Accept prohibition to give money on loan, why annual accounts late, what happened to the tools, goods received, about translation principles (p 3). Not pleased with the committee’s decision that no brother should be allowed home without the…
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.
About the new building. Arrowroot plantation very big, improved grinding and flower making, but where shall he go in future with all the flour? Coffee have now 1464 tree. Last year was dry, therefore not much yield (pp 1-2). He made a new garden. Got…
Has employed Thompson. Thompson had fallen so low that for a time nobody wanted to give him a job, he was near suicide. Hr. Lutterodt employed him. Thompson had been the reason why Locher entered in the Mission. He tried to contact him and has…
Extracts from his diary. Story of the fate of a Donko slave who was bought free by the missionaries and serves as horseman. He was a moslem, captured by the Ashanti, sold to Akim-to the coast. Thankful (pp 2-3). Sharp funeral sermon at the burial of…
Yam festival for Dade and Aktia (p 2). Heavy work: 13 people at table, expensive time. 10 servants. Shepherds neglect 70 sheep, so that 12-15 were lost or stolen (p 3). Journey to Ningo-Shai-Krobe-Akropong (pp 4 ff). Tema chief friendly, permits a…
Description of his sea Journey to Cape Coast to get his Ga catechism printed. Reaching the ship in the last minute, kindly received at Elmina and cape Coast. Good description of Rev. Freemann's plantation Beulah: Christian village, chapel, fine…
Baptism of converts and their character (pp 1-5) (Printed: Jahresbericht 1852, pp 243-267). Execution of a repentant murderer (pp 8-9). Visit to Tema. Impressed by the chief there and his noble behavior and clean house. Preaching there (pp 10-14).…
First Christian marriage at Akropong between converts (p 1). Rain comes at last, long dry period before. Discussion with an Akropong man. "Christianity is a deep water, you do not at once jump in, you want to measure the depth first", he said (p 3).…
Guinea worm and how they treat him (p 1). School: Much mechanical reading without understanding. Better to teach Ga first and then English (p 2). Description of the new hired mission house (p 3). Agressive evangelisation in Teshi (pp 5-6).
Extracts from his diary. Printed: Three burials (Heidenbote 1851 p 93) (pp 1-2). An attempt to milk their cows failed. He hired an elder mulatto who had been in Germany to look after the cows. He knew how to milk them and how to plough. Speaking to…
Most important parts printed in Jahresbericht 1852, pp 243-267. Vaccinating against small pox-without success, the serum spoiled (pp 1-2). Not printed: In the last four years improvements in the houses at Accra, glass windows introduced (p 13).…
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