362 20 77903 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 17.09.1895 Proper date: 17.09.1895 Description An account of the resource This is the same journey as that reported by Rösler in No. 153. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report of his Journey through Krakye and Adele 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: 15.10.1895 Proper date: 15.10.1895 Description An account of the resource A disagreement with Mischlich’s suggestion proposing Buem as the area for a new European mission settlement, on the grounds: Krakye is definitely the most populous area under consideration, and cannot be worked from Adele at all as easily as from Buem (2 days against 5 days, on the main North-South route as against used tracks through uninhabited country.) Buem is also well-peopled, and one can look forward to having 6 or 7 outstations in due time. It would be impossible to maintain anything like detailed control of the area from Adele. Furterwore, each of the areas like Vakpo, Anfoi, Kpandu and Nkonya already settled in German areas are as populated as Adele - it makes more sense in view of this to contemplate setting up a middle school in Buem than Adele. It is evident the perspectives are quite different, Mischlich being consumed with interest in the Sudan proper, Rösler and Martin in Anum seeing things from another point of view. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Station Conference Anum - Annex to Mischlich's Proposal for a New Station in Adele 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: 19.10.1895 Date late: 14.11.1895 Proper date: 19.10.1895-14.11.1895 Description An account of the resource A comment from Mohr identifies Adele as Finko-Obooso, north of which lies Tagyan-Obooso which David Asante wanted to visit but was never able to. Opinion, on the whole, is against the Adele plan, though Müller’s comment dated 10 Nov 95 records permission for to go and live in the Bismarckburg buildings in order to explore the country more thoroughly. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Comments to the Station 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.11.1895 Proper date: 23.11.1895 Description An account of the resource He reports that Mohr is going to make a journey of exploration in March and April 1896 in the northern part of the Anum district. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - 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: 03.10.1895 Proper date: 03.10.1895 Description An account of the resource His house servants are people sent to him from Adele and Krakye by Lieutenant von Doering. He has given up drinking beer and wine except when ill or on special occasions. Partly because of cost (a bottle a day would cost 425 Marks each year simply to carry to Adele), partly because their attempt to stop Christians drinking spirits will be in vain until, like the English missionaries, they foreswear alcohol almost altogether, and partly because it would be healthier. NB: There is a report from Mischlich printed in Heidenbote 1896 p 5ff. This does not appear to be in this correspondence. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..136 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mischlich 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: 20.05.1895 Proper date: 20.05.1895 Description An account of the resource The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1895, pp 82-83. Additional points in the manuscript: Bowi, the old priest of Atie Yaw was still alive in Accra. The new priest was from Nteso, a village near Tafo. Although Asante, the Nkwatiahene sent him a present, he would not have the revived cult resident in his town. The Abetifi chief, Kwame Ado, himself gave the order for people to stay indoors at night during the visit of Atie Yaw. The 'fetish', now known by his right name Kofi Siri, had become a catechumen. A second fetish priest, this time from Abetifi (Ape, his fetish being called Fofie) had recently been deposed by ‘the people of his quarter' and persistently demanded to be accepted as a catechumen, and indeed in time had been so accepted. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VI..116 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Hassis' Report concerning the Capture of the Fetish Yaw by the Abetifi Christians 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: 18.07.1895 Date late: 31.07.1895 Proper date: 18.07.1895-31.07.1895 Description An account of the resource Reports the death of Miss Luther who arrived in Ghana to marry Missionary Perregaux, but died in Aburi only a few days after landing. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VI..118-119 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.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: 12.07.1895 Proper date: 12.07.1895 Description An account of the resource While in Accra on his return from Europe Ramseyer had had an interview with Governor Hodgson and the new Governor who gave him a good hope that the Kumasi question would be ‘sorted out before the end of the year.' Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VI..117 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.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: 18.02.1896 Proper date: 18.02.1896 Description An account of the resource There are 112 pupils in the school, 57 of them boarding boys, 30 of those heathen. There had been changes in the teaching personnel - Preko was posted to Tafo, and replaced by Monitor Wm Asare. Benj Martinson went to Nkwatia after D. Okyere's death. Dan. Kumi will take over as boarding master when he has completed his exams in Akropong. The main complaint made against the teachers is that they are not consistent about order and tidiness - and more basically, that they do not see that bringing up is more than simply school work. A number of portraits of the year’s problems and successes are offered. One Nathan. Dankyi has organised a plot among the members of the two highest classes not to take the pupils' quarrels before the teacher, after the departure of Benj Martinson. Discovered he ran away to escape punishment, was brought back by his uncle and accepted only on the condition that he accepted corporal punishment before the school. A class IV boy called Yaw Kese had written encouraging two of his friends who had recently been thrown out of the Begoro Middle School for sexual offences by saying that there were plenty of jobs in Cape Coast, and that – quoting Amos - everything that happened came from God. One boy Kwakye, who had achieved Class IV after arriving in the school only in 1893 is offered as an example of success. A quiet and modest character from the beginning, he had become more frank and friendly in the course of his time at school. Another, Paulo Ano had been a problem pupil until in Class V under Haasis' teaching hey had both discovered he was excellent at mental arithmetic, since which his morale and behaviour had much improved. The school’s coffee plantation was proving unrewarding, being on stony soil, and Hassis is planning another - it is half planted already. The pupils are kept in the boarding school free of charge. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VI..121 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Hassis' Report on the Boys Boarding School in Abetifi in 1895 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: 04.11.1895 Proper date: 04.11.1895 Description An account of the resource Offers the information that while in the outstations in Kwahu only on the average 9 of the 14 scholars on the list will go to school in any 6 month period, in Bompata in the last 6 months, 25 of the 26 scholars on the list have done so. The explanations given for the absences in Kwahu are that they have gone to the farms - or to Krobo or to the coast etc. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VI..120 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.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: 20.01.1896 Proper date: 20.01.1896 Description An account of the resource 1024 members of the community of the district at the end of the year, 523 adults and 501 children, During the year the posting of Mischlich to Worawora occurred also catechist postings: Th. Asamoa to Amfoi, S. Adae to Ntwumuru, B. Adae from Ntwumuru to Guaman (Buem), H. Krong to Worawora as assistant to Mischlich. Bediako (teacher at Anum) had to be dismissed for misconduct; (he protested his innocence but the missionary consensus was that he was guilty). ‘In general it can be said that the local agents did their works on the other hand with many of them real loyalty was lacking often in the small things, and they have very little drive to increase their knowledge and to make progress, especially in term of a knowledge of the Word of God. Also in many of them the proper love for and joy in their work is lacking, likewise the appropriate missionary intentions.’ Many preaching journeys were undertaken, especially in the northern part of Buem, the Adele-Krakye area, and there were two long visits by Missionary Martin to the Botoku-Nkonya area (Abo & Konso). Boso, Kpalime, Tsate were visited 8-10 times by European missionaries, and altogether the local agents travelled on about 360 days in the year. The missionaries often had the impression, especially in their conversations with individuals, that they were keen to rid themselves of the 'burden of sin’, but lacked the power to break away (That this is not to be interpreted as meaning a burden of guilt.). Discussing the community in general, Rösler writes that the majority of Christians have abandoned the uncouth habits of the heathen - this is in fact the difference between the Christians and the heathen, though equally many heathen ways and attitudes have been brought into the community. The Christians on the whole do not recognise that the Word of God has a binding authority for them, and the lack independence in the Christian faiths, especially the wives, who on the whole have become Christian because their husbands were Christian, and now if their husband is excluded or there is a separation between husband and wife, usually leave the Salem for the town. The younger generation are causing anxiety through their haughty ways. The most fruitful area in the year was that between the Abo and Konsu, especially Kpandu with 4 adult baptisms and 3 children. The least fruitful was the immediate district around Anum, in the latter itself only 10 adults were baptised and there were at the time of writing 17 catechumens. In Anum the baptisms were mostly of younger married men. The complaints about Christians living far away on farms is repeated, and to it is added a complaint that those living on the station exhibit a similar lack of ‘spiritual hunger’ and do not attend morning prayers as they should. There is also a lack of the appropriate sense that Christians should be able to work together well - vide the lack of unanimity about the building of a new (and much needed) chapel. 3 Christians had to be excluded in the course of the year. Toseng - 6 baptisms, community now numbers 36. The chief problems are an old man, a Christian of long-standing, who cannot keep away from strong drink, and a young widow whose conduct leaves much to be desired. But the presbyter is a sturdy Christian who takes pains to maintain a proper order in the community, and there are several young pairs of Christians who by their peaceful common life give a good impression. In Boso the chapel is almost ready for consecration - it has cost £100, £20 having been granted from mission funds. The only substantial debts have been incurred over the furnishing, and the community is hoping to clear these it the consecration festival. Röslers's main complaint in this case is that the elders are so un-singleminded about sending their children to school. The lack of increase in the community is probably on account of the efforts which had been expected from the Christians in putting up the chapel. Kpalime - the community is in a constant state flux, with the older members either lapsing or being excluded and new ones taking their place. During the year Rösler was once called out late at night to make peace between the two factions in the community, which reflect the two factions existing in the surrounding countryside. One of the elders had to be deprived of office for dishonesty which had led him into debt. Their new chapel unfortunately collapsed during a heavy rainstorm. Tsate - during the year a situation was uncovered following from which 4 people had to be completely excluded from the community and 4 from taking communion. The presbyter knew about the situation for some time before, but had kept it secret in order not to damage the community. The teacher there, while teaching well in the school, has not the gifts to influence the community much. Vakpo - no longer the centre for the Bomme Christians, but was increased by 6 adult baptisms. Amfoi - a thriving new school, a community of 39, with 11 adult and one child baptism since the arrival of the new teacher. Kpando - 21 adult and 3 child baptisms – community now numbering 51. Little difficulty experienced in getting the new Christians to settle in the mission village, and the presbyter, a nephew of the chief, is a real help to the catechist. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..155 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Rösler's Report for the Year 1895 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: 13.02.1896 Proper date: 13.02.1896 Description An account of the resource A second part of this report concerning a Sunday spent in Kpando is printed as an appendix to the 1896 Annual Report. In general the best school is at Ntwumuru, where the new teacher even teaches the less-well gifted in their homes after hours and clearly understands how to appeal to children. The most worrying school is that at Boso. Best learned are the biblical texts, and songs, and the catechism. But how much they are understood is questionable - they are learned off by heart, so much so that in in the youngest class you only have to say the first few words of the first text in the list the children know and they take it up and recite without a break 50-100 texts. Arnold's Stories for little children and Barth's Bible Stories are treated in the same way. 'Hardly any of the teachers ever tells a story in his own sords in a lively way so as to awake peoples' interest'. The language problem is partly an excuse for this, but Martin judges that by the end of a year the children have made great strides in Twi, and he divides the Class I. syllabus into two years. Arithmetic is the subject worst done by both teachers and pupils. The report offers two case studies of boys converted through the contact with the Anum School. In the first, that of Adae of Vakpo, the boy’s father destroyed his fetishes and amulets without actually registering as a catechumen. The second, Kwasi Mensah, was a son of the chief in Ntwumuru, and Martin transmits an account of a letter he had written to his father as Martin heard of it from Hall. The letter advises his father to become a Christian rehearsing the familiar point about the nothingness of the fetishes, and saying that he saw evidence of God every day in nature, and in his own heart. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..156 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Martin's Report over School in the Anum Dstrict in 1895 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: 01.01.1896 Proper date: 01.01.1896 Description An account of the resource The teacher's wife in Gyasekan is often ill, and does not take Clerk's advice to leave off local medecines and change her way of life. In Gyasekan the people of the town completed the buildings for the teacher on mission land. In Worawora the catechist's house had to be rebuilt after ant damage, and Clerk himself lives in a house in which they have to battle against ants. He regrets it is so difficult to get red Odum and Kyenedru in Buem - they make the best shingles. The demand for a teacher is extensive, though mostly out of a desire for honour for the individual towns. Without a resident teacher the taunts of the heathen when someone becomes a catechumen are hard to resist - the catechumens in Borada have lapsed for this reason. In Worawora the greatest response to preaching is among the women. A school started for the youths of the town in which English was taught started strongly but soon faced the opposition of the parents. Guaman - good leadership is provided by one Richard Ata, baptised in the previous year. 7 adults were baptised. There was trouble over the illness of one scholar, whom it was said was being killed by the fetish Kodonko in Atonko because his priest had died, and no-one wanted to assign him another. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report for 1895 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 22.01.1896 Proper date: 22.01.1896 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..158 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report for 1895 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: 03.04.1895 Proper date: 03.04.1895 Description An account of the resource A report on a journey into Oboso and Krakye undertaken from 5th Feb to 6th March 1895. First night Kagyebi. Second, at Ahamasu, having passed through the ruins of Kwahu Dukoman villages. The Ahamasu chief was called Okra Kwame. He was greatly anxious at Clerk's appearance, having on his conscience an ordeal which had lately been inflicted on someone in Buem through his instrumentality. Clerk describes the village as having 15 huts, being ugly, but peopled by farmers and hunters who have enough to sell to travellers. The chief does nothing but sit in the village taking a toll from the strangers who pass through on the rubber trade. In response to Clerk's presence he promised no more to practice the Odum Ordeal, and offered him a son for schooling whom Clerk refused on the grounds that he was too old - he would wait two years for the next son, Third night after a five hour march through forest with plenty of game, Mpampawe, 15 round huts. His preaching and protest against the Ordeal was well received - indeed part of the people were willing to allow him to burn the bag containing the poison straight away. They promised him a schoolboy on his return journey. Fourth night after a seven hour march through Savanna spent in Brewaniase. This village has grown to approximately 80 huts following on several villages migrating here, plus people from Tagyang. The people were called out onto the streets preaching after the chief himself had gone round telling them that he would punish those who did not attend. The sermon was translated word for word into the Adele language. The chief afterwards said that he had no objection but that he was not independent, being under Kpelen and Tutukple, also since he had accepted the German flag he wished to do what the Europeans approved. Fifth day, after two hours march onto the Akebu hills, grass covered though with small woods in the valleys in which the rubber trees can be found. After 6 hours he reached Yanya which consisted of 3 poor huts, the only inhabitants that day being a sick man with two wives. One hour further away was Twifomari, a new village of 15 huts, friendly inhabitants but hardly anyone who spoke Twi. Sixth day after two hours they reached Yege and Bismarckburg. In the latter they received a friendly welcome from S. Amason. Seventh day, visited Kasenkye in the vicinity of Bismarckburg. The chief and elders were dead drunk. The town is one of the largest in Adele - when Clerk rang his bell for preaching he assembled 150 people, and afterwards the chief remarked that it was a good word but that he could not give an answer without consulting the fetish-wife in Kpelen. In this whole period Clerk had much difficulty finding anything out about the Adele language. He had apparently been asked to do some work in this field by Christaller, and remarks that no German official knows the language and that he could not find anyone who spoke both it and Twi. Clerk seems to have spent several days in Bismarckburg and the surrounding area. He paid visits to Timurumu (30 huts), Odome (25 huts) Nkwankura (35 huts). He enjoyed a warm welcome from the German official von Doering. He also entered into discussions as to the possibility of setting up a mission agent in the area with the local people. In Kpelen (60 huts) he was recognised from his previous visit, and received in a friendly way by the fetish-wife. She and her elders requested time to ask advice of the fetish priest of Dadease (the successor of the deceased Yapora). The reply was that they had been visited by the German officials and asked to give up their children (Clerk interpolates, presumably as servants), and they had given up the Ordeal. They did not want the mission on account of their worship of the fetishes. Clerk continued to press for children for the school, and eventually (dealing it seems mostly with chief Agba of Yege) was given two such. Towards the end of his stay Clerk was treated with considerable enmity at least by an individual during his public preaching. One problem was that Clerk was advised on all sides to give up his plan to leave the Bismarckburg vicinity in the direction of Anyanga and Foso. He could get no guide and interpreter, people said there were not Twi-speaking villages in that direction furthermore the king of Tagyang was an enemy of the white man and would probably treat Clerk as a spy. Actually at the time there was upheaval in the Tagyang area, and the roads through Atwati were closed. The king of Tagyang had sent 60 riders to the battlefield. He left Bismarckburg on February 19th, travelling via Kasenkyi and Koi to the first Atwati village Tsirana, a place of 110 huts. The chief there would allow them no peace until Clerk had preached. Next day they arrived in the capital of Atwati, Slate, composed of 90 huts, lying on a steep hill slope. The priest-chief was called Koranteng. After his preaching Koranteng told him that they served the fetish .Buruku, their town was surrounded on all sides by hills, like strong walls. They did not want to serve any God. Clerk replied that no-one would force him or his people to worship God, but would they like to have a mission agent resident in the area? Koranteng replied that once the Asantes sent ambassadors saying that they wanted to and two men here to live, on in Siare and the other in Adele. The Adele people allowed this to happen, but our ancestors gave the answer that they were not corn to need someone to look after them. What their ancestors had not allowed, they would not allow. Clerk then spent several days in Adome, an Atwati village of 60-70 huts. From there he visited the other Atwati villages (in spite of the reluctance of Koranteng and his elders that he should do so) namely Okwawu with 40 huts, Keri with 120 huts, Goklong with 130 huts, Aberewanko with 140 huts, Nyamo with 180 huts. During this period a message came from Agba of Yege asking that the two boys should be sent back temporarily since a fetish priest had declared that a recent heavy rain was the result of the spirit of the dead of Kontong who wanted them to perform a final custom for him before leaving. (Kontong was Agbe's predecessor). 25th February-2nd March - travelled through Korantae (Adele) (30 huts), Odumase (30-40 huts) Ketsiebi (60-70 huts), Tutukple (130 huts) to Krakye. His general impressions of Adele and Atwati: He is surprised at the meagre population - Adele and Tribu (2 Areas) together must number at most 3000. Atwati would number approximately the same. The responsibility for this lies with the ordeal - while he was in Atwati a woman died of it, and you frequently meet people travelling from village to village with the bag of poison, which they reverence as a god. The Asantes are not responsible for the depopulation, since out of fear of the local fetishes they did not wage war in this region. The people are heavily tattoed. From Dadease to Tutukple-they speak Twi but around Bismarckburg and Kpelen, and in Atwati, they speak very little Twi. He was not invited to introduce a mission agent, but since the chiefs are also the fetish priests this is not surprising - his interpreters always stumbled over the phrase in his preaching 'There is no fetish'. It is a healthy area, lying high up, and therefore it is neither necessary to find a hill for a mission-station, nor to build two storey mission houses. The goitre swellings which you see on the necks of local people are an indication of the height of the country. There-fore there is much to be said for the founding of a station - Clerk advises Adele (from which you can visit Anyanga and Foso, where the language - in the former at least - is Guang related to the language of Atwate). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..143 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.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: 10.04.1895 Proper date: 10.04.1895 Description An account of the resource Relays information from letters from von Doering & Amason, and a conversation with Mischlich about policy in Adele. Von Doering was angry with Agba for taking the boys back, and the elders after his intervention promised to send many boys to school - indeed three have arrived in Worawora. But von Doering has stipulated that missionaries in that area must be German speaking. Because of the lack of such people and the distance from Worawora, they have decided that there is no immediate prospect of sending anyone to be resident in that district, though there is a plan to settle somewhere in that region in the early months of 1896 since neither Buem nor Krakye seemed suitable for the establishment of a European station. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.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: 28.05.1895 Proper date: 28.05.1895 Description An account of the resource Writes that one argument against having a mission station in Krakye town is that it is inadvisable to have a mission station near a government post. He also offers estimates of the numbers in the tribes to the north and northeast of Buem, though there is no indication of how he arrives at such estimates: Akabu 7000 Buem 7000 Tribu 1000 Krakye 6000(with approximately 5000 non-Krakyes living in Kete)* Adele 2500 Atwati 1000 Paratan & Katembara 4500 Fasugu (a town) 3000 Agulu 6000 Bafili 45,000 Basari 40,000 Somere 13,000 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mischlich to F. Würz (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: 28.05.1895 Proper date: 28.05.1895 Description An account of the resource At the end of a report about his return journey to Africa are the following points: - During his furlough he learned soldering. He has a picture of the Kaiser and his wife in his house. He remarks that it is no good beating school children a lot and claims that parents fear their children in Buem, and sometimes when a child has been heavily punished it hangs itself. - In the Worawora school they have 4 from Woraworao, 4 from the rest of Buem, one each from Akwapim Anum and Krakye, 4 from Adele, and 5 freed slaves. These latter were sent by the colonial government. He remarks that the emancipation of slaves has not yet been proclaimed in Buem, and that slave caravans are said to pass Worawora without making any clear reference to the need for a change in colonial policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mischlich 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: 25.07.1895 Proper date: 25.07.1895 Description An account of the resource Reports that he has 6 boys from the area which the elders will not send to Buem for schooling. He is teaching them himself, though they do not understand Twi and asks for books and school equipment. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.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: 01.08.1895 Proper date: 01.08.1895 Description An account of the resource The journeys took place in April-May and June-July. Remarks that Tongo must have been a big town before the Asantes took its population - who thought they were allies of the Asantes - off to Kumasi. On the old site of Tongo is only a farm and three or four poor huts. There is a new Tongo, but still not very populous. In Botoku itself he finds the people already know a lot of the Christian teachings. Their response to his preaching was that without a teacher they cannot go forward - whereon Martin asked them why they were not sending their children to the school in Vakpo. He contrasts his reception in the two Botoku villages Akokome (good) and Adadentam (indifferent if not hostile). In the latter he has seen a man making figurines which he claimed would protect their farms. Sirikpo and its subject village Dota - they were well received, and the linguist in Sirikpo repeated the point that they had wanted a teacher and not received one. Martin repeated his point about the availability of Vakpo. Martin writes about Vakpo. The town seemed unwilling to accept the German flag, and Okyere, the teacher, had actually been threatened secretly in words and in act-by the rich man of the village Dabanka Kwame, to whom Martin reckons the local chief was in debt. Kwame had said that if the Germans came to Vakpo it would be Okyere's fault. The opposition was not deep-rooted or confident - a later piece of information Martin gives is that the Vakpo people heard that the Germans were fighting the Tafis (Avatimes) and sent his army to help them. From the missionaries' point of view the key event was a palaver which happened on evening in the mission house, gearing that Dabanka Kwame had threatened teacher Okyere. Martin demanded that he visit him the same evening. A large group arrived, including the chief, and started to talk Ewe. Martin broke into this repeatedly and said that he was going to speak only to Dabanka Kwame, the others could stay if they liked but he would not attend to them at all. He then found Dabanka Kwame guilty that on the grounds that he had offered Okyere a pacification of a sheep, because there were witnesses to his preparations to ambush Okyere, and because Dabanka Kwame had come to the meeting with such a large number and they had tried diversionary tactics (Dabanka Kwame had himself said that this was because he was afraid.) Nevertheless Martin said they would trouble no more about the business they were Christians and believed in peace, though this was on the condition that no-one was in -future deterred from going to school or services (an elderly female attached to the chief’s household had wanted to become a Christian but had suffered from the chief's interference). This condition to be enforced by Okyere’s reporting such events to Anum and the missionaries taking them up with the German officials at Agome. Furthermore the German government itself had given the missionaries permission to open schools, so they no longer needed to work with the permission of the chiefs. Martin reckoned the Vakpo villages were all more or less closd to listening to their religious message or to their explanations about the value of schools; only in Bohome did he have a large crowd of attentive hearers. In the latter the Ramseyer’s old nurse was a member of the congregation, but she stands very much to one side, and only comes to preaching when a European is present. She claims she has taken off her amulets and is coming, but it is a very slow process. Martin’s description .of the Christians in Bume is fuller than, any other so far. The heads of the Christian families are called Joseph, Daniel, Isaac, William and Johannes. At Huvhe, on Martin’s first visit there, there was difficulty because of a case between the chief of the Bume villages and a baptismal candidate, but otherwise he was always well-received in the non-Christian Bume villages. As indeed in the whole of Amfoi, and in this respect he names especially Wuromahai and Afobu. In Sofievhe (Okyerefo) the people said they would become Christians (After Martin had preached on their being slaves to sin and in need of redemption) - of course he realised after the excitement that they would lack the power to break away, fearing to be the first. In Kpando the congregation is going forward steadily, and Christians hurry to move onto the mission station after they have joined the church. The Kpando chief actually came to the station to greet-Martin which he remarks is a great change from the time of his first visits in 1891 when he and Hall went to see him on the case of a woman who had been mishandled by him and put in the block. In the villages around Kpando also there was a significant response in Asiavhe when.Martin asked who would serve the true God 10 men and youths stood up, and later a young woman told him she had been attending the services in Kpando regularly. In Gagya, (where there was at least one catechumen) a thirty year old man told them he wanted to go to school- serving the fetishes was an empty exercise - so he would go to Kpando to have his name written down. They were also pressed very strongly to preach in the village of Aban (Abau?) when they did not want to because of the heat. And in another Kpando village Martin met a husband and wife who were going to announce themselves as catechumens, and after talking to the wife Martin writes that he could see she was yet another example of the way the heathen world drives people into the arms of the mission. In Nkonya they had few hearers at Ntwumuru, Kagyabi and Tayi. From Tayi they went by a secret way (cut by the Nkonyas when they thought the Germans were going to attack them) to Wurupon (The people of Tepo were later by no means pleased that a European had found their secret way). In Wurupon they preached to the largest assembly Martin had ever seen in Africa. There were more than two catechumens in Wurupon - two had only recently announced themselves, coming to Hall in Ntwumuru to be taken on as catechumens, and allowing him to cut off their amulets. In Ntwumuru they had two slaves as converts one called Bentoa was already free, the other was his wife, still a slave of an Ntwumuru man. She was called Akua Mmorowa, and could speak no Twi and little Nkonya having been in the district for less than a year. Martin advised her through her husband’s interpreting to work hard, and to attend the daily worship - which Martin was pleased to find later that she had been doing. Her master on finding that she was becoming a Christian had tried to sell her in Alavanyo, but a Christian had seen her there, helped her to get back to the mission station in Ntwumuru, and then faced the threats of the deprived master with the counter-threat that he would be reported to the German colonial regime. In Alavanyo they were well received - in Evhudidi they found a case in process over a young man who had been to Misahohoe and received a letter stating he was a free man in view of the recent Togo Government regulations concerning slavery. The case was settled by Hall (according to Martin that is) who was able to inform the chief and people over the terms of the new laws, and thus frustrate the ex-master from claiming and getting compensation. The thief there, pressed strongly for a teacher for his own people – Martin promised that he would get one, though could not forecast when. Zogbedsi, however, is in contact with the Catholic mission in Lome. Martin lists the Nkonya baptismal candidates as 5 from Wurupon, 5 from Alavnayo and 3 from Ntwumuru, though none of the latter are natives of that place, which, indeed, seeks to be 'dead’. In the four Atawronu villages they were asked for a teacher – though in Agbesia there was a lot of argument when they were preaching. Davigba and Beme are two of the most beautiful villages that Martin had seen on the Gold Coast. He has visited the Tweme villages Atigbota, Avigome, Gyangena, Komfa. The people are Ewes, but both sexes understand Twi. In Atigbota they were very pleased to have a European staying with them at last. In the last named they found a whole village drunk after a funeral custom. The Akhatei villages are no more than hamlets except for Beme. Owisutra he reckons at 11 villages - there.is a demand for teachers there too. Every time he asked why the people of the area spoke such good Twi they told him that they learned it as prisoners of war in Kumasi. In the report is some indication of the content of Martin’s preaching. In one case (the village on the site of old Tongo) he was offered a text by lady who offered her daughter in marriage to him - his approach to her was two pronged, talking firstly about his 'family' in the mission house at Anum, people who loved him because he loved them, and secondly to describe the relation between himself and his wife - including a stress on their common purse out of which she can take money for new clothes whenever she wants. In Tongo itself there were interruptions and arguments - he never troubles to preach in a place where that happens - the people are not serious and consistent. In one of the Sohai villages he was given his text by a man who told him that it was the shade-tree under which they were sitting who had brought the people back from their Asante captivity. In Adadaentam (Botoku) he had straightforwardly told the man who had said that the figure that he was carving would protect crops that he was a lyer. In Sirikpo he used the people’s interest in his European possessions to preach about the European’s conviction that they could not take their possessions with them after_death. In Wurupon be persisted many times with the question (to the priest of Sia) whether or not he was happy, and evidently he was in some places at least preaching to the evangelical question, and asking those who wanted to serve the true God to stand up. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.63b.VII..152 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-01.63b - Ghana 1895: D-01.63b.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Martin's Report on a Journey in the Area between the Abo and Konsu Rivers (Nkonya and Crepe)