By no means so opposed as Ramseyer to the idea, and points out that before the troubles in Akim there was a colony of runaway slaves from Kwahu on the station at Kukurantumi. These have since transferred themselves to Abokobi, where there is also a…
Printed apparently in full as an appendix to the Missions Annual report 1876 p. 92ff. Consists of a description of the station and the buildings thereon: an enumeration of the community not in any great detail, and a final paragraph about food…
Teacher Adu had to be expelled for adultery, and while catechist Ntow has worked well he has hadmany difficulties over getting married. His first intended was strongly suspected of having committed adultery with a catechist in Aburi, his second was…
The report is partly printed as an appendix to the Basel Mission Annual Report 1879, pp70-71. Looking back over the period in which they built the station, Mohr reckons that 'hundreds' of boys, young women, and men were involved in the work. In the…
The report is partially printed as an appendix to the Annual Report of the Basel Mission 1878 (p. 85ff). It is mostly phased in general terms. The Christian community has with difficulty been assembled on the quiet of the mission hill, away from the…
Concerning teacher Oforidee of Kukurantumi. Ata was wanting him to leave mission employment on the strength of having supported him for a year in the Wesleyan School in Cape Coast after he had voluntarily left the Middle School in Akropong. The…
Forwards the text of a letter from Imm. Boakye in reply to the instructions posting him to Tafo (?). He is willing to go anywhere he is commanded, but no Akim town wants someone who has been expelled by the Asuums, and has also refused to serve the…
It is conderned with administrative details especially in connection with the activities of the local agents. Anoff apparently arrived in Aburi only on 13th February, and has been given a 6 week vacation. The two schools were being carried on in…
Writes as Praeses of the Mission in Akwapim/Akim. Reporting the 'fall' of Teacher Adu in Begoro. For several months he had apparently been involved in sexual relations with two Christian girls, neither of whom knew the other was involved - nor did…
Concerning the out-station at Anyinam and the first baptisms there. A fairly big town, made bigger recently by the settlement of Juaben people around it. Judging by the head tax which Atta decided to raise last year, the number of inhabitants must…
In describing the background to his journey, he offers two reasons for the outbreak of the war in 1860 - (1) that the Gyadam people were working a new goldfield and would not give Atta of Kibi his customary 1/3 takings. (2) Agyeman refused to let…
There is a printed version of this report in Heidenbote 1882 pp 26ff, which covers the actual visit to Kumasi. Additional material: In talking about the preparations for the journey, Mohr says that Ramseyer had received reports from various people…
The report begins with a five page introduction about preparations and travelling techniques. Leaving Begoro he remarks that there is a pond in the course of the river Osubeng near the town, which is accounted a fetish - women pray to it for…
The bulk of this letter is printed in a Basel Mission pamphlet under the title “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Travelling Akropong-Kibi-Begoro Mohr mentions the following: At…
Thanks for promised tobacco pipes. About tools: found only half of the tools which should have been at Akropong. Sends coffee and arrowroot flour to Basel. Please send 1 lbs coffee to Jerusalem as seeds for brother Palmer.
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