360 20 77964 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.02.1894 Proper date: 24.02.1894 Description An account of the resource Includes a report of an incident-in which he apologised to a man for failing to return a visit in the customary way - and a report of locusts in the Anum area not dated but almost certainly during the preceding quarter. He describes a visit to a sick woman in one of the farming hamlets. Her brother was wearing a necklace of teeth which people told Lehmann were the teeth of Asantes he had killed when he stayed behind in 1869 ambushing individuals and killing them. He constrasts the situation of the woman and a sick person in Europe - the inheritance of Christian love makes the great difference - a loving hand would have cleaned out the hut, and would have gathered dry foliage to make a comfortable bed. The woman's brother and her husband had cared for the sick woman, but it was a love without geniality, or ingenuity, it was more of a well-wishing. What they had done was what they forefathers had probably done for a thousand years, without reflecting whether it was good for the woman or not. In this context Lehmann asked the woman's heathen relatives why the body liked eating, but not dying? His explanation – it was not designed for the latter. (The woman was of course, a Christian, Maria Abena, who had once been Müller's cook. She died shortly after) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Lehmann's Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 16.04.1894 Proper date: 16.04.1894 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report for the First Quarter of 1894 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 26.06.1894 Proper date: 26.06.1894 Description An account of the resource The houses on the mission station in Jasikan were being built by the chief. There have been locust swarms in Buem. This year, too there are elephants in Buem - Clerk has recently seen a dance in honour of a hunter who had killed one. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.VII..147 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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report for the Second Quarter of 1894 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: 08.07.1894 Proper date: 08.07.1894 Description An account of the resource Mentions the fact that besides the bible, his favourite book is Cullman's Ethics. There is also a description of the painted walls of the school in Toseng. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Lehmann's Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 16.07.1894 Proper date: 16.07.1894 Description An account of the resource Contains individual case histories, and an account of the beliefs and worship of Bulu in Nkonya, also the worship of Moatia. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.08.1894 Proper date: 24.08.1894 Description An account of the resource Of the two men resident on the station at Vakpo, often one and sometimes two are away on trading journeys, during which their wives stay off the station with their mothers. The Christians at Bamme he describes as being in their first love, although their knowledge is not great. Bamme he describes as an Ewe speaking tribe Under Amfoi. The catechist at Vakpo has had difficulties visiting Bamme because rivalry exists between Amfoi and Vakpo and the Vakpo Christians do not like him leaving their town to visit an Amfoi village. In Kpando he saw bundles of fine wood on sale - no seller was present - the appropriate cowries were simply placed on the ground where the bundle had lain. In Tayi, a village they visited from Ntwumuru they found the men prepared for war. Hall advised them to do nothing wicked for fear of God's punishment. The cause of the tension was a dispute between a Tayi man and the king of Nkonya. A linguist from Alavnayo called in as arbitrator had found in favour of the king of Nkonya, while when the Tayi man had appealed to the king of Kpando the latter had decided in favour of him, and against both the king of Nkonya and the Alavnayo linguist. On his return to Alavnayo the linguist had dropped dead of a stroke. The Tayi people were suspected of poisoning him, hence the war preparations – for defence. He gives some indications of the contents of his preaching mostly in terms of proclaiming God as creator and lord, citing for example the omnipresence of the sun relative to the fetish (he seems to mean Dente since he talks about a pile of earth usually visible as he preaches) which cannot be seen in Salaga or Keta or when you are behind the houses, and also citing the relationship of a child and father group present. He writes that his reason for preaching in this way is that the people all accept the idea of a god and creator - though it is clear also that people regard themselves as already serving God, and cannot see the point of this new preaching. ‘The Apostles preached Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the way to God. Thus our heathen will only find their way to God through Jesus. Our experience teaches use however, that there is nothing easy about teaching Jesus to the heathen in such a way that it makes an impression on them. They know absolutely nothing about him, and have no need for a saviour - they would willingly accept a healer of diseases, the text which Christians at home find so hard to resist 'This I have done for thee, what wilst you do for me?' is quite without content for our heathen who always recognise with surprise that Jesus has done so much, but feel not the slightest obligation to do anything for him. That they cause God sorrow with their fetish practices is not difficult to convey to them, but they are so insensible that they have not the slightest anxiety about this, and so feel no need to look about them for a saviour. On account of this it is not to be wondered that we have to be constantly warning our catechists to preach not only God but Jesus on the streets. The only preaching about Jesus which I have heard so far with which I have been fully satisfied were some words spoken by Pastor Hall when we came to a place where the people were involved just then in settling a palaver. He said something to this effect: You are in the middle of settling a palaver. One of the parties is guilty. The other will be pronounced innocent. The guilty party must pay. We men are all guilty before God, but we cannot pay for our guilt. But God in his mercy has paid theft debt himself in that he sent his son Jesus Christ to suffer the death to which we had been condemned.’ Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.VII..151 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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Lehmann's Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 01.09.1894 Date late: 05.09.1894 Proper date: 01.09.1894-05.09.1894 Description An account of the resource Dr. Grün offers Clerk well-paid and responsible employment at a post certainly above that of the ordinary interpreter, while the latter refuses the offer, says that he has no wish to leave the .employment of the Mission, though will always do what he can to forward the cause of the German Government against the hostile attitudes of the people. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Correspondence between Nicolas Clerk and Dr. Grün, Official of the Togo Government 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: 28.09.1894 Proper date: 28.09.1894 Description An account of the resource He stayed in Kete, not Krakye. He preached a formal sermons to the chiefs and people transmitting to them the whole salvation history from the creation to redemption in Jesus, and how the kingdom of God had come to Europe and from Europe to Accra and thus to Buem. Now he wanted to know whether the in Krakye were prepared to receive this message, and as a particular test he offered the Krakyehene the invitation to send two boys with him to school in Worawora. The sermon was delivered before the chief and people, no mention of the priest of Dente. The chief's reply on both points was to postpone a decision for a short while. He held a service in Kete, but not street preaching. The market was quite un-interruptable. The market swarmed with merchents all trying to attract everyone's attention, and most understood no Twi. Kete has grown since the recent war so damaged Salaga's trade. He saw daily cattle, cloth, and foodstuffs for sale. Slaves are also sold, but not publicly. He came across one slave dying on the side of the road, and saw that he was fed, He writes that the usual Mohammedan practice was to dash a slave his redemption price once he becomes seriously ill. While waiting for the Krakyehene's answer he spent a day in Tareeo, and another in Tworeso, both villages under the chief priest of Dente. In the former the chief was very unwilling to have Clerk preach publicly, though unable to stop him. In both villages after. Clerk's sermon, which posed the question whether the people were ready to have the mission settled among them, the chiefs said that what the elders in Krakye would do, they too would do. Clerk then had another interview with the chief, asking why no answer had been received to his questions. The chief's first reaction was to ask if he came from the German officials in Adele. He then said that he could send no boys to school (It is only at this stage apparently that Clerk met the fetish priest, the chief sending to him to greet him after postponing giving an answer on the question of mission settlement again). Soon after Clerk went to see the chief again in the company of an Ada merchant called Kuwona, the latter teems to have spoken more forcibly than Clerk had to the chief. The German/English question came under discussion again, the Krakye chief saying that he proposed to send a tusk of ivory to the Governor in Accra with the message that he would rather serve the English. He also protested that if boys went to Clerk's school they would be taught to believe in only one God and would no longer respect him. Clerk denied this, instancing that he himself had taken his hat off in the king's presence, and bowed to him. Kuwona stressed the usefulness of education too and they extracted the promise that a boy would be sent later. 'The chief promised an answer the day after the next. The next day Clerk preached in Kantankofore and Krakye. On the same day interviewed again by Clerk the king made a face at repeated requests for a statement about whether he would welcome missionaries or not, and said 'Who'does not like people? I would even welcome them if monkeys were people'. He admitted that this answer was from himself alone. The official answer next day was 'If you have nothing to do with the Germans, you can come (and settle) - who drives strangers away? As for us, we serve the English and when you come, don't plague us, and don't create disturbances.’ En route back to Buem Clerk preached in places like Brewaniase, Kwaku, Bonkra, Abodowo, Patwu, Hyentae, Makokwae. He had many attentive hearers in all, and in all the people replied to his question about accepting the mission that they were not independent, and would do what the Krakye elders did. In a concluding general report Clerk writes that the Krakyes understand Twi well, He only visited the biggest villages, of which Tareeso is the biggest. Apart from those visited there are many others on both sides of the Volta. The inhabitants of such villages are in part slaves. The fetish priest's village had just received an increase of 40 slaves offered by one Kwabina Panyin who had just fled for sanctuary to Dente from Abeotu. The Krakyes almost never travel – they are farmers. Lepers mix freely with the people there is one village which even has a leper as chief. As with all the tribes in this area the division of the land between the English and the Germans has created great bitterness, and even in Buem it makes no good impression when German missionaries visit him. ‘It makes one sad when after preaching in a village the first question is 'are you German or English?' As for sending mission agents to settle in Krakye, Clerk has heard that the German government is going to build in Krakye, and it would be best to wait till that has been completed, since there would of course be enmity between the elders of Krakye who gain some income from their contact with Dente. He also offers the final suggestion that since in fact Krakye is a town for the elders only, and the there is a large population it is widely spread out around the district, there might be something to be said for settling at Tareeso rather than Krakye when the time comes. There is a subscript from Rösler to the effect that it is not the mission's fault that the local people look so suspiciously on the German colonial government. The real fault is the wrong-headed and untactful way in which German Officials in Kpando set about collecting customs duties in Kpando in 1889/1890. 'We must therefore hold ourselves neutral and in no way carry on political activities.’ Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.VII..153 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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's report of a Visit to Krakye 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: 03.10.1894 Proper date: 03.10.1894 Description An account of the resource Concerning work in the Anum district proper. At the beginning of the report is a comment that the administration of the community is a very depressing activity, with so many oases of discipline to attend to. In reporting on the Anum community itself Rösler writes that recently Anum people have more and more began to make farms along the river in order to sell their products advantageously to the merchants involved in the river traffic. Many however, go away for months at a time, taking their schoolchildren with them. They have appealed to them to make the effort to get back to Anum at least for Sunday, but some are as far as 3 hours away, along difficult tracks, and though some have responded to this appeal others have not. Perhaps they should put a catechist at say Pese (where there are already 6 Christians) to serve the riverside groups - he would need a boat to work on both shores (though this may well refer to the Akwamu people on the west bank) and he would have to be a strong man to resist the temptation to trade (he also builds up a picture of considerable interest nevertheless in the services, including among the heathen, while the school is not much attended by heathen children and even the Christian children are irregular in their attendance). The dismissed Wesleyan teacher was an ex-Akropong middle school boy, he had gained the favour of influential men by beginning to teach them English, and had gained a following on Sundays by marching his scholars in the streets singing hymns in the local rhythm. It was to combat his influence that the evening school, teaching inter al English was set up. In Boso they are having a lot of trouble because most of the members of the church are also attending funeral customs, and cannot resist the temptation to drink spirits In Kpalime they had been very impressed by an old member, John Kodwo, who had been bedridden with a very .painful and crippling disease. He had learned to read, and had a bible with him which he used a lot, and in their frequent-conversations with him the missionaries reckoned they could see the Holy Spirit at work – he was very open to suggestions and corrections from them. Discussing the Tsate area he writes of difficulties being had with the congregation at Aburofuom, who will not agree to the arrangement made between Basel and Bremen that their area belongs to the latter. Their main reason contra Rösler feels is that though they are an Ewe-speaking group, in that district Twi bas the sort of status that French has in Europe - if you can't speak Twi you are a bush man. Therefore they want the Twi-speaking mission to send them a teacher. (One of the elderly Christians in this congregation, baptised 6 years ago and, regularly walking the 2 hours to Tsate for services since is called Mose). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.VII..154 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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Rösler's Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 19.02.1895 Proper date: 19.02.1895 Description An account of the resource The total of the Christian cormunity in the whole mission district has increased in the year from 521 to 660, with Bompata showing the biggest single increase with the baptism of 49 heathens. Land and buildings - the only change apparently was the purchase of land in Patriensa. Personnel - Catechist Kwafo transferred from Mpraeso to Odumase (Hassis says in Asante Akim). Monitor Kwapong from the Boarding School in Abetifi to Mpraeso, Latter replaced by teacher W. Preko, the first Kwahu teacher. Dan Aboagye, a catechist dismissed in 1891 from Bepong was re-employed and stationed in Tafo. Sophia Amommea who had been the infant teacher in Abetifi got married and was replaced by Augustina Meyer, daughter of asstistant catechist Meyer in Agogo who had gone through the Girls Boarding School in Aburi. In Abetifi 18 baptisms, 8 of adults, most of women already married to Christians. Haasis picture of the community is extremely optimistic and satisfactory, 'Like Christians in Europe' they do not always find it that they have carried out their firm intentions - but he had apparently only one case of a Christian acting wrongly and impenitently. Attendance at services is good and shows a real respect for the Word of God though as for the daily liturgies many women and some men have to be warned about their non-attendance. ‘Many, indeed the greatest number of those who cannot read, have gained themselves a treasure (of memorised texts, presumably) which is a real evidence to us that the Holy Spirit is at work in their hearts and that they are in steady conversation with their saviour in prayer. Indeed none of them will have it that they do not pray, and old ladies, who as they themselves say have no head for learning say to me with beaming faces that they call on their saviour and thank him night and morning.' In terms of witnessing to their neighbours and relatives, Hassis wishes that this was clearer - though the younger members bring relatives in to the school. The heathen community however, looks carefully at the Christians - recently one had claimed that the Christians were not like they were before - they had begun to lie. Catechist Hanson (who was the other side of the conversation) immediately asked for the name of the person and the place - it turned out to be as woman named Ma Kasi who had been excluded some time before. There were three exclusions for sins of the flesh - a great problem is still relations between man and wife, though Hassis cites one case where the warning of the missionaries and presbyters were regarded, and another where they were not. During the year the Mission Anniversary they organised a harvest festival (with stools and clothes). A musical service with a mixed choir, men’s choir, and a quartet (attended by Captain Houston from Mpraeso) was well attended and enjoyed. They celebrated the first confirmation in Abetifi at Christmas. 3 youths and 5 girls, though they were not very happy with their reaction to instruction, being too much without gratitude and showing too little –sign of a deep experience. He provides some information over Abetifi - a new chapel is being built on top of the hill on mission land, Boakye has won the confidence of a wide circle with his preaching. He even has a school with 21 boys, though they are very irregular in attendance, especially as the mothers are mostly heathen and thus the Christian leaders have little purchase on them. 4 adults and 8 children were baptised from the heathen in the course of the year (41 now in the community). Asakraka. In spite of energetic work by Assistant Catechist Tieku (visiting specifically mentioned) little impact has been made on the town - only one mother with her children became a Christian. The people of the community, too, though now all settled on mission land are often absent, and show few signs of life. Tafo a town where the priest of Buruku is feared, and the fetish served with a devotion which deserves a better object. There is, however, one Tafo Christian, baptised several years before, and his wife will be baptised soon; they both make a good impression with their quiet ways. Mpraeso and district - much the same report as before - steeply response in Atibie (8 catechumens) almost none in Mpraeso. The English force (remaining from the English expedition) is at Amamforo at the foot of the mission hill, and the two English officers (including a doctor) are lodged on the station. As a result of the presence of the troops they have had an anxious year - one woman has had to be-excluded for adultery. In a land dispute between Obomeng and Atibie the mission was accused of being biased towards Atibie by the Obomeng people (no Christians and no scholars come from that town). Obo - a difficult year, with a revolt among the old Christians who did not want Catechist Mensah to be posted away, the two ringleaders of which were excluded and did not mind this. Another, James Kwaku Kru, left the community on the grounds that all the money he had earned since he became a Christian he had offered to the church. He had hoped to advance himself as a Christian. There were 12 adults baptised, but the large number of these were from Kwasihu at the foot of the mountain, and a result of the work of Catechist Meyer in that area before he was transferred to Agogo. There are more catechumens down there, too. Asante Akim - this report is a footnote to Perregaux’ writings on Bompata. Whole 'families are coming into the Christian community, immediately settling on mission land. Some of them are slave families (Haasis is obviously highly excited about the dramatic developments, and transmits some of his excitement - apparently there had been a case of a dying Christian making an appeal to the bystanders to remain true to their faith). In Patriensa Boamma is settled now on mission lands, and has 7 adults in his community with more catechumens. In Odumase the situation is unsure (Haasis seems to feel Yaw Sarpong might return to alliance to the Asantehene) -one man was baptised (though not an Odumase man) and the Juabenhene sent several boys to school. The same is true of Agogo beeause of the uncertain political situation people fear to become Christians though Meyer has been able to start a small school. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.VI..134 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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Haasis' Report on the Station in the Year 1894 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 14.02.1895 Proper date: 14.02.1895 Description An account of the resource In January 1894 the new school house was consecrated. In Haasis account of the movement of pupils in the school he reports that the Kwahu teacher, Preko, had recruited four relatives, the Abetifi chief two of his own children, a heathen man, who some time before had stopped his wife becoming a Christian after she had entered the catechumenate had sent two boys to the school. Pupils were coming from the Kwahu outstations, and the first three pupils from Asante Akim had been accepted - rather older than usual, but having a good influence through their zeal to learn, and working in their spare time as the missionaries' servants since their relatives had proved unwilling to provide them with the food-fees of 1/- per month. On the other hand 6 pupils had run away from the 6th class because they refused to take punishments they had earned. Numbers: 52 boarders + 19 day girls + 11 day boys. During the year the English expedition had a baneful influence on the scholars - the cook of the head of the expedition tried to tempt the top class to go to him in Accra, and indeed the 6 who ran away found their way to Accra where one of them has become a messenger in the telegraph office. The rest found no job, and had to return penniless and disappointed to Accra, though Haasis fears the top class are not entirely free from the thought of Accra. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.VI..135 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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Haasis' Report on the Boarding School in Abetifi during the Year 1894 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: 10.05.1894 Proper date: 10.05.1894 Description An account of the resource Report of a journey to Nkoranza. It is printed almost completely in Heidenbote 1894, pp85ff. An expedition of Perregaux, Catechist Atiemo, 2 of Perregaux' servants, 4 hammock carriers, and 3 box carriers. On the journey to Atebubu they eat their own rice, and game which they shot themselves. In the Afram Plains they met inhabitants only at the hamlet of Asunyansu apparently, until they reached Nkaneku. The latter is a hunters' settlement - in the past they have had to suffer much from Dente, who has claimed one tenth of their kill and was especially interested in elephant tusks. They had put themselves under English protection, but Perregaux warned them to seek a better eternal protector. From Nkaneku they apparently saw no settlements until the second day, when they began to come across villages of flat-roofed houses. These last were poor villages, what with the war with Asante, the greed of the Dente priest, the English expedition and the small-pox. Their message was well received. In Kofidente he met a party of Mohammedans who spoke neither English nor Twi, but came to him to greet him and showed him a paper which gave them the right to trade in Kofidente. Atebubu - approximately 1000 inhabitants. He judges that the inhabitants spend most of their time in the plantation villages (he found the town empty on first arrival). The chief said he would be pleased to have a teacher but would have to ask the Governor first since Perregaux was not English (They were puzzled by the fact that he was neither English nor German.) There are comparatively few villages around Atebubu - Perregaux argues that less would be heard of the place were it not for the fact that the great market at Nsoriku, to which merchants come from all parts of the Gold Coast were not nearby. (He contrasts the business of Nsoriku with the idleness shown by the population of Atebubu). Nsoriku is three times the size of Atebubu, a real Mohammedan town. He lists as having seen on sale foodstuffs: yams, plantains, peppers, cassava - these all were in much demand since it was the hungry season, salt, fish, beads, wood, kola nuts, flesh, cloth from the interior, carpets, baskets, straw mats, sandals, straw hats, weapons, skins, live cattle (sheep, cows, oxen, horses mules and asses). He saw no slaves, writes that this is thanks to the English expedition during whose presence many slaves got their liberty, though he also writes that he heard that a slave-merchant had halted some distance outside Atebubu when he heard of Perregaux' presence, in order to come to the market only when the white man had gone away again. The chief sits the whole day in the market accepting the greetings of his subjects, praying over them and their trade, giving judgement over the different conflicts brought before him. He had a numerous bodyguards sitting cross-legged around him. Perregaux avoided being embraced on the grounds that the man was a slave trader; on one visit he found him in the evening, almost dead drunk. 'One really should not wonder that Mohammedanism is making such rapid progress in Africa. You cannot talk at all of a serious conversion to Mohammedanism among the Africans – when one of them puts on a Batakari and announces that he is a Mohammedan he often does this with no conviction or faith, only perhaps doing this out of fear of his master. At bottom, he has only added a new fetish to the old, and replaced one set of amulets by another. He learns a few formulae which he does not understand, and believes thus to be protected from injury. A true Mohammedan treats such people with suspicion, and will never treat them as his true co-religionists.’ He advises that Ateobu would be no place for a European missionary settlement - it is-12-13 days' journey from the coast, which would make it over-expensive, and in addition the population there is too small. On the other hand two local agents would be able to do a useful job in at least reducing the slave trade. They could keep the government informed of what was afoot via the missionaries in Abetifi. A slave home could only be maintained with difficulty, and under the support of the English government. Leaving Atebubu he found the whole Nkoranza district in ruins, the minority of the old population remaining in deep need, some without even cloth for clothes. In Nkoranza town everything has been razed to the ground, even the Dente shrine. Perregaux’ account of the issue leading to the war is that the Nkoranzas refused the yearly tribute of 30 girls and 30 young men. Perregaux’ number for the prisoners taken to Kumasi is 600, though he is obviously guessing and reports that some people said 6000. The Nkoranzahene on the other hand claimed to have had 22,000 soldiers, and to have ruled over a wide area reaching even to the Volta, where he had villages (Perregaux remarks that he heard the latter point from several people). Perregaux recommends this as a mission centre, though advises caution until the political situation is clearer - he clearly feels the English policies in regard to Kumasi a display of weakness hard to justify. On advantage of Nkoranza he claims is that it is nearer the coast than Atebubu - only 9-10-days to Saltpond with no question of passing through uninhabited areas. The Nkoranzahene at first would not hear of them returning via Mampong, though was persuaded by Perregaux’ arguments that they had no stores for the route through the Afram plains, furthermore in themselves they had nothing to fear from the Asantes. It was in the middle of the afternoon of the second day that they arrived in the first Asante village. The Nkoranzas they saw along the route were overjoyed at the idea of the route to the coast possibly getting re-opened - for four years, they had been able to get no salt. Travelling through Asante he was under considerable pressure in Asekyiedomase and Mampong to go to Kumasi, which Perregaux refused to do knowing that they had no means of forcing him to. In Mampong he later discovered that a carrier of his had sworn fetish that he was a missionary and no English officer. In Asekyisdomase there had been real danger of violence breaking out on account of Atiemo's denying that anyone had accompanied them on their journey to show them the way, his object being the protection of the three Nkoranzas who had shown them the way. The local people knew this was not the truth and feared that in some way his presence was connected with a coming Nkoranza attack. Right through the Mampong country Perregaux reports destruction following Mampong's bid for independence four years before (he reports some Mampongs in Atebubu, others with their former chief in Amanten) though numbers in their homeland increasing. In Kumawu there was great commotion because the chief was suspected of having sent messengers secretly to Kumasi restoring Kumawu's subjection to Kumasi - the elders and young men being against this development. In Odumase there was trouble because the local chief would not allow anyone to become a Christian, and even in Bompata the heathen are worried about the scale of the response to Christianity. Included in the report is the statement that he too offers a summary of the whole of salvation history in his preaching in villages where the gospel has not been heard before - and he claims that the sacrificial aspect of Christian doctrine is quickly understood. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux' Report for the First Quarter 1894 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: 09.07.1894 Proper date: 09.07.1894 Description An account of the resource The withdrawals of the English force has created great commotion partly because the Asantehene is now making profit from the retreat (a case of liquor he sent the Kwahu king with an embassy was in fact returned), and also because of the depredations of the Hausas who stole sheep and hens right and left or paid half prices for them. In Asante Akim there is a sentiment towards returning to Kumasi allegiance - the chiefs of Dwiransa and Obimma leading in this, though the latter is a great drunkard. There have often been prophecies that the Asantes would regain their provinces by the will of the provinces themselves, and this now seems to many people to be happening. And in Kumasi the custom for the dead kings in the early part of May involved Haasis estimates 100 sacrifices - the rumour is 200, but the custom went on for 14 days and on each day there were different ceremonies, each involving human sacrifice. The rumour goes inter al that the King of Mampong had to send 6 people to Kumasi, the King of Agona sent a general who was failing to be submissive enough, Yaw Juaben compounded with a gift of gold dust. The sentiment is now quite against missionaries - the Asantehene says he will never accept a teacher in his town, and (in this climate of opinion) this will close a number of other doors which had seemed half open at times. The result of all this is a change in the mission's situation in Asante Akim, where they are still seen partly as agents of the English government. In Obimma, for example, during Hassis’ recent preaching tour, there had to be public dialectic (the chief's brother being involved) over the depredations of the the Englishmen's' slaves. Meanwhile in Ahyiaem Yaw Sapong is in an ambiguous position, and as a result that the catechist in Odumase gets an audience for street preaching, he has very little social contact finds it hard even to get a child to fetch water for him. There had also been difficulty in Agogo. The root of the problem was a woman who had been badly beaten by her husband, and fled with her relatives to Catechist Boateng in Bompata. Meyer was accused of abetting her, though in fact he had not done so. He had, however, in Haasis’ opinion put himself in the wrong by lording it over the people and indeed the chief, and by refusing to read them letters when this was necessary, on account of their mishandling of him. He resolved a great controversy by threatening to take Meyer away with him, but equally urged him to get his hones built on mission land (so far there was only an Akim man and his son there), because the whole town had grouped itself into two quarters, one pro-Kumasi and living near the king, the other pro-Christian and living near Meyer. In a very short reference to Bompata Haasis reports 10 baptisms and the blessing of 5 marriages in his last visit. The children in the school are able to answer questions on the story of the widows son of Nain. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Haasis' Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 05.02.1895 Proper date: 05.02.1895 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.61.VII..157 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-01.61 - Ghana 1894: D-01.61.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report for the Year 1894 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-01.62a.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-01.62a - Ghana 1895 Title A name given to the resource Ga 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-01.62a.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-01.62a - Ghana 1895 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-01.62b.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-01.62b - Ghana 1895 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-01.62b.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-01.62b - Ghana 1895 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-01.62b.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-01.62b - Ghana 1895 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-01.63a.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-01.63a - Ghana 1895 Title A name given to the resource Tschi District Conference