356 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-01.59.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-01.59 - Ghana 1893 Title A name given to the resource Tschi District Conference 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-01.59.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-01.59 - Ghana 1893 Title A name given to the resource Nsaba 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-01.59.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-01.59 - Ghana 1893 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-01.59.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-01.59 - Ghana 1893 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-01.59.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-01.59 - Ghana 1893 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: 02.01.1893 Proper date: 02.01.1893 Description An account of the resource A continuation of his reports on Buem customs. Hunter’s dance: This takes place when a young hunter kills any of the larger animals - e.g. a buffalo. He must send the flesh home before returning himself, and when he does return, he must stay in the first house he sees. The next day he is smeared with earth from an ant hill, puts on a straw hat with a cloth bound round his head, and palm leaves around his neck. In his left hand he carries a bush and in his right hand his gun. He makes the movements he made in the bush when he first saws the animal. The people present throw flour (rice flour or corn flour) over him. The head of the dead animal is wreathed with palm leaves and a bus again, sprinkled with local flour, and carried in front of him by a nephew. The latter moves his head as if he were possessed by the spirit of the animal. Horns are blown. When they reach the main street, everyone halls out 'Well done hunter'; the hunter gives 6 pieces of meat to the chief huntsman, he congratulates him, and the hunter breaks out into a wild dance. He then goes to his house, the animal's head is put down, and the hunter goes from house to house thanking people. The next day a special soup is made of the intestines and the best part of the head, and all the other hunters are invited to the feast, after which the smoked flesh is distributed to every family in the town. The hunter in return is presented with beads and cowries, and rubbed with the red die of a certain tree. The element of feast and dance representing the killing of the animal is repeated twice before the hunter can go out again confident that if he meets a large animal he will not be wounded. Carrying of the dead: Clerk says that the custom is very like that of other Gold Coast tribes. No mention is made of how the carriers were selected. Funeral customs: On death the body is laid out in the street - the only exceptions from this rule being suicides and victims of leprosy and smallpox etc. If a child it is laid at the side of the street, if an adult, in the middle. The man and women group themselves separately to mourn and cry - if it is a child's death this is over soon; if an adult the mourning and firing of guns goes on for one to three days depending on rank. Before the burial three dances occur – Agbla, Okpanyo, and Okpese after which an elder with a gong-gong calls ‘ofofofo' and asks the corpse to carry on any revenge which may be necessary in the world of the spirit. An adult is buried wrapped in a mat, with his own clothes, and clothes given him by his relatives, and a bag of cowries. If he owns a slave then especial honour is done to him in that one side of the grave is hollowed out, and when the corpse has been put inside it is walled off from the open grave so that no earth will fall on the body. Because of this, says Clerk, everyone strives to have bought at least one slave. Following this the elders of the town decide when the second part of the funeral custom is to take place - until then the widow(s) or widower of the deceased live with shaved heads in the house of the closest relative of the deceased and are fed by his or her relatives. On the day of this custom all the people who belong to the town prepare food which is then divided among the families by the family of the deceased - if you go through the town on the morning of such a day all the people are to be found grouped around the bowls of food. After the distribution of food the chief takes dried clay and puts it down in the street in the presence of the men of the town. On the clay he lays a tobacco leaf, and pours wine over it three times and calls to the deceased, the dead, and the fetishes, to give life and to divert death from the town. After which all those present drink palm wine. Then a certain food is cooked and distributed among certain people, the whole house cleared out, sprinkled with water in which a certain herb has been steeped, and the rubbish taken out of the town. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..142 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - 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: 04.01.1893 Proper date: 04.01.1893 Description An account of the resource The report is translated by Gottlieb Christaller and printed in Missionsmagazin 1893 pp456ff Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..145 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Article on the Annual Sia Festival 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: 07.01.1893 Proper date: 07.01.1893 Description An account of the resource Requests permission to return to Europe for leave on account of having suffered from yellow fever three times in twelve months. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..139 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-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Martin 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: 10.05.1893 Proper date: 10.05.1893 Description An account of the resource Reports on the life of the Missios House in Anum. They have 14 boys living with them, 6 from Gyakiti the rest from other areas. This is an unusually large number, since they have difficulty arranging to pay them all etc. With them they have planned a large area with maize and coffee - coffee trees planted several years ago have come into plentiful fruit. An insertion from Martin states that he has heard 8 languages spoken by people from their mission area. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..144 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Obrecht to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 28.07.1893 Proper date: 28.07.1893 Description An account of the resource Paints the picture of the pressures of debt and the sources of debt. He offers as one example a Toseng Christian Moses a man in the prime of life, still working off a £5 fine he suffered after committing adultery in his heathen days by working for the man who lent him the money 2 days a week. He is a shingle-splitter and had £3 work in the last year on the building of a catechist's house, but though a missionary offered to lend him the additional £5 he has let the opportunity slip. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..146 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Obrecht 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: August 1893 Proper date: August 1893 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..148 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report on the Tsopi or Asihoe Idol 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: August 1893 Proper date: August 1893 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..149 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report on the 5 Year's Changes 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: 29.08.1893 Proper date: 29.08.1893 Description An account of the resource The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1893 pp90ff. The article is giving a balanced lecture of slavery and the Volta slave trade, though this part of it is not taken from Rösler. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VII..150 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Rösler's Report on the Volta Region 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: 21.03.1894 Proper date: 21.03.1894 Description An account of the resource Part of the report is printed in the Annual Report 1894, pp. 57ff. In the course of the year a large schoolhouse with two rooms was built for the Boarding School, also, a sleeping room for the boarding pupils. In Bompata there are several houses on Christian land. Reporting on the expedition to Atebubu, Ramseyer puts it at 400 soldiers, 10 officers, and 600 carriers. Many of the Christians were recruited as carriers - Ramseyer acutely worried about them since they were months without being able to attend a service. He also thinks the small number of baptismal candidates was a result of the expedition, since so many of the people left the town in order to avoid colliding with the Hausas. Part of the force camped in Bompata. Ramseyer reports briefly on the outstations - 2 further adult baptisms in Atibie, several catechumens in Obo, the first 5 adult heathens baptised in Asakraka though not yet on mission land, 22 baptisms in Nkwatia where the people are building a new chapel, in Bepong the people have at last been persuaded to move onto the mission land. For a time an assistant catechist was at work in the farming village Ntawadua at the foot of the scarp - an elderly man received catechumen's instruction and is now numbered among the catechumens at Obo. In Asante Akim the first baptisms will occur soon – in Patriensa the chief who is also the fetish priest did not want to receive Boamma, but the people were very enthusiastic about him. Two catechumens are receiving instruction there and many people say they are only waiting until the Mission buys land to become Christians. Kumawu and Kwmnang have also been visited, but clearly feel that they cannot accept a teacher until there is one in Kumasi. The rest of the report is concerned with a journey into Asante Akim following news that Ahyiaem (the seat of Yaw Sapong Juabenhene) and Agogo had asked to be taken into the protectorate and to be sent a teacher. The journey took place in December. They travelled direct to Agogo, spending a night in the forest en route, where it rained for three hours. In Agogo he met Boateng from Bompata, and Assistant Catechist Meyer was handed over to the chiefs and people. The chief is only recently recalled from Kumasi and enstooled. The people begged Ramseyer to help them be accepted in the Protectorate, and Ramseyer said that he was politically neutral but would transmit their wish to the Governor. Ramseyer describes the welcome in Agogo in glowing terms. They travelled to Ahyiaem in one day via Patrensa, where they picked up Boamma. In Ahyiaem the women were celebrating custom for a near relaitve of the queen mother, but they received a warm welcome from the Juabenhene and the men. The king received them in a courtyard part of whose fences were made of palmfronds, since the building had not been completed. Ramseyer's response to the request for a teacher was to station Boamma there temporarily, assuring them that a teacher would be sent in February. He repeated that missionaries are not involved in political affairs. The next day they had a private interview with Yaw Sapong at the latter's request, in which he communicated his anxiety to be taken into the Protectorate on the one side, and his fears about the Asantehene's reactions to his bid for independence on the other. He won Ramseyer’s sympathies in this interview to the extent that Ramseyer decided to travel home via Accra in order to lay this cast before the Governor. Ramseyer writes tried to calm his fears, and assured him that even if it should happen that the Governor does not accept his proposal he (the Governor) will do all in his power to safeguard his life from the Asantehene. Ramseyer noted however that the Queen Mother was absent from these discussions and fears that she is hostile (this is implied, not stated), and therefore that working there will be hard. He wonders if it would not be better to station a catechist at the larger Juaben town Odumase, which has already once asked for a teacher. In Bompata he met the English officer who is there with 40 Hausas - Ramseyer reckons this is a sort of observation post, partly with reference to Yaw Sapong. (Ramseyer travelled to the coast via Kotoku). A Ramseyer subscript of 19 April states that the catechist designated for Juaben was stationed in Odumase (his name was Kwelfo), partly because of the pressing advice of the two Asante Akira catechists. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VI..137 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-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Report for the Year 1893 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: 05.03.1894 Proper date: 05.03.1894 Description An account of the resource There was an epidemic of influenza during the year due to the exceptionally heavy rains. They are still losing pupils through the pupils' disinclination for schooling. At the end of the year the numbers stood - 48 boarders+ 11 day boys + 15 girls. Discipline seems to have been a problem - during the building of the new sleeping quarters they had a battle to maintain a proper tidiness among the boarders. There is also a considerable amount of disobedience. One boy had to be beaten for persistent theft, and on being conditionally excluded simply lapsed directly into heathenism. On one of their preaching tours they met him in Buruku wearing the sign of a fetish from Nteso on his forehead - the boy was from Pepease. The pupils do not like earnest work - but their slow progress is partly a result of the teaching methods, which is very mechanical, enforced with the stick, and not careful enough to ensure that the basics are well understood. At the examination all classes were satisfactory, but they were especially pleased with the two youngest groups where Monitor Kwapong had taken considerable pains to make sure that they all knew the story of Abraham and Joseph without prompting. Benjamin Martinson is senior teacher, and Catechist Hanson teaches part-time. 5 boys have been recommended to the Middle School at Begoro, including boys from Pepease, Bepong, Nkwatia. The new buildings were put up with the zealous help of the pupils. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VI..138 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Haasis' Report on the Boarding School for 1893 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: 18.04.1893 Proper date: 18.04.1893 Description An account of the resource En passant in a discussion of the need for a higher grant for travelling in Kwahu Ramseyer gives as examples of the problems which frequently come up and need settlement: 1. That the chief in Pepease has forbidden the Christians from scooping up water from the stream on a certain day because of the fetish. Ramseyer has written about this to the Governor, and has also suggested that the Christians make themselves a seperate way to the water leaving Pepease town on one side. 1. Aduamoa. The chief there is still in open revolt against the Kwahuhene following the incident of the pretender Yaw Donko. He recently put two catechumens in irons, officially because of a family debt which did not have anything to do with them. When Catechist Okyere from Nkwatia went to see them he was struck and driven away, and the drums called the people to drive the Christians who were with him away. Ramseyer has written to the Governor on this subject too. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VI..124 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-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VI. - 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: 03.05.1893 Proper date: 03.05.1893 Description An account of the resource A short note accompanying a manuscript for the Le Missionaire, but including the point that Catechist Boateng in Bompata is visited by people from all parts of Asante Akim. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VI..130 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-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux 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: 19.05.1893 Proper date: 19.05.1893 Description An account of the resource Includes the information that a son of a presbyter called Anno had recently left the school to work on his father's farms after twice going through Class V - the same applied to a step-son of James Boamma, who had gone to help his step-father in his preaching journeys in Asante Akim. The fathers would have preferred them to go on to the Middle School in both cases. There are 4 boys in Class VI and the missionaries expect them all to go on to the Middle School. One of the non-appearing pupils at the end of the Christmas holidays eventually gave as his excuse the fact that the Kwahuhene had not given him, as he had all his other relatives a piece of cloth at Christmas. The king promised him this if he returned to school - he returned, received it, but has run away again. (In the sorting out of this situation a Presbyter called Ata was involved). Haasis offers the information that few of the pupils had stayed the whole holiday in their towns - and lists (though obviously not exhaustively) as occupations accompanying their fathers to the Afram to fish or hunt, and to the farms, some of them at the foot of the scarp. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VI..131 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-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Haasis' Report on the Boarding School in the First Quarter of 1893 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: 19.06.1893 Proper date: 19.06.1893 Description An account of the resource Considers that the villages at the foot of the Kwahu scarp are more numerous than they had at first thought, or indeed now know. There are many ways crossing each other, and they have not explored all of them. The catechist placed at Ntawadua has not found it easy to settle into the village because no house could be found for him. Preaching is received well, and involves little difficulty. The Kwahus are easily convinced if they raise an objection during preaching - the Asantes are more inclined to display their knowledge and ability to argue. He is usually easily able to silence them by saying 'You don't need to show us that you are an Asante - everyone knows it. Just keep quiet and listen.’ The problem holding people back from conversion is not belief in fetishes, for many of the people say openly that the Christian religion is true, and that the gods are nothing. The real problem is the church law as it applies to polygamy and irregular sexual relations. He offers a description of the household in which he stayed at Patrensa when he went there to install Assistant Catechist Boamma. The chief wife was surrounded by the female slaves, who were plaiting her hair in the form best calculated to show offs a silk head scarfs (Perregaux remarks that this is one of the most prized presents a husband can give his wife.). The other wives stood around. The children were playing a game with a fruit stone rather like that of an apricot on a straw mat. Perregaux says it is like billiards and harmless enough except that adults play for money. (He suggests gambling is an important cause of the universal debts). A quarrel was taken up by the children’s mothers until Perregaux told them to be quiet (Perregaux inserts some strong words on polygamy in connection with the remark above about its being a chief cause of the peoples' remaining outside Christianity despite the men's feeling that it is a necessary part of their life it in fact leads necessarily to quarrels, greediness and hatred). At the end is a reflective passage about the differences which exist between races, customs, usages etc. and the gifts of God to Europe which it is their responsibility to share with the African races. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VI..132 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-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux 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: 19.09.1893 Proper date: 19.09.1893 Description An account of the resource A report of a journey to Asante Akim during the Long Vacation 1893. In 1891/1892 Asante Akim was severely threatened by Yaw Sepong - at one time Bompata was full of armed Asantes. Catechist Boateng played a major role in maintaining the peace, and won a great deal of popularity in Asante Akim as a result - indeed he has told Haasis that the Asantehene himself has let him know that he would like to meet him. Catechist Boateng's house is much looked at by Bompata people and travellers from Asante alike. Boateng's house was soon filled with people come to welcome Haasis and he was told by people how happy they were to have someone in the town preaching the Word of God, they all want to learn it because it is 'sweet' and true. They all wanted to be Christians. One of them said it was much to be regretted that Africans knew nothing other than eating and doing wicked things. They thanked for coming to help them. Haasis' response was that they were right to regret that they were all slaves of sin; sin was the greatest power in the land, much more powerful than the Asantehene. On account of that, preaching in Asante is like pouring water on a stone – you are constantly doing it to no effect. Why do so few people become Christians when you all say you want to know better? Their reply was that they did not know better, they were children, and you must have patience with children. Haasis writes that he was at first distrustful of this kind of talk, but learned from Boateng that street preaching was well attended and carefully listened to, and that many had lost any sort of faith in the religion of the fetishes. He cites a recent case when a fetish priest was hooted off the streets when he tried to dance before the people at a festival. (Haasis went to meet the fetish priest involved, was previously acquainted with him, and judged that he was a fetish-priest to earn his living rather than out of conviction). But disbelief in fetishes does not mean acceptance of Christianity. Such people in Bompata are friendly disposed to the Christians, attend street preaching now and then, but are repelled by the sexual ethics of Christianity. Nevertheless there are 8 youths on the station as catechumens, and a family with three children including a grown-up daughter. (Haasis describes the long hours worked by the father of this family in setting his house up on the station). It has become the habit for people to settle on the station as soon as they announce themselves as catechumens. The youths live in one of the rooms of the catechists' house. 5 of them were presented by Boateng as ready for baptism, and Haasis baptised them after his further tour around Asante Akim. The father of the family declared that he had become a Christian to serve the living God, and to get peace for his soul. Haasis writes that he overheard a group of people saying in all innocence of his being within earshot (the group was in a separate building from him) that travelling through such weather showed that the Europeans really did love them. The next day almost the whole morning was spent in receiving visits - including one from Nsuta Asantes who were just then passing the town, who said there were many people in their homeland who wanted to hear the Word of God, but the problem was the Asantehene they said 'Who will help us if the Europeans do not?' and professed to be in fear of severe punishment if they spoke their request too loudly. (Haasis adds as a piece of information to the judgement of the current situation in Asante that many young men of military age are journeying into the English Protectorate in order to avoid going north in the war against Nkoranza. They say they are tired of the eternal wars, and want peace like their brothers have it). Visiting in the town in the afternoon Boateng introduced Haasis to a middle aged man who said he wanted to become a Christian but could not just now (Haasis judged that the trouble was the attitude of his relatives) (in a marginal note he writes that the man has since his visit registered as a catechumen and moved to live on the station). They were also called back by an old woman who said that Haasis had slept in her house on a previous visit. He reckoned she must be confusing him and Ramseyer. She invited them in and complained about her aches and pains, to which Haasis' response was to offer a cure for the ills of her soul. She complained that she was too old to learn anything new, and Haasis comments that the fact of salvation is not something people learn quickly. Haasis and Hanson visited Patriensa where the situation seems to be that as soon as there is mission land on which they can safely settle many people will become Christians. Assistant Catechist Boamma is having trouble with his wife who will not keep the peace and has a tongue like a sword. The chief of the town is not openly hostile. They also visited Yaw Sapong who said that if they had come to preach to his people they could preach as much as they liked. He also preached in Obimma, Kekebiase, Domeabra, Dwiransa, Kurofa and Adomfe. And travelled back to Abetifi via Dampong and Ntawadua. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.59.VI..133 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-01.59 - Ghana 1893: D-01.59.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Haasis to Basel