Confirms that he spent this time in Adele in bed. Having read some of David Asante's reports on the area he considers that the knowledge of Twi must have reduced considerably in the intervening decade. There was an Asante ‘Governor’ (Statthalter) in…
Laments the frequently changing personnel of the station - Munz for Huppenbauer, Sakyi for Ntow and Okanta, but includes a passage on Sakyi. Finding himself in that thickly clouded land, lying outside the protectorate where slavery and pawning were…
The first part of the report is taken up with complaints about the length of time which catechists Obeng and Sakyi have asked for their leave, and the fact that they have both overstayed their leave by a considerable length of time. Sakyi appears to…
Reporting a visit to Fankyeneko in the new year. The people had been unhappy about the arrangements for building the catechist’s house – they had hoped to earn money from the mission in this connection to pay off debts, which the mission's allowance…
A further discussion of the Adu case. One girl was the sister of Catechist Ntow, the other was a Begoro girl only one month baptised. Adu is now in his home town. Kukurantumi, and sadly not penitent - in fact Mohr is having to keep a special watch…
Reports the purchase of land in Anyinam, and his plans for the building of a catechists' house. The latter are opposed by Buck, Eisenschmid, and Buhl partly on the grounds that no catechist is earmarked for Anyinam, and partly because Mohr has…
Discussing the occurrence of the deaths at Begoro and Abetifi remembers how Inspector Josenhans had said in one of his lectures in the Missionhouse in Basel that each new station cost at least one life. Explaining the delay in presenting final…
He has been pioneering a new route down the mountain from Begoro to Dome. He used the Okra valley and the passabove it to cut down the climbing and make the gradients easier. A man can be carried all the way up his new path in a hammock - this was…
Accepts a Committee approval of expenditure for the building of the catechist's house in Fankyeneko and says he is sure the Christians of the town will work for the building of the house as soon as they see something is being done.
Partly printed in Heidenbote 1876 p33. The main material of interest in the printed passage is the number of candidates for baptism (21 men), the employment of 7 on the building, and the missionaries' determination that they should learn orderly and…
Discussing the problem of finding a labour force for building the Begoro mission buildings he points out that there is an advantage in teaching Akem people to do the jobs, since if you bring in strangers you have to pay their debts before bringing…
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