism, admitting that he had been a hypocrite pursuing only the outer advantages which followed from associating with the Europeans. He also acknowledged that he was a sinner. He was baptised and died several months later peacefully as a Christian. Another convert was Kwaben Otopa who in his time had been accused of sorcery and condemned to a heavy fine. He called the community elders to him in his last illness and confessed to them that he was a sinner and wanted baptism - and in fact was baptised in his house before his whole family. Towards the end of his life when he could no longer speak his heathen wife spoke prayers for him. Clerk baptised a man in a similar situation in Tsate. Among the baptismal candidates at Christmas was a fetish priestess (Müller writes ' or soothsayer') who had fallen into debt and need, and who appealed to the Christians for help. She was prepared to acknowledge that her old office was a sham. Müller writes that the chief and several elders were present at the service as if this was unusual – the chief was called Kumi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..99 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Report for the Year 1889 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: January 1890 Proper date: January 1890 Description An account of the resource They were paying the building force 20-25d per day and there was endemic pressure, including mild strike action, in pursuit of more pay. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..100 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Year's Report from Missionary Lieb 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: 10.02.1890 Proper date: 10.02.1890 Description An account of the resource He evidently considers that he should feel a joy in his work, which he in fact did not feel during the first half of the year when there were exclusions, and no conversions. In Anum the fact that the community is drawn from 3 different towns creates conflict - and the presbyters are too weak to handle it properly. Boso pleases him - the Presbyters are to be credited with leading the community well. And the fervency of the prayer at Tsate - in broken Twi - during prayer meetings is very impressive. In the Anum school there are difficulties because in most cases the pupils have to spend their first year learning Twi. Also the people - including the elders of the community - do not understand the purpose of the school, and want their children to work with them on their farms. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..101 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk to Basel - Report for the Year 1889 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: 20.05.1889 Proper date: 20.05.1889 Description An account of the resource Little sale of European spirits in the Anum area, though from here and there armed caravans go to Bagida, where cheap liquor can be bought from the Germans. Mostly however palm wine is the ceremonial drink. It is even difficult to get spirits for medicinal use in Anum. In the interior the new teachers have caused some disappointment because they brought no spirits (this is presumably Crepe). In the interior in fact the trade in rubber is carried on against cloth and spirits. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 13.06.1889 Proper date: 13.06.1889 Description An account of the resource Concerned with the first Mission Anniversary, Total realised from the offerings £20=15, more or less, from the different sources, in proportion to the strength of the congregations as indicated by the records of the stations already extracted - except that Anum contributed more than Boso by 5:4. The festival itself involved a lot of singing by the different groups of the different congregations, and a number of short sermons Imm. Boakye argued that - from his own experience - he could see that the fetishes were of no account. Alb Kwaku (A teacher from the Bremen station Tschakae who also attended the meeting) pointed out how God had saved them from the hand of the Asantes. John Okanta that the love of Christ was the only thing which makes life happy and advances us. James Asawa talked about the hope of everlasting life. In a meeting of the elders of the district after the Anniversary celebrations proper one of the points raised was slavery and pawning. The missionaries directed that if any Christian had a slave or pawn, a record should be kept in which it was written down how much honey per month as pay was being set against the debt involved - and that after 6 years services all pawns and slaves were to be set free. This Müller says was in accordance with the Old Testament model. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum 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: 18.05.1889 Proper date: 18.05.1889 Description An account of the resource In Ntwumuru Hall's house was indeed the first to be put up with European-style doors and shutters. Müller reports many families living per house, and says this is because they are farmers and spend much time out of the town. In the early part of 1889 there had been a street fight in Ntwumuru and one man was killed. Müller implies that Hall had played an energetic part in the arbitration which followed and had helped to avoid further bloodshed or damage to property. Miller forwards extracts from Hall's letters: 5 September 1888: First visit to Alavanyo villages – although he tried to persuade the people by talking to them about religious matters that he was no Governmrnt official they could not believe this and they were very cautious with him and refused to come to a formal preaching. 14 September 1888: Through Tepa Antomda to Wurupon where though he had a large and attentive audience people complained that he had not come to reside there - Müller comments that this was the original plan but that the bitterness caused by the visit of an English official in Wurupon had forced them to drop the idea. 28 September 1888: Praprawasi - several people promise to send children to the school 17 October 1888: Visit to 6 Alavanyo villages, this time with a friend who introduced him to the Alavanyo chief. The latter wanted a teacher for their children. Altogether, judging by these extracts, he made 34 short preaching expeditions in the year, apparently experiencing no opposition after the one incident noted in connection with Alavanyo. On two occasions at least he was accompanied by his wife. Villages and towns visited - Kagyebi, Wurupon, Atomda, Tepa, Praprawasi, Amfoi, Vakpo, Tesi, Aban, Tayi, Agbenotwe, Dafo, Okysrefo, Kpame, Erntiti, Agohoe (the last three Alavanyo villages, he also preached in other Alavanyo villages which he does not name the' he seems to reckon there are 6 altogether), Kagyebi, Kpando. In a few cases he mentions that he found no-one or very few people in the villages - in Praprawasi in February the people were all out rubber collecting. He uses pictures in his work. In Wurupon he was called to a sick Christian carpenter. Preachings - information is scanty, some texts are mentioned: Acts 4.12, our resurrection, John 3.3, Tim 2.5-6 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum 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: 25.08.1889 Proper date: 25.08.1889 Description An account of the resource Describing difficulties in the community. The family of one Odee had moved back into the town and totally given themselves back to heathenism (bought a sheep to sacrifice to the fetish, worked on their farms on Sundays, put amulets on a sick child). The cause was at first unclear to Clerk: The occasion however (after which the husband had absolutely and unchangeably decided to lapse) was an elder's rebuke to him - Clerk says because he would not help to carry the sick Christian Apewu (who had since died) from Nkwakubew to the station. Odee's only spoken reason was that people on the station hated him. Clerk discovered later that in the Tafiewe war Odee had stolen a woman's cloth. Arraigned before the presbyters he had been excluded from Communion, and out of fear of being branded a thief he had not left the community on that occasion, but taken the first opportunity to do so afterwards. Clerk also mentions another case of unwillingness to send children to school - the chief Kafana promised 2 children to the school, but brought only one because the elders refused more than one. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.VI..95 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk 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: 30.08.1889 Proper date: 30.08.1889 Description An account of the resource The report is printed in a German translation in Heidenbote 1890 p 19 ff. The English version includes some description of obsequy customs in Nkonya. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report on his Work in Nkonya Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.09.1889 Proper date: 18.09.1889 Description An account of the resource Report on a journey to Nkonya. En route preaching in the Boso area - a rare case of opposition in that when they went to preach in To there were few people there, and these people mocked them, so they had to leave. The Abo was swollen and they heard (in Kpalime) that their usual route was impassable, and there were no boats available for carrying them on the Volta. They therefore had to travel via Tsate and Dudome, and even at the latter place Müller was carried by a man who almost had to drop him when the water was up to his armpits. No doors or windows in houses in the Sohae area – and the livestock sleep in the houses with the owners. In Sirigbe the people asked for a teacher. Müller pointed out the teacher in a village not 1 ½ hours away, but he said, they would have to give up worshipping fetishes and using if they were to become Christian. An elder said they did not worship fetishes but God. Müller said that if they were told untruths then they could never start a mission in the village. A young man stood up and said what the elder had said was not true. Müller reckoned this statement cost him something -and they discovered that one day 8 of the young men had gone to a teacher visiting the village with the intention of becoming Christians - this was the only one left who held to this intention. Müller advised him to give up the service of fetishes, pray to the living God, and visit the teacher in Vakpo. But he also remarks that unfortunately almost the whole conversation had to be carried on in Crepe. There is a long account of events in Vakpo: The teacher's wife was extremely dissatisfied with the pioneer life (housing etc.): that the chief was more eager for the teacher than his people (he had himself helped to build the house which the teacher was at present living in). There was also a local man who had been converted while a refugee in Krobo during the Asante war - name Christian Kwasi. Preaching in Vakpo Müller took the text 'if anyone honours me I' will honour him' and preached on the virtues of Solomon who assembled raw materials for the temple. Müller clearly feels that the key difference between the history of the church in Vakpo and Amfoi was the difference in character and initiative between the two catechists and their wives. He speaks of the two parts of Amfoi in which he preached in each once. In Okyerefo and Asafe the people understood very little Twi. En route between Amfoi and Okyerefo they met a party of 50-60 young men with several elders engaged on cleaning the path. In Kpando there was severe pressure for a teacher, though in reply to Müller’s question who wanted to become a Christian there was no certain answer. Müller promised a teacher in the following July if a house was built for him, evidently believing that this was unlikely. He also said that the Bremen Mission was really the mission for the Ewe area. The villages on the stretch Kpando-Ntwumuru are listed here as Aloe, Aban, Afesi, Agbenohoe, Praprawasi. At Ntwumuru Hall's residence is on a small rise 5 minutes from the town, a small house, two huts by it, and a 40 foot square fence. The house (like that in Amfoi) is divided into three rooms, each with door and window. Hall is generally respected and regarded with affection. The king and a linguist during Müller's visit gave a son each to Hall for schooling which Müller hopes would open the way to other people who feared repercussions if they sent their children to school. But Müller says also that the children have tasks in relation to the busy farming - many yams are planted and especially the older ones have to look after the younger ones when the whole family goes out onto the farm to work. Müller remarks that there seems to be little peace between the King' of Nkonya and his subjects. Recently a fetish priest who advised the people to preserve unity was derided in the streets. 'Let is hope that God brings him (Hall) success in planting among the people another attitude and spirit and in bringing about peace'. Müller says he has never known a people so in the power of darkness - they are afraid 'but they do not know what they are afraid of’. This means that if you ask them a question you very rarely get a definite answer. Müller relays the material in Hall's Year's Report about the prohibitions put on him during the yam festival with the additional material that in Wurupong it was the fetish-priest's brother who told him the rules he must observe; he was also forbidden from ringing his bell and preaching in Tepa; in Ntwumuru however he was forbidden from ringing his bell but the king welcomed the idea of his preaching. In Nkonya Müller heard that many traders had gone to Oboso to trade in rubber, and that at Adele, where the German Government has set up a station to bring the different people under its authority there was a resting place where many traders were. Müller met a young man in Nkonya who had been sent inland by the Mission Trading Company in Akuse, and tried to encourage him to act as a missionary on his travels. The young man does not seem to have been very zealous - he would have liked Müller to go with him and help in the purchase of food. He also claimed to have had no training in street preaching, but Müller advised him just to talk to people, and to read to them out of his New Testament - he had one with him. From Nkonya he made a visit into the Atauro-nom district by the Volta. They preached in 5 places. In one place an old chief said after their preaching that indeed they were sinners - but what could be done? In other villages they seem to have stressed principally the point that fetish priests were deceivers, and received answers which seem to have indicated that the people at least in part agreed. Returning they found the Abo again swollen. Müller reckons 8 people had been drowned in the course the last three months crossing it. However there was a bridge formed out of a fallen tree one hour from Vakpo. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller to Basel