365 20 77825 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 08.09.1897 Proper date: 08.09.1897 Description An account of the resource The bulk of this report is communicated in Le Missionaire, 1897, pp.94-95. Additional material: On the whole the chiefs received him well, the Kumwawuhene especially, so he also get to know one of the catechumen in Kumawu especially well, and a brother of the thief. From Kumawu he visited Bodomasi also. The full course of the journey was Ahenkurow, Agona, Banco, Kuwamu, Nsuta, Mampong. The town where he conversed with the small girl while the men had fled is not named, it was on the plain. However, he received a roughly similar welcome in Banco. The sick woman referred to he met in Okmososo near Agona. In Kwaman he saw a man pounding ash in a mortar with a peaceful, guiltless face (apparently he was not a Christian), but Zellweger took it as a symbol of what a Christian should feel like. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..178 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Zellweger's Report on a Preaching Tour in Asante Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 30.08.1897 Proper date: 30.08.1897 Description An account of the resource The Governor has explained that while the English Government has provision for assisting slaves freed on the sea, there is no provision for assisting slaves freed on land – however he made a (presumably personal) donation of £20. He was present at a Durbar when the Governor visited Kumasi. He heard him speak severely to the Kumasi chiefs for trying to make contact with Prempeh. He also said they should give up using the Great Oath of Asante. The head Kumasi chief protested at this, later came privately to Ramseyer to ask him to intercede for them on this point. Ramseyer in a private talk with the Government informed him that the Great Oath was not private to Prempeh as the Governor had thought, but very old, and also that the universal complaint was that the chiefs had no more authority, and would have none if the oath was prohibited. The Governor therefore later called the chiefs and told them they could use the Great Oath but only in Kumasi. Ramseyer remarks that they were all the while trying to maintain the authority outside Kumasi. He thinks the Kumasi chiefs feared that Prince Twereboanda might be made king over them. He claims that is advising the Governor over the Great Oath as he did he was not mixing in political matters - he simply felt it was his duty to make available to the Governor his knowledge of the situation in Asante. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..165 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.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: 28.09.1897 Proper date: 28.09.1897 Description An account of the resource Mentions his plans for catechists in Juaben, Kyease, and Ofeso. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Ranseyer's Private Letter to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 04.10.1897 Proper date: 04.10.1897 Description An account of the resource Reports a case in which the (ex-slave) housemother of the ex-slave children had been found involved in the theft of two of the young girls. A French version is printed in full in Le Missionaire 1897 pp90ff. Ramseyer discovered what had happened to the children by appointing two of his Asante schoolboys. The Kumasi magistrate (Dr Hall, doubling as doctor) had tried to use Hausa soldiers to find out what had happened, but Ramseyer had been sceptical of their usefulness, when investigations of their own people were involved. The names of the people involved were Fatima (Housemother) Amma Bomadeng and Samadourounya (the two stolen girls) Makla (Fatima's daughter) Cetera and Soungourour (probably also from the ex-slaves home?) Fatima's accomplices. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..179 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.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: 05.10.1897 Proper date: 05.10.1897 Description An account of the resource Pleads to be spared from being appointed General Praeses on the Gold Coast when Müller retires mostly on the grounds that they do not want to be taken away from Kumasi - it has been a ‘sweet' experience for them to feel the trust that the Asante people are showing for them. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..169 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.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: 15.10.1897 Proper date: 15.10.1897 Description An account of the resource Outlines the political situation in reply to a letter from Basel concerned about the security of resources invested in Kumasi missionary buildings. He does not think Samory is a danger because he does not believe Samory wants to attack the English, and they in their turn are garrisoning into the interior, and appear to intend to protect and forward trade (he cites the telegraph to Kintampo, and the new stationing of garrisons at Yegyi and Daboya). As for the population of Kumasi, they will return when there is less fear of Samory (he reports one huge panic even in the Christian and Kwahu quarters stirred up apparently by the calling out of the Hausas on a mobilisation exercise). Also at the moment there are insistent calls for labour for building and load-carrying by the chiefs in Kumasi, and it is easier to escape these if one is outside the town. Nevertheless, when they hold street preaching outside the house of the Kumasi head-chief Buabasa they usually have a good number of Kumasi as hearers, which indicates that there are a fair number of such people living among the ruins of Bantama and Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..171 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.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: 26.01.1898 Proper date: 26.01.1898 Description An account of the resource A long-standing woman member of the community had had to be excluded for 'falling' with an excluded man and refusing to live with her husband - Perregaux had in time past held her up as an example. She was part of a reduction .of 4 in the Abetifi community due to exclusions - 42 members had moved away, 18 of them into Kumasi, including the families of 3 evangelists (one of Ramseyer's new evangelists was a man who had cared for Perregaux during his Nkoranza illness). He is starting his Evangelists' School in Abetifi - it is partly intended for boys of good character who passed through the Akropong schools, but were not giften enough to go into the Seminaries. The founding of the School is put into the context of an acute shortage of local help. In Obomeng, for example, the chief had been asking for a teacher for so long that he eventually asked the Methodists to help – they sent one, but he did not last long. Perregaux wonders if the Akwapim people should not cut down their own requirements a little. He cites the Abiriw congregation, only 2 minutes from Akropong, which has its own catechist. (Müller notes that Abiriw has a school with 50 pupils and a Christian Community of 150). Five of the pupils are well past school age. One from Abetifi had been being coached to be an evangelist some time before, but had put away his wife and taken another 7 years before whereupon he had been excluded for a time. He is a carpenter. Another had been through the Akropong elementary school and the Government School Accra, and had been a shop keeper in the Congo for a time before coming back saying he found no joy in that calling. In Pepease there has been difficulty, and things are at a standstill. The chief there is feared - hence the movement of a number of people onto the station, He also knows how to win peoples' loyalty, however - and thus an elderly Pepease Christian has just returned to the town in order to take up a sub-chief's stool. His only recently baptised Christian wife from Abetifi has refused to go with him. At the same time a Presbyter used the money entrusted to him for the costs of building the chapel to pay his brother's debts - he has had to be excluded and has gone to Kumasi to try to earn the lost money (Fr. 125). Catechist Martinson is too old to be able to handle everything, including the school, satisfactorily. Nkwatia - a notorious fetish priest has become a catechumen. In Tafo Mmesekua, the priest of Buruku died in the course of the year - Perregaux evidently hopes this will improve the prospects for the Christian community in Tafo. In Bepong 2S adults and 22 children were baptised, and there are still 24 catechumens. Perregaux offers no explanation of this occurrence, other than that Catechist Boakye is an industrious man, however, he had never succeeded in holding a school together - he usually tries to send pupils to Mpraeso but they never continue with that for long. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..135 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux' Report for the Year 1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 07.01.1898 Proper date: 07.01.1898 Description An account of the resource There are more than 100 children in the Abetifi schools. Jost comments on the monitor in charge of the younger forms 'his method reminds one often of the schoolmaster of times past. His teaching is very much a matter of drilling, rather than drawing out the understanding of the pupils’. His stick - with which he strikes right and left - is hardly ever out of his hand. He has forced Jost to warn him that children should not be estranged from the school, but should be won to come to it with happy expectation and enjoyment. 3 or 4 Abetifi pupils will go to the Begoro Middle School in the coming academic year. At Queen Victoria's Jubilee the boys put on a demonstration of singing, gymnastics, and military exercises, looking, as they performed with and sabres 'like a half company of Hausa soldiers'. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Friedrich Jost's Report on the Abetifi Boarding School in 1897 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: 22.01.1898 Proper date: 22.01.1898 Description An account of the resource This is partly printed as an annex to the 1898 Annual Report pp 51.52. Additional material: The Obrechts arrived early in the year to take over from the Haasis family, due to go on leave. The Mission Festival in 1897 was held in Nkwatia at the same time that the new and enlarged Nkwatia chapel was consecrated. At the same festival 20 heathens were baptised, and 3 excluded Christians received back into full membership. Abetifi community: 9 heathens were baptised, 4 of them schoolboys. One man who had been under baptismal instruction for two years and had even built his house on the station had to ta have his baptism postponed because he undertook a slave-selling expedition into Akwapim for a heathen friend from Abetifi, taking there a child which was sold for £5-10. The missionaries have warned him to undo this deed or they will have to report it to the colonial government. 3 excluded Christians were re-accepted, including an elderly man, Daniel Ntim. He had earlier been excluded for quarrelsomeness and fighting while drunk, and had since foresworn all intoxicating drinks, taking for a time to coffee but giving that up because milk and sugar cost too much, and in the end drinking only water (It emerges from this man's story that in the course of the year a Christian had been killed in a hunting accident). He accounts for 25 of the 42 people who had moved away from Abetifi and thus been lost to the community under the headings moved to Asante 18, and to the Begoro Middle School 7. During the year there had been difficulty with the kindergarten in Abetifi. The longstanding teacher, Augustine Meyer, moved- away to Agogo to prepare for her marriage in the house of her father. Her successor was Regina Gyamera, daughter of Asssistant Catechist Tieku of Asakraka. It soon emerged that she had had sexual relations with one of the missionaries' servants, at which Catechist Tieku went to the Okwahuhene for damages of £50 - hence his posting away to Akim. The missionaries felt that he had shown unnecessary lust for money in this situation, as well as having broken the regulations by going outside the mission's own judicial processes. Eventually a teacher's daughter from Akim, - Rosine Donko, was appointed. Of the 8 excluded, 4 were on account of sexual misdemeanours and 4 on account of unbiddableness. One of the former 4 was a man who had committed adultery with two Christian wives on the station, admitted the fault himself, and shortly afterwards lost his real wife in childbed. The community regarded this as a punishment from God. Mpraeso - new missions land has been bought on which the Christians from Mpraeso and Obimpekurom are at work - the Christians from Atibie have their own chapel on their mission land. This is partly because of tension between the Christians and the Obimpekurom people over a charge of murder preferred against Joseph Sesu, the Presbyter of the Mpraeso Christians. He had been seen in a part of the forest with his gun on the same day that an Mpraeso man his shot. It soon turned out, however, that the Obimpekurom people were doing their best to get this notable Christian found guilty and the missionaries spent some time in the various court proceedings in which it turned out that Sesu had not shot his gun that day, and that he was already at home when a shot, presumed to be the one which killed the man, was heard. The Kwahuhene sent the case to Accra, but after an ‘unbelievably short hearing' he was sent back a free man. The Christians have even gone so far as to fear being poisoned now, however, hence their business to leave Obimpekurom. Obo - Obrecht estimates Obo's population at 5,500, and that of Tweneduruase at 1,500. The new catechist is Thomas Hall, a young man, in the early months of 1898 marrying Augustine Meyer. He has 7 Christian pupils and 2 heathens in the school - one old woman was baptised in the course of the year, while on the other hand 2 Christians died, and 3 were excluded. One of these was a woman who was caught stealing yams from a plantation - partly because of the anger of the townspeople at the whole community because of this she was not only excluded, but also had to walk around the town preceded by a Christian ringing a bell and shouting at intervals to the people to know that because of the theft she had been excluded. The Obo people have started to have a new chapel erected because the adult men are mostly away on the rubber trade, and because in any case Kwahu people do not know how to build in swish, they have brought people in from Krobo to do the work. Several young men have built their houses on mission land in the course of the past year. Akwasihu - no baptisms and two deaths, one of a leper. The community responded to the call to build their houses on mission land only when it was threatened to celebrate the Communion no more till they did. The new catechist Dwamena is energetic, and has built a model road from the village to his house. He has managed to collect 7 pupils for a school, but the chief here (as in Tweneduruase and Obo) has responded to requests for pupils only with promises. Asante Akim - Altogether over 240 Christians, and a fair number of catechumens. The first (perhaps Kwabi) local agent sent to Asante Akim returned after a short period and said that the people were so lazy, corrupt, and apathetic, that there would never be Christians there. They are not so industrious as the Kwahus, like the Akims they work in the forest, collecting rubber, which gives them enough money to enable them to spend a lot of time without working. But his forecast about Christian progress has been put to shame. In -Bompata a new chapel has been roofed, and 24 adults and 20 children baptised. Many of these are from deep in the interior - the 'Hausa lands', brought to Asante Akim as slaves. 18 Christians have moved away from Bompata in the course of the year, most have returned to places where they were resident earlier. Catechist Boateng is pleased with the work of the new teacher Isaak Kwakye, and regrets the damage caused by the 'fall' of the earlier teacher M. Donko. He (Boateng) enjoys great respect and trust in Asante-Akim. In Agogo there are 31 catechumens, some of whom have begun to build their houses on the mission land. Being away so much on rubber trading they have not come forward in baptismal instruction very much. Several important men have become catechumens. There is much struggle between the chief and Catechist Meyer, and indeed the chief and the Christians generally. Patriensa - only 3 baptisms, 2 of old schoolboys, and one of the wife of a Christian. 2 Christians were excluded through sexual misdemeanours. Dwaso - after the large increase in the previous year numbers stationary - mission land has been built, but Assistant Catechist Doama has not building going on it very successfully, and indeed is asking for extra money to help build his own house. In Odumase things have taken a turn for the better with the death of the old and hostile chief, and the appointment of a new one who it seems has been for a time in Akwapim and understands rather more of the implications of the presence of the mission. He has cleaned the path to the teacher's house, is setting out to repair it, and since there is also a catechumen there the missionaries propose to transfer to Odumase Teacher W. Atara from Patriensa, and replace him by Assistant Catechist J. Amoa from Obogu. In Obogu there has been a teacher for a year, but he still lives in a dirty rented room, and has hardly any pupils. Of his 4 catechumens, only one - a cripple - is serious. So they have decided to take the teacher away again, the cripple will go to Dwaso to live, and when the Obogu people protested they set as minimum conditions for the re-installation of a teacher that he should have a proper house built for him by the town, and 20-30 children actually collected for the school. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..137 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Obrecht's Report for the Year 1897 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: February 1897 Proper date: February 1897 Description An account of the resource Includes a request for £12 to cover the costs of replacing the Abetifi Mission House fence, never renewed since first put up. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..129 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Station Conference Minutes 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: 05.02.1897 Proper date: 05.02.1897 Description An account of the resource Is a protest against the ruling which he has just heard of, that Kwahu boys in the Begoro Middle School will in future have to provide their own money for food. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.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: 21.07.1897 Proper date: 21.07.1897 Description An account of the resource In this half year there were 106 pupils - the first time the numbers had passed 100 - and the building put up in 1894 is already too small. 26 of this number are girls, 65 boys in the boarding section. Of the boys whose home is in Abetifi 20 have parents in the mission station, and 16 come from the heathen town. Jost remarks that he can see no difference between the two, and that the schoolboys are really very like those in Europe - perhaps a bit more stubborn and crafty. At the beginning of the year they uncovered – apparently with the help of pupils in the senior class who had erected the night-time movements involved in enjoying the booty – a formally organised band of hen-thieves among some heathen pupils - they were expelled, though Jost was very sorry to do this in view of the fact that they would return to heathen homes. The scholars planted a maize planatation only after constant supervision, but built the fence so badly and looked after it so apathetically that there was no harvest at all - the sheep and goats had damaged it too badly. He learned from this that his African boys have little interest in working, and it is a difficult problem for a teacher to bring his pupils to any understanding of the worth of work. 'We want to make these youths not only Christian and pious, but also hard-working members of their nation. We follow the Evangelical principles through Christianity to work.’ Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..133 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Jost's Report on the Abetifi School in the First Half of 1897 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: 20.08.1897 Proper date: 20.08.1897 Description An account of the resource Includes his outline plans for the Evangelists’ School. He has found few people living as simple Christians with some earlier education - he names the three as Chr. Kwasi Bo from Abetifi, Jos. Obeng from Kukurantumi, Imm. Badu from Akim Akropong. All three married. Kurz, from the Begoro school has also sent him the names of 8 pupils who might go into this kind of further education. An article by Perregaux in Le Missionaire 1897(pp 86-87) contains some information about Abetifi and the day of penitence celebrated recently (Letter dd. 4 October 1897). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..131 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 08.11.1897 Proper date: 08.11.1897 Description An account of the resource Reports, up to September, a serious drought, with foodstuff being brought into Abetifi from many hours away. He himself ascribes the lack of rain to the cutting down of the forest in Kwahu, partly in pursuit of food farms (the average length of work on a particular farm is 2-3 harvests, and then a fallow period of 4-5 years - they need to work more rationally with manure). They have also planted extensive coffee plantations in recent years. He describes the day of thanksgiving and penitence - the women brought gifts in kind, most of the men brought silver coins. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..134 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Obrecht to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 20.03.1897 Proper date: 20.03.1897 Description An account of the resource Reports Clerk's expedition to Krakye and the need to take up the opening quickly - Pastor Hall once reported that the young people had long been waiting for a teacher, and that many were sighing under the oppression of the fetish. So theyshould go to work to take this yoke off their necks, and bring in the day of freedom for the people sighing under Dente as well. He also reports the reactions of Clerk and Martin to Ramseyer's report that the English officials believed that the slave trade had moved from Kintampo to Krakye. Clerk had written that it was a fact that slave-selling goes on in Kete, not so much in the market as in the houses. Over the whole area buying and selling goes on unchecked. The people thought that German regulations over slavery were simply directed to seeing that the he were not badly handled. Martin pointed out that he German emancipation involved the Government paying the owner a certain sum, and the slave then working this off through employment with the Government. This is not much liked by women and the old, and though they can flee onto English soil, this is not easy. Müller writes in conclusion that it was high time the German regime followed the English example, and got itself out of its alliance with the smuggling and so forth which this amount of slavery involved. Under the counter the merchants are in cahoots with the colonial officials, and the former do not want slavery abolished. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..184 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VIII. - 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: 14.07.1897 Proper date: 14.07.1897 Description An account of the resource Mohr's recommendation of Tapa as a European Station was not widely backed - even before he landed at Accra Pfisterer met the veteran Rottmann en route for Europe who expressed himself strongly against Tapa and wanted to know why they were not setting up straight away in Tsantso. The main point against Tapa seems to have been that the two settlements there were small, and that in any case the people spent a lot of their time scattered on farms. The chances of getting food easily to feed missionaries and boarding pupils were slim. Also Pfisterer was most unimpressed with the Tapa peoples’ reaction to his preaching. He spoke about life, death, and judgement - they listened as if they had never heard before, and at the end promised all sorts of things. But Clerk was there, and he knew they had been preach to many times, and had made many promises. Another point against them was that they had bad relations with the rest of Buem, including the chief in Borada, so that it would be difficult to get scholars. Akpafo is preferable (Worawora ruled out because of the water supply) especially on account of being larger and a settlement where people worked the whole time. But Pfisterer would like to look at Tschantscho before making up his mind, or before the Mission commits itself. In a subscript Clerk writes that Akpafo is no better and no worse than Tapa from the point of view of communications with the rest of Buem - there is a road from Tapa to Aka. Müller argues that Pfisterer has not studied the situation long enough. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Pfisterer's Report on the Problem should an Additional Mission be built in Buem Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 21.07.1897 Date late: 30.08.1897 Proper date: 21.07.1897-30.08.1897 Description An account of the resource They go over the same ground mainly as Müller (see No. 186). The only social consideration brought into focus appears to be the widespread request for teachers. Martin gives an account of the routes which might be exploited were the station built in Akpafo. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..187-189 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Subscripts from Mohr, Lochmann and Martin to Pfisterer's Suggestion 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: 15.07.1897 Proper date: 15.07.1897 Description An account of the resource Has had to train local people as shingle-splitters; has been able to bring two carpenters and two sawyers from Worawora and Kpalime. Wages - for a carpenter's apprentice 6d-9d a day, for a carpenter 1/8d. The sawyers have gone off home again, however, and the local people have little wish to learn such a demanding skill; even if he lets it be known 'by the drums' how many people he wants to work for him next day, people don't come - he has to go round and talk to them personally, and even then they will often only work for an hour or two. Visitors from Anyanga and Pesi come to look at this new type of house. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..190 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.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: 10.11.1897 Proper date: 10.11.1897 Description An account of the resource Including a short biography of Catechist Awere by Müller. He was born of Christian parents in Akropong in 1860, and his work had been entirely in the Akropong Middle School and the Anum community. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..198 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Catechist Awere's Ordination 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: 28.11.1897 Proper date: 28.11.1897 Description An account of the resource Announces the almost complete destruction of his property in a fire at Bismarckburg. Inter al his cloth and grey baft had been destroyed, and so was his store of which he was using since the people will not accept English or German money. The fire was probably caused by sparks from the grass burning around the station. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..199 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mischlich to the Gold Coast Conference