369 20 77972 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: 23.03.1898 Proper date: 23.03.1898 Description An account of the resource Concerning the political situation in Asante – their Kumasi catechist had asked him to write to Accra that no more loads should be sent up - any day things could blow up. The children living with them in the houses, and in the slave home, are full of fear. The teacher in Odeso has sent a message that anyone there over the age of 20 not possessing a weapon will be strongly punished. He himself saw not long before, when on a journey to Ofinso, 2 groups of between 50 and 60 slaves(?) with weapons, powder, knives and nkrante (short swords). He also adds tout court that one problem for the mission is that the people are like the body-slaves of their chiefs. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VII..148 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Zellweger 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: 25.01.1899 Proper date: 25.01.1899 Description An account of the resource Over the whole station area the increase in the Christian community in the year was 220. Nevertheless movement into the church is still a matter of individual decisions though among the great mass of the people many acknowledge the truth they are preaching and recognise God as the giver of the fruits of the earth they will not move out of their traditional ways. The people have had occasion to recognise the signs of God's anger in the course of the year - locusts in November and towards the end of the year small-pox (which in part accounts for the high number of deaths among the Christians). 'Is it not a wise proceeding of God's that his kingdom here grows so slowly, and so much like the early stages of the growth of the mustard seed? Here in this area there must be much more Christian understanding, and much more Christian practice in the life of the people before the masses can turnover a new leaf and be accepted into the Christian community. Should, for example, the new chief of Abetifi and his people want to become Christians - we certainly long for this, and have often spoken to the chief about it - it would not be possible for us and our helpers to go through seeing that all the people were thoroughly prepared for baptism, nor would we be able to see that all their family situations were arranged in accordance with Christian patterns. How many heathen ways, and how much worldliness would be brought into such a Christian community – perhaps these forces would even gain the upper hand.’ In Abetifi the presbyters (John Ata the senior) are given a good report. The community bought the house of a Christian living away from Abetifi as evangelist for £8, and also have themselves put up a new school house as big as the earlier one to house the increasing numbers. Offerings (including the Mission Anniversary offering) almost doubled. Christians begging for re-acceptance are being asked to pay the church tax for the period of their absence. Almost half the adult male members are away from Abetifi - most of them working in Kumasi (Ramseyer adds the marginal comment that several are working on the Kumasi mission station, but others are earning a living elsewhere, and some of these are not living as they should.). A women’s society has been set up, meeting every week after evening prayers on Sunday - the women taught songs and hymns and shows a biblical picture which is then explained to them. The suggestion that they should be fined for absence was turned down, but the most regular attenders were invited to a tea party. Sunday School held - 20 youths and girls were compulsory attenders, it having been decided that no young person could stay on the station who did not attend either the regular or the Sunday school (Obrecht mentions heathen children staying with Christian families on the station as falling under this, rule.). It was also attended, mainly for the sake of literacy instruction by young fellows from the heathen village. 7 people died in the course of the year, 2 of smallpox, both children. In the heathen town almost one person died daily. On the station many caught it, including Perregaux – the lymph which they asked for from the Colonial Regime arrived rather late, but they distributed it with some success. In Abetifi itself one of the measures adopted to limit the spread of the illness was the prohibition of firing of guns at the death of people. Also hens were sent out of the town. Over the whole of Kwahu people tried to infect themselves with the sore of those already suffering from the illness in the hope that they would thereby be protected at least to the extent of having a lesser attack. The missionaries warned the Christians against this but they did hot trust enough in their Protector and many who had this treatment were dangerously ill. 8 members were excluded, 2 voluntarily when they went to live in Abetifi town, 2 more for adultery, and 3 for unbiddableness. Others were excluded from the Communion, including two men who had distributed liquor to their neighbours at an obsequy gathering - they inter al were asked to bring up a load from Accra without payment, asked to do double this if only they could be allowed to take Communion, but were refused on the grounds that presence at communion cannot be 'earned' by work or bought by money. 16 people moved away – this includes 4 boys who were transferred to the Middle School in Begoro, 3 fante pupils at the evangelist's school who did not return after the mid-year vacation, and a mother and a daughter who have fled to their home in Fante, in the case of the daughter deserting a husband sick with a chronic illness. All attempts to locate them from Nsaba have failed. The increase of 56 was made up of 10 adult baptisms, 16 baptisms of children of Christian parents, 4 re-acceptances, and 24 pupils moving to Abetifi to take join the Boarding School or the Evangelists' School. Bukuwura - a place with a small congregation visited fortnightly - lost a married pair excluded through too much quarrelling. Mpraeso - the work held back by strife between the catechist (W. Preko) and his wife - she at one stage going to live with her heathen relatives in Abetifi. Examples given of the results of the catechist's pre-occupation - the catechumens at Mpraeso not properly prepared for baptism, and a young married couple in Atibie going to a fetish priest in order to be advised how to end their barrenness. Obo - 5 Christians had to be excluded - 5 children of Christian parents were baptised, 2 Christians moved to live in the town, and one excluded Christian was re-accepted. No baptisms of adult catechumens - they like most of the Christian men spent most of the year away from the station in order to gather and sell rubber. As a result some of the houses on the station are falling into ruin, and the chapel started two years ago is not half finished. One of the exclusions was of a key young man who had learned to read, and during the absence of Catechist Th. Hall in Akwapim to get married had been given the job of holding the morning and evening services. However during this period his uncle died, and he was persuaded to become head of the family. Mose Ofusu has since fallen into poligamy and is practicing as a fetish priest, though his wife has since asked for re-acceptance. Another (unnamed), the earliest Christian in Obo had to be excluded for his unbiddableness. He had long hoped to be chosen presbyter, and indeed had exercised an irregular authority in the congregation. Obrecht notes that all the Obo people were absent for long periods either on their farms at the foot of the mountains, or plying the rubber trade. Akwasiho - little progress - Obrecht says of Akwasiho that the people are Kwahus and Asantes who live without political order. There is no chief there. Asante-Akim – general progress, and a great welcome for travelling preachers. Bompata - Boateng ordained in the course of the year, 38 adult heathens baptised, and 27 heathen children, almost all resident on the station land. Among the newly baptised are many who were brought from the interior as slaves - 'you notice how happy they are now in their freedom, and how busily they build their houses on the station. They are living as it were in their own village, under the protection of their Lord and Saviour, they are safe and need to fear no more.’ The Christian village is almost as large as the heathen town, and the chief of the latter is - understandably - steadily more bitter against Boateng. He has taken to living away from Bompata, and now the heathens too come to Boateng for guidance. There has been a young man from Koforidua in Bompata in the year posing as a Wesleyan, and offering instruction in English. The Basel Mission school has caused anxiety, with only one rather slow teacher, and 4 classes and 43 pupils. Agogo - difficulties with the chief. This reported already in the course of the year and continued in secret. 12 people baptised, not as many as there might have been. Agogo people too have been way gathering rubber, another candidate had not started to build a house on the station, and yet another, Pepra, had his baptism postponed apparently because he would not promise to send all his children to school (he had a heathen wife, and the daughter's schooling was especially a matter for argument). Patriensa - 9 baptisms of people whose home Patriensa is not - otherwise few visible results, not even many people at street preaching. If no progress in another year the station will be given up. Dwaso - 19 baptisms (including 10 adults) but no school in spite of Boamma's efforts. Odumase - the first baptism celebrated in the year, and 7 young men as catechumens beginning to build houses on the station. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VI..132 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Obrecht's Report in his Section of the Abetifi Mission District in 1898 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: 11.02.1899 Proper date: 11.02.1899 Description An account of the resource Reports a disappointing year in the Evangelists' School - three pupils leaving at the beginning of the second term. They have made a cocoa plantation and a corn plantation - he tried potatoes but the rain stopped too early, and they failed. Reviews the Evangelists - he is prepared to send out to assignments after the first year: Josef Obeng from Akim - an older pupil, in any case somewhat trained by Sam. Rottmann. Not very conscientious, though Perregaux noticed more industry in his second term and he had given up drinking palm wine. Daniel Abokyi - a fante, who gets a good report as industrious, and evidently happy at the thought of an evangelist's work. Daniel Kwasi Bo. None of them showed as much evidence of inner life as Perregaux would have like, but that is not something which can be taught, he concludes On the outstations committed to him: Pepease - a better year, with 5 adult heathen baptised and 2 re-accepted and the erring elder of last year having paid off his debts by working in Kumasi. The chapel is nearly finished. A young baptismal candidate from Perregaux suffered damage from which he subsequently died when three of them were carrying a heavy beam at Abetifi, but died a holy death. He had earlier come away from his (Christian) brother on a trading journey because he wanted to return to Pepease to have his baptismal instruction. An ex-slave now married to a Christian had to be held back from baptism because she would not promise to send all her children to school. Nkwatia - a congregation which had increased, and was also building itself nice swish hoses with shingle roofs. The Nkwatiawhene had been panic stricken when a Government’s Commissioner had visited Kwahu over the choice of a new Kwahuhene, because 2 years before he had been accused of murder, and though a government investigation had found him not guilty Perregaux evidently felt that this had been a mistake, and certainly he exhibited every sign of bad conscience including sending gifts to Perregaux and Ramseyer and asking them to intercede on his behalf. Bowi died during the year. A previously excluded -presbyter was re-accepted, having inter al refused a sub-chief's stool as evidence of his determination to be attached to the church, losing £20 in the process. Asakraka - the exchange of H.K. Safori for Tieku in the previous year had had good effects. The chief now thinks Safori is a wicked man come from Akim to destroy his town - on the other hand the number of people in the community had risen from 49 to 57 in the course of the year. They had therefore had to choose a presbyter. Agyekum, an elderly Christian, had seemed the obvious choice the congregation already respecting him as Presbyter in practice. Perregaux however heard from Safori that Agyekum drank a lot, even liquor, so he refused to take this nomination even when it was repeated. He remarks en passant that like Bepong, Asakraka is a town of debtors, having to send many children as pawns to Mpraeso or Obomeng. Beponq - a major set-back in that the local chief was destooled, then the stool debts were paid by rich Christians from the royal family, then a nephew of this man - also a Christian – was nominated by the heathen as the new chief, and after a few days and what Perregaux evidently thought were token delays accepted. He claimed he would still serve God. Perregaux told him he had taken the devil for his master and when, indeed he drank and danced before a fetish at his enstoolment he and his uncle – who was taken to have played a duplicitous role - were excluded, being followed out of the community by their households. Perregaux takes this as a lesson in care in baptising. Boakye at Bepong is too keen to get people baptised. He also contrasts it with the still and surer reaction of the Abetifi elder John Ata when faced with the possibility of being made Kwahuhene. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux' Report for 1898 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: 13.01.1899 Proper date: 13.01.1899 Description An account of the resource In a long passage about the experiences of a young missionary Jost remarks how rewarding it is to be involved with youth in schools - for there one is helping to modify the way of life of the people. During the year the numbers of pupils increased from 109 to 111, with 55 boarding pupils (27 from the Abetifi community, the rest from outstations or from heathen families) and a further 15, mostly from outside Abetifi living with the missionaries and the rest of the station staff, and mostly in receipt of some financial help. The teaching personnel changed - Catechist Hansen being transferred to the Evangelists' school, and S. Agyei, the first Kwahu to pass through the seminary, being appointed teacher Evangelists, both to the Boarding School and the Evangelist School. For a time the two youngest classes were given over to the Evangelist School pupils for practice teaching, but this did not work at all well, and eventually J. Atua was posted to Abetifi for this work. As a result of these changes, that the scholarly achievements were satisfactory, discipline was not, missionaries often having to call pupils back to their classrooms. Theft was also a problem (Jost cites 3 cases, including one of pineapples) - only two boys ran away, however, one was sent baok from Kumasi, the other fled because he had been found out as the thief of someone's palm-wine. 8 hours per week are given to the teaching of 'pure' religious subjects - bible knowledge, texts etc. Jost writes that, other than English, no subject awakes so much interest, and feels that Catechist Adaye who does this teaching, has the right gift for awakening that interest. Instances are given of this - a boy who no longer needed Barth's Bible Stories because he was reading the stories out of the bible direct. Another could be examined successfully on every story in Acts 28. Another question absorbed the pupils for several days until the question was brought before the missionaries knew the answer - the harmonising of Mat 11 and 5 Moses 34.10 They had no luck with the farming - a load of coffee costs more to transport to Accra than thee could raise for it there. A corn farm was destroyed by a swarm of locusts. Jost reports an instance of Government support for the schools on the occasion of Hull's visit to Kwahu to be involved with the choice of a new chief. They had been having difficulty when Christian children were removed from school either (a) by a separated wife of an ex-polygamist, now Christian, whose mother the child was (b) by mothers or fathers who were excluded from the station and took their child with them. In a speach after the choice of a chief Mr. Hull praised the work of the mission, and set forth a law that such parents may in the future not take their children away from the school, there was no question of punishing the child. The use of products of humans with small-pox as protection against the illness was promoted by a so called ‘medicine-man’. In the Obo school some movement was achieved by Perregaux who on his return to Abetifi refused to accept two hens sent him by the Obohene unless he also sent scholars to the school. 16 were sent, with a written undertaking from the Obohene that they would stay in the school - but only 9 remain, and they are all youths, and it is difficult to begin anything with people already at that age. A school was started in Bepong when it was felt that to have 37 Christian children of school age in the village with no school needed serious steps taken to correct the situation. On account of this teacher Safori was taken away from the Abetifi Boarding School. He started with some heathens among a school roll of 50, this has since declined, and the heathens all left. In Pepease a somewhat similar situation exists - 27 Christian children of school age, and no teacher. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Jost's Report on the Boys' Boarding School in Abetifi and other Kwahu Schools in 1898 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: 25.01.1898 Proper date: 25.01.1898 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Sam Boateng's Report on the Spreading of the Gospel in Asante Akim 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: 03.01.1898 Proper date: 03.01.1898 Description An account of the resource A testimonial for Sam. Boateng in connection with the Abetifi missionaries' pressure for him to be ordained. In giving some idea of Boateng's success in Asante Akim Perregaux writes that the Asante Akim people have been able to gain an easy living from the rubber trade, and thereby have little liking for hard work, and therefore his having helped to bring about such a large of Christian house-building is very noteworthy. The Donko case caused him a lot of trouble too – the full story of the insults etc. which Boateng suffered can only be learned from him by repeated questions (Perregaux feels this is a very praiseworthy trait of Boateng), and after Donko's fall Boateng had to use every available means to prevent the young men taking after Donko. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VI..118 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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.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: 25.05.1898 Proper date: 25.05.1898 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VI..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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Catechist Sam. Boateng's Biography 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: 09.06.1898 Proper date: 09.06.1898 Description An account of the resource Includes an application for £77 to cover extensive repairs needed by the Abetifi mission house - including the roof. There is trouble over the adultery fees regulation in the Abetifi community. In the 1894 Twi district conference it was agreed that wives guilty of adultery should be fined £2, this to be put into a special church fund, and not given to the husband. This has happened in some cases, but by and large this regulation is abhorred by the church members, and also they cite cases occurring in Akim and Akwapim where husbands have received the adultery fee. The missionaries wish this regulation could be changed - adultery fees are 'dirty money', and the Abetifi presbyters argue that it is very rarely that a husband will deliberately put a wife in the way of adultery in order to pocket the fee, and when this happens, it is usually not difficult to see that this has been the case. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Abetifi Station's 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: 24.06.1898 Proper date: 24.06.1898 Description An account of the resource The party about 50 strong - the date before Christmas 1897. An English officer from the interior had lodged with the Abetifihene the night before - the pupils sang to him en route through the town, and he in turn dashed Jost a few silver coins for the night's fufu. In Aduammoa there were few people to preach to. The announcement of their coming was by trumpet and the songs of the pupils. Nkwatia - they were successfully able to draw people away from an obsequy custom (the instruments used in the music to attract the people were flute, mouth organ, and trumpet). Bepong - Jost describes the large congregation at evening prayers not wanting to leave, but staying for an hour exchanging hymns, and telling stories. The next morning 4 speakers had an uninterrupted opportunity to address a crowd of hundreds, since the chief of Kwahu had called several chiefs to Bepong to consult over the problem of arresting a libertine who had made the bush around Bepong so dangerous that the women no longer liked to go for water. It was the missionaries who had reminded the Kwahu chief of his duty to secure the man. On the second day they travelled through Asakraka to Tafo, where Jost writes the respect for the local fetish grows and does not - as everywhere else in Kwahu - decrease. (This is Buruku). From Tafo they climbed to the foot of the Buruku rock then returned to Tafo where they found that the people who had promised to prepare them food had not done so. They therefore had to march to Bukukuwa in the dark (Jost remarks with no loss of morale - the pupils singing all the way) and on arrival were warmly welcomed not only by the Christians, but also the chief. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VI..125 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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Jost's Report on a School Journey in Kwahu 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: 01.07.1898 Proper date: 01.07.1898 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VI..126 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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Sam. Boateng's Half-Yearly Report on Bompata 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: 07.07.1898 Proper date: 07.07.1898 Description An account of the resource Concerning progress in the school for evangelists. Martin Ako has had to be sent away from the school - he was poorly gifted, and also had the wrong attitudes; he was looking for a comfortable post (This was the ex-Congo pupil). The report goes through the individual pupils giving information on their performance, not their past history. About 2/3 Perregaux thought were clearly likely to go into service as evangelists. The evangelists' school had been attacked by the other missionaries and Perregaux agrees that its material is not good. He had thought that the other stations could provide 5 good candidates as Abetifi had done and that it has no future. But their immediate need for agents was severe. In a last paragraph Perregaux reports on the events in Bepong. The presbyter who paid the stool debts was John Boadi and the debts 1000 francs. In the penultimate paragraph he reports the death of the - still relatively young - Khahuhene. The previous Sunday he had been to a service, Perregaux had warned him that he should be converted, he smiled, and said he was a Christian because he served God, and would speak no more about the matter. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VI..124 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.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: 22.07.1898 Proper date: 22.07.1898 Description An account of the resource Of the two roads from Kwahu to Asante-Akim the one through Obo, Akwasihu to Bompata is the better. - being much more travelled. To avoid going the same road both to and from Asante-Akim, however, the missionaries usually-travel into Asante Akim among the other track, through Abene to Agogo. In this direction you rarely meet anyone - only occasionally a hunter, or a party of travellers. An overnight stop has to be made in one of a couple of caves known to the local people, which stand near the track with room for 8-10 men in them. Reporting on the condition of affairs on his last visit to Agogo, Obrecht writes that there were hardly any adult male Christians or catechumens there - they had all been sent by the Agogohene in response to government’s command for 100 carriers, to carry telegraph materials from Kumasi towards Kintampo. All the Christians had been sent, instead of an equal proportion of Christians and heathens. The missionaries had been on the point of protesting when the Christians all went, but this was the second such event. Earlier one Captain Boyd had gone to Agogo to settle a long-standing land case with Afwidiem, and on needing to go to inspect the land (on the Afram plains) had needed carriers for food etc. The Agogo chief excused himself in the grounds that most of the young men were absent; but suggested that the Christians be pressed into service, the English officer could do that, even if he himself could not. As a result they were summarily pressed into service, though Obrecht remarks that Boyd's judgement in the land case surprised distressed people in the towns around Agogo, and that he seems a bad character - he has had to return to Adore to answer a charge of depriving some rubber carriers of their load. Moreover, Ramseyer complained to the Resident in Kumasi about the latter event, the Agogohene had been privately warned against unjust acts towards the Christians - Ramseyer's defence of the Christians against the Agogohene's charges of disobedience (which were cited by Captain Boyd to defend his actions) were apparently accepted. The Christians are not at peace with this; however, fearing that since the Agogohene has got away with this sort of thing once, his persecutions may continue. In Patriensa the evangelist from Obogu is now stationed (J. Amoa) while the Patriensa teacher has been posted to Odumase (W. Atara). From Obogu Amoa was accompanied by two catechumens - one an ex-slave from far in the interior, and one a cripple called Osae (Christian name now James). The latter lives in Amoa's house, and helps out over the problems which have arisen since Amoa became a widower. In Dwaso Obrecht found everyone troubled about an event which had occurred a few days before - a woman out of Asante had visited relatives in the town - and been found in the middle of one night hanging near Assistant Catechist J. Boamma's house. Obrecht obviously feels the most important impact was on Boamma's wife who, given to strife and causing him much trouble now refused to go to the farm alone as a result, and also refused to sleep in the house alone at night. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VI..128 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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VIII. 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-01.69 - Ghana 1898 Title A name given to the resource Anum 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: 16.02.1899 Proper date: 16.02.1899 Description An account of the resource The report is printed almost in its entirety in the Annual Report for 1899, pp67ff Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Report for the Year 1898 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: 28.03.1898 Proper date: 28.03.1898 Description An account of the resource Reports that the war-danger has been significantly reduced - the chiefs are not united as they were two months ago, but the proposed leader has refused to undertake his role, and the notable village of Ofinso is refusing to participate. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Postcard from Zellweger 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: 07.04.1898 Proper date: 07.04.1898 Description An account of the resource The letter is printed in full in Sklavenheim 1898, pp2-7. It is a general account of the progress of the slave-colony to date. There is a Ramseyer letter in Le Missionaire 1898, pp55-57. It does say that they had been advising the Sklavenfreund expedition that Kintampo would be the best place for their settlement - it had been the British Government who had advised Kumasi instead. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's First Letter of Contact with the Berne Sklavenheim Supporters 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: 28.09.1898 Proper date: 28.09.1898 Description An account of the resource Informs the Basel Committee that he has been able to buy a piece of land opposite the station on the other side of the Bantama Road - this was important because of the danger of being in close proximity with Fante liquor-bars. They received the property as a gift from the owner, and gave the ex-owner £1=10 in money, and a piece of cloth worth about 15/-. There is another Ramseyer letter about the freed slaves (not dated) printed in Sklavenheim. No I.3. He describes the housemother as doing the washing with native soap. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VII..162 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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.69.VII..163 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-01.69 - Ghana 1898: D-01.69.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Licence to occupy Land in Kumase (Copy) 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: 1899 Proper date: 1899 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.70 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 Title A name given to the resource Ghana 1899 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: 1899 Proper date: 1899 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.71 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 Title A name given to the resource Ghana 1899