Partly printed as an annex to the 1889 Annual Report, pp46ff. Additional material: They plan to build a small cistern on the station; there is already one in Odumase. Their masons seem all to have come from Akwapim. There is the usual trouble about…
Has no new news about the war - no mention of a campaign in August, only a report of the battle on July 13th, after which the Pekyi people, too, were tired of the fighting. Messages have just been sent by Dompre and the Anum 'King' to Accra, Akwapim…
An orthodox extended statement of the difficulties of working in Anum in the sense that no reactions are being obtained from the Anum people themselves. Following points: 1. Three times stated that clothes are a major concern of the Anum people – no…
His journey to the other Twi stations made difficult by the danger of travelling. His route: Anum-Pekyi, Pekyi-Abotia. At Abotia his Anum carriers were due to hand him over to Abotia carriers, who were to go with him on the route to Battor. But they…
Discussing the language question, he reports that not only their building workers, but also most of the house servants are Gas. Only a few of the station residents - including the boy who has been handed over to him, speak Twi. On the war there is…
The first part of this report is printed, more or less verbatim, in the 1867 Annual Report, pp 129-130. Unprinted material in the concluding sections: He describes a journey northwards from Anum. Preaching in Bose and Dame - in the latter they were…
In this (misfiled) report Müller reports considerable opposition when passing a fetish site which was not in Anum itself. The site consisted of 3 large round stones laid one on top of another, surrounded by a fence. When he get near a crowd of men…
The reports from Hall and Clark have the No. 129-130 and 138. He remarks over Clerk's report that a younger brother's remarks have to be taken carefully, .especially in reference to the Volta people who face strangers with distrust. Putting 5…
Statistics give four buildings: A house for two married missionaries, a store for trade goods, a range of rooms for the missionaries' servants, the catechist, the scholars, and a room 'outside the courtyard' used for the school. Three missionaries,…
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