364 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: 12.03.1897 Proper date: 12.03.1897 Description An account of the resource This report is printed almost in full as an appendix to the 1897 Annual Report (pp.59-61). The only paragraph lacking from the printed version is that which announces the arrival of assistants for Ramseyer in the person of the missionaries Zellweger (in November) and Kirchner (in January 1897). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VII..164 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Report for the Year 1896 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: 05.02.1896 Proper date: 05.02.1896 Description An account of the resource Comments generally on the situation in a not too cautious way - he envisages two stations, though is worried about Mohammedan threats to Nkoranza. However a major problem is the shortage of local agents - at the coming annual conference concerning posting about 36 applications for additional catechists and teachers will be received, and only about half of this number are in fact available. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VII..130 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Subscript from Johannes Müller Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 10.02.1896 Proper date: 10.02.1896 Description An account of the resource It is printed in full with a few minor stylistic corrections in Heidenbote 1896 pp 35-36. Perregaux’ letter of the same date, printed in Le Missionaire 1896 pp27-29 concerns the same material, but is being his view of time Kumasi and the situation. Perregaux’ letter printed in Le Missionaire 1896 pp 29-30 and datelined Nkoranza 25 February 1896 conveys no more than the point that they had been well-received in Nkoranza, that he was remaining there although Ramseyer had returned to Abetifi in expectation that he would be starting a station there, but that there was considerable difficulty in obtaining supplies and carriers. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 05.05.1896 Proper date: 05.05.1896 Description An account of the resource They had left Kwafo in Kumasi provisionally until the catechist assigned to Kumasi - Jos. Adaye from Kukurantumi - arrived. Ramseyer's picture is generally of welcome for the change in the political situation, and delight in Kumasi that he was to come to work there (he promised both the Government officers and people that it would be he would return as the Basel Mission representative) - he cites people saying that he belonged to Kumasi, and met one of the schoolboys of his captivity period who remembered half a verse of a hymn taught him in those days. 12 places had asked for a teacher. However he also quotes a cautious indigenous reaction – ‘we shall have to wait and see how everything works out, for at the moment everything is in disorder.' This, he writes, was the reaction to be found 'here and there'. In Nkoranza the mission land was in Kisima. They had had to accept it as a present - the Nkoranzahene had heard the Governor 'give' him land in Kumasi and wanted to follow suit. He remarks that Nkoranza has a number of villages surrounding it, though he doubts their own claim that they number as many as the Kwahus. Nkoranza also controls Mmo, a town 2-3 days journey away, and 'Kontampo', a famous interior market. Hanson had been left with Perregaux in Nkoranza. Ramseyer urgently asks permission for himself and wife to go to Kumasi, and asks also for a building brother to assist them and Perregaux. He also asks for local agents to settle Agona (nr. Gyamase), Mampong, Kumawu, Nsuta. A map of his journey shows that he travelled through Teterem and Kyekyewere to Nkoranza, and on the return journey Nkoranza-Mampong-Nsuta-Kwamang-Kumawu-Agogo-Abetifi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 09.03.1896 Proper date: 09.03.1896 Description An account of the resource He lays stress on the friendliness of the Governor's attitude to them - he said to Ramseyer 'I am ready to do for your mission whatever it is in my power to do'. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 19.03.1896 Proper date: 19.03.1896 Description An account of the resource A letter discussing the mission's plans for Asante. Perregaux had been seriously ill in Nkoranza, needed permission to return to Europe for recuperation, and the Nkoranza plan would have to be dropped temporarily. Ramseyer would like, however, to install catechists in Mampong, Agona, Kuwamu, Kwamang, and Dweso (Juaso) and Juaben if Yaw Sarpong returns there. There is a passage about Kumasi itself. Ramseyer remarks that the Government are taking large tracts of land for their own use, will the Kumasis themselves return there? As far as Ramseyer could tell the Kumasi people were living in the neighbouring farming villages and could be expected to drift slowly back. The movement would be accelerated if there was once more a Kumasi chief, and he and his sub-chiefs were settled in the town. However, even though the different states of Asante have received the British flag and made treaties direct with Britain, and even though it is known that the Kumasi king will be king of- Kumasi only, Kumasi will till bear the 'weight' of its reputation as capital and have the additional importance of being the centre of the British administration. Therefore they should take Kumasi as starting point for their mission in Asante in spite of its present small Asante population. In any case it is ringed by about 40 small villages with a population of 800-1000 - Ramseyer himself has seen 20 of them. And the market is still thronged each day by people trading in food. In a postscript Müller comments that little progress has been wade in terms of working among the Asantes resident in Akim and Akwapim. Perregaux correspondence dated March 1896 is printed as follows: Le Missionaire 1896, pp 35-40, letters dated 18th and 28th February 1896. Additional letter from Perregaux see No 136 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VII..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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 19.03.1896 Proper date: 19.03.1896 Description An account of the resource The letter is printed as follows: Heidenbote 1896, pp43-44 and Der Sklavenfreund p 118. The letter is comprehensively printed, with the exception of three place names, which are omitted. The estimation of 1000 for the population of Nkoranza town includes Kisima and Sasaman. And the village visited on 28th February was Bamsua. There is also an unprinted postscript which susggests that the area might be suitable for a slave-home - half the population he thinks are slaves, and in Ateobu slaves are commonly bought and sold - price for a man £8, a woman £8-9, and a child £5-6. However, such a project would have to have the moral support of the English regime. The letter dated 28 February 1896 in Le Missionaire repeats the material in the German letter dated 19th March, with no significant additions. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 22.04.1896 Proper date: 22.04.1896 Description An account of the resource He reacts to the decision taken by these bodies that only two outstations should be opened in Asante on account of Asante not yet being pacified. Ramseyer’s reaction is to ask simply which of the missionaries was in position to make a judgement about that? Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VII..140 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Letter to the Twi District and Gold Coast Conference Commitees 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: 10.08.1896 Proper date: 10.08.1896 Description An account of the resource A French version of the letter is printed in Le Missionaire 1896 pp 70f. It is concerned with fundraising. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 24.11.1896 Proper date: 24.11.1896 Description An account of the resource This is a typewritten copy of the original of a letter which was published in the Sklavenfreund pp 130-36 (not dated there) with basic information concerning the party of ex-slaves handed over to him by Resident Pigeot and the first few weeks of their state on the Kumasi mission compound. In the Sklavenfreund is also a note (on p 136) that the engraving of the executioners dance used in Sklavenfreund and Heidenbote was based on the memories of missionaries Buck and Huppenbauer who saw this dace during their stay in Kumasi in 1881. The letter is also published in Le Missionaire 1897, p.19ff in a French version. The Heidenbote 1897, pp.19-22 also carries the letter with three photographs of the mission compound and the freed slaves. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VII..159 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 12.09.1896 Proper date: 12.09.1896 Description An account of the resource The letter contains the text of the short note sent by Resident Pigeot to Ramseyer - dated Kintampo 1st September 1896 - informing him of the existence of the slave party and asking him if he were prepared to take them over. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 16.03.1896 Proper date: 16.03.1896 Description An account of the resource Arriving in Adele at the beginning of February 1896 he discovered that Smallpox had broken out, and the villages were deserted because all the people had fled to their farms. Mischlich himself was able to avert a battle between the Adele people and the Tsantso people: the latter had brought the smallpox into the area, and the Adeles wanted to drive them away but keep their cattle. At a meetinc of the chiefs at Pereu Mischlich was welcomed - they were pleased they were going to be instructed in the Word of God, though they could not give up their fetish-worship. They were eventually persuaded to send one boy to school each - they wanted to send fewer, and see how useful the school was. Mischlich also told them to stop using the Odum ordeal. Nevertheless a few days later a woman took shelter with him after she had been accused of procuring the death of her husband. He argues for a European mission station in the area, partly on the grounds that so many people travel through that it would be a good place to study the languages of the Sudan. Usually caravans passing through Adele rest at Katsenke, the capital. The caravans are mostly composed of Tsantse people, but you also find people from Sugu (Lugu?) Borgu, Dahomey, and even Yoruba there. They are mostly taking sheep and horses to Krakye to exchange for kola nuts. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..165-166 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - 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: 14.04.1896 Proper date: 14.04.1896 Description An account of the resource He remarks en passant that not one of the Akwapim workers in the Ewe districts has yet learned to preach in the peoples’ mother tongue, and some have been for 8 years. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..168 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Subscript to Mischlich's Letter (No 165-166) 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: 20.04.1896 Proper date: 20.04.1896 Description An account of the resource Includes the point that the German Government official in Krakye has offered to send him ex-slave children for his school; that the chief of Agba wants to send a son to the school in Akropong, that he was being brought a large number of illnesses and injuries to attend to. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..167 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mischlich to Müller 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: 20.06.1896 Proper date: 20.06.1896 Description An account of the resource A letter on the practical economics of Adele. He writes that there is very little food to be bought - a lot of the Adele people themselves earn their living in the rubber trade and there is little surplus. Meat is hard to obtain - you see some cows, but he estimates that there are no more than 15-20 in the whole of the country, and if you want to buy a hen or a sheep or goat, then you can only do this as a great favour on the part of the owner. He reports sheep and horse caravans passing to Krakye 'now and again' from Tsantso and Gurme. To buy provisions not available in Adele you have to travel to Fasogu (2 days) or Tsantso (5 days). There are it seems many hens, cows and sheep in Basari and Bafilo - you can buy butter and cheese on the market there. In that this information may seem detrimental to his case that a European station should be opened in Adele he argues that the food position is no better in Buem, and that in any case he is convinced that they should not retreat from the district. The people are beginning to learn to trust him, and he is especially busy with medical work. Martin in a marginal comment notes that the food position is not all that much worse than in Anum. For a month it has been extremely difficult to get food in Anum because the Ada traders have taken most of it. And if they want a hen they often have to send as much as 3-5 hours away for one. Müller in a subscript notes that the food scarcity is a great change since he was in Buem in 1884, and puts it down to the impact of the rubber trade. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..172 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - 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: 24.02.1897 Proper date: 24.02.1897 Description An account of the resource Part of this report is printed as an annex to the 1897 Annual Report p 62ff. Additional material: In the course of the year Adele (Mischlich) Borada (Jak. Agyei), Botoku (Corn. Otu), Evhudidi (Cat. Ohene-Asa) were newly settled by mission agents. Sam Adae the teacher in Ntwumuru had to be excluded. Among the missionaries, Rösler and family returned to Europe for reasons of health, and Lochmann was transferred to Anum from Nsaba to replace him. Martin writes of his increaing satisfaction in his work - of his increased understanding of the people, and conversely of the thankfulneee of people in villages where missionaries had not before spoken. As evidence of this he offers a visit to the Voltaside village of Tsifatsi in April where, before his preaching foodstuffs were offered at 5 times the proper price, and after the people had acknowledged that he was not one of the evil white men, the chief pressed him very strongly to stay with them and preach, and he had large quantities of provisions given to him. He reports that in another Volta-side village, Tsheme, he usually lodges with a man who told him that the only thing wrong with his preaching was his opposition to polygamy - instancing himself, who loved his first and childless wife, and had married two more wives in order to have children. This man’s welcome to the bulk of his preaching is echoed by the rest of the village. The Atavronus (Beme and Gyeme, the latter he describes as very beautiful) also receive him with welcome, and press continually for a teacher. There are already a few Christians in the area. On the west bank of the Volta at Nkami and Akramang the people are very attentive, and there is one Christian who attends services at Kpando each week. The area is characterised by the large number of lepers. They are not socially ostracised, and on his last visit Martin was entertained by a leper’s pair - mother and daughter. Preaching has its easiest entry in the Kpando area, however, partly because people are tired of the exactions and deceits of the fetish priests (Martin offers in outline one case of a convert talking on these lines in Tesi). On the other hand in Anfoe and Vakpo mission work makes little progress. In Gblonko he feels the power of heathenism is still unchecked - the people there are as wild, as the leopards they hunt. Bume and Sohai provide excptions to this general picture. So does Okyerefo. Consciencious preaching journeys are having their impact (he gives Mischlich's figure as 116 days, and his own and Lochmann’s as 159 days) – they are no longer strangers, but are in many places greeted as acquaintances of long standing. Children no longer run out of the village. 2 Christians were excluded during the course of the year. A major problem is liquor - over the past few years many farmers have taken to farming on the banks of the Volta, partly because of the lack of rain and the visitations of the locusts, partly because the Ada traders provide them with a good market. But this is the entry for liquor and more and more he is troubled by the problem of what is to happen to excluded Christians. Some become more anti-Christian than the heathen - and he had recently treated the child of an ex-presbyter who came to him hung with amulets. He has tried to ensure that no schoolboys are baptised - it is far better that they should wait until after their marriage. Early baptism often leads to fall. In this particular year the first rainy season had almost failed, and the locusts were a serious problem. Since then, however, there have been excellent second rains, and the locusts came only when the corn was ripe, and thus could not affect the harvest. One event he reports concerning Anum is the long stay of the English D.C. Eyres. He stayed on the station, though it is evident Martin hoped to keep him at arm's length. He had a load of whisky and a load of wine with him. Anum experienced an increase of 36 during the year although there were 7 exclusions. Most of the increase was through the baptism of married couples and their children. The small community at Toseng is near the completion of their teacher’s house – the sawing has been done, and 5000-6000 shingles prepared. In Boso the new and roomy chapel has been completed. The collection at the consecration not only covered the existing debts, but also went a long way to pay for a harmonium. Martin regards the congregation there as a problem, however, - the men do not stay at home with wife and children but chat under the shade trees till late at night. As a result they sleep in church- he has called out the sleepers' names in his sermon before now. Also the women are very unpunctual at services. They are self-righteous. Although Kpalime and To taken together are places where many people have been baptised, they are equally with large numbers of excluded Christians. Perhaps this is because quite a lot of them have chosen to live in To rather than in the community of Kpalime. Most of the active Christians are old and frail people. Recently a fetish priest of bad reputation has been baptised with his two sons. His baptism was twice put off, firstly because he seemed to feel it was an honour for the church to baptise such an important fetish priest, secondly because he told Martin he believed that the fetish lived, but that Christ was stronger. Eventually he accepted that the fetish was the work of the devil, and pled that as he was an old man, likely to die any day, and therefore doomed to be given to the devil, they should baptise him. Martin agreed - he writes that he knew little, but wanting to be delivered from his sins, death, and the devil was enough - and in any case he had resisted the reactions of the townspeople to his baptism. He has developed a new route towards the hinterland taking in Tsatei, where the congregation needs frequent visits, and then proceeding along the Abo through the Tsatei and Abofrom farms. This is a shadier way than the old way, and on it he has many opportunities to talk to both Christians and heathens alike. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..193-194 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Year's Report for the Anum District in 1896, written by Missionary Martin 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: 18.01.1897 Proper date: 18.01.1897 Description An account of the resource A number of ex-pupils of the Worawora School are now apprentices to craftsmen. One problem in schoolwork is, of course, language. Even in Worawora the neople say they do not understand Akwapim Twi as well as Akim or Asante, and Clerk, though an Akwapim, wishes that it had been one of the other dialects which had been used for the basis of written Twi. In other schools the children speak a different language altogether, and have to be taken through the first year syllabus in two years in order to be taught Twi. In Gyasekan Clerk has had to warn Teacher Ruben against succumbing to the temptation to teach the children parrot-fashion under these circumstances. The Worawora community increased by 7 in the year (to 28) with one exclusion. There are 42 catechumens. On the whole Clerk seems happy with the life of the community, though he had some trouble gaining obedience from the youths and a catechumen had to be excluded also, for sexual offences. The Gyasekan community stands at 30, with 6 catechumens. Several youths have lapsed during the year on account of not being able to find wives. The Christians are distributed among three villages - the two Gyasekans, and Bowuri. In the second part of the year especially their long journeys in pursuit of the rubber trade caused difficulties. Guamang – 25 Christians and 10 catechumens – the Christians mostly unmarried young men faced by some opposition on the part of their parents. Clerk is anxious about their marriage prospects, and the difficulties connected thereto. Borada - one member, 3 catechumens. There had been difficulties with the chief earlier in the year when a priest of Atonko was converted - this has now smoothed itself out, partly through intervention of the German official in Agome, to whom Clerk had appealed to explain the limitations on his religious rulings. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..197 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Annual Report for 1896 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: 24.04.1896 Proper date: 24.04.1896 Description An account of the resource Reports a case of a husband who has having, difficulties becoming a Christian - he was a polygamist, and one of his wives had also had her name written down, perhaps in the hope of being the chosen wife. She was somewhat weak in body, however, often suffering hard births, and the husband was perplexed over this choice. Clerk demonstrates that relations between the Buem 'king' and the mission were complicated. The king wanted a teacher for Borada, and had refused to intervene in one case where a Guamang man had asked him to stop a young relative becoming a Christian. However, he had apparently countenanced the pressure put on a young Guamang man, the son of Kwaku Lofo. The latter too had an ambivalent attitude - he had been friendly to Clerk ever since Clerk stayed in his house on his first visit to Guamang. Also he had frequently asked for a teacher to teach them wisdom. He had placed no obstacle in the way of a nephew, Yaw, being baptised, but he had refused to let his son be baptised. In Borada this lad had been threatened with violence if he did not - first - take the great oath 'Friday' that he would never become a Christian, then - second - the less oath 'the foot' that he would not. Neither of these strategies had succeeded, but he had eventually been deterred by his father’s threat to kill him. There are difficulties at Gyasekan - the chief is friendly, but his linguist very hostile. He had on one occasion broken into a house on the station in pursuit of a Christian he was harassing, and since this was against traditional law the chief had sentenced him to pay a pacification fee. A similar case had occurred in Clerk's presence on his last visit to Gyasekan, a Christian was actually being beaten in the room where Clerk had been talking to him, before Clerk stopped the aggressor. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..186 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report for the First Quarter of 1896 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: 31.07.1896 Proper date: 31.07.1896 Description An account of the resource Reports being asked to be present and give advice at a meeting of the Worawora chief and elders. He saw them choose two (out of four candidates) as heads of the young men. They then discussed a series of reforms in custom in line with what the missionaries had told them. Only a biennial shooting for the dead, and a reduction in the amount of food prepared for funeral festivities: reuduction of the seclusion of widow from a month and a week to a few days; marriage celebrations to be reduced from 3-4 months to 2: one week's marriage for an already pregnant girl, the presents regulated. Clerk obviously thinks these regulations were serious, and indeed he writes that two important men have since died and have had no shooting at their funerals (He adds in a footnote, however, that regulation about pregnant brides are apparently not seriously intended). Clerk himself proposed that burials should no longer be made in the houses but in a village cemetery - this in order to cut down the death rate, which Clerk ascribes to this unhygienic practice. The council refused this, saying the dead would not like to be buried in the open air. Clerk remarks that he hopes the German regime will make rules on this subject as the English regime has done, and that it would be very good for the country if the colonial government and the missionaries could go hand in hand. Many slaves have fled in the course of the year, and a few been recaptured. No German official has raised the subject of slavery in Buem, and buying and selling continues unabated. The polygamist mentioned by Clerk in an earlier report (No 186) has made his choice. Clerk must now help him over the question of his slaves. There had been a case of violence done by a man to two female catechumens - the Worawora chief had taken the Christian's side. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..189 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerks Report for the Second Quarter 1886 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: 17.09.1896 Proper date: 17.09.1896 Description An account of the resource The letter is full of miscellaneous information, including geographical points, and information concerning traditional religion. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..188 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-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall to Basel