Describing his January visit to Kibi. Flowers had been planted on Mrs Christaller’s grave, a low wall placed around it, a wooden cross erected, and an oil-palm planted. Christaller had found Culmann’s book on Christian ethics very interesting. Mader…
Concerns whether or not the Basel Mission should expand into the West - it looks like an evaluation of the work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society inter al.
Includes information about another slave, whose home-country was “Marrowa” where a dialect of Hausa is spoken. His master was an Asante who wanted to kill him because he could not carry a Ioad of salt. He fled to Akropong, but his master found out…
As with all his formal reports includes a discussion of his progress in learning twi. This one includes information on his informants – he has been endeavouring to meet people from many places in order to improve his grasp of the language, and among…
In a discussion of certain aspects of twi (bottom of the first page) Christaller takes an example from the village of Amono, 3 1/2 hours from Akropong. Noe, a future king of Osu has received from Christaller's old friend and informant Kofi Akotia a…
From a discussion with Süss about the relationship between the Gyadam and Asante dialects, reports that Süss reckoned the Gyadam people had come out of Asante about- 25 years before. Christaller has also been going through the history and other…
Remarks that it makes him sad to see land which god did not create to be empty unpeopled and uncultivated, and that the Akems export only Kopal varnish to the coast. Having met the chief and elders of Kibi he writes that several are well-disposed to…
Continues with the history of the Asafo-Kukurantumi land case. On 12th October 1865 the Kibi Christians woke the missionaries before dawn to appeal to them to intervene, because there was going to be a battle between Kukurantumi on the one side, and…
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