Includes the point that the German Government official in Krakye has offered to send him ex-slave children for his school; that the chief of Agba wants to send a son to the school in Akropong, that he was being brought a large number of illnesses and…
Writes that one argument against having a mission station in Krakye town is that it is inadvisable to have a mission station near a government post. He also offers estimates of the numbers in the tribes to the north and northeast of Buem, though…
Reports the death of an Akim merchant in Katsenke died while drunk and everyone believed that he had died because of the drink (liquor). His two wives were there and had shaved their heads. The corpse was wrapped in 'a coloured heathen cloth', with a…
Has had to train local people as shingle-splitters; has been able to bring two carpenters and two sawyers from Worawora and Kpalime. Wages - for a carpenter's apprentice 6d-9d a day, for a carpenter 1/8d. The sawyers have gone off home again,…
He has 3 adult ex-slaves with him (elderly men) and 4 ex-slave children. Enough temu-speaking people come through Adele for him to have learned to carry on ordinary conversation in the language.
A general report on events in Atwati and Adele. On the capture of the fetish priest of Buruku at Siare by the Germans, Mischlich repeats material already reported to Basel with certain additions: Mischlich himself had been involved in a riot in Siare…
Offers two instances of 'rescue operations' in which he had been involved: (a) A woman of Dofoli was returning from Blitta where she had been present at a funeral customs with her children when she was captured by a Blitta man. Her children had been…
An accompanying letter to the report No. 180. He had had a German Government official living-in Bismarckburg with him for 4 weeks - this man had used 'every opportunity' to recommend his missionary work to the people. The priest-king of Siare was…
A 35 page report of a journey into Tschantscho, with a detailed map (see No. 181). This account is partly printed in Heidenbote 1896 p94-95, as also in Missionsmagazin 1897, p188ff and 249. Additional material: Under his comments for 25th Jun, his…
A letter on the practical economics of Adele. He writes that there is very little food to be bought - a lot of the Adele people themselves earn their living in the rubber trade and there is little surplus. Meat is hard to obtain - you see some cows,…
Arriving in Adele at the beginning of February 1896 he discovered that Smallpox had broken out, and the villages were deserted because all the people had fled to their farms. Mischlich himself was able to avert a battle between the Adele people and…
His house servants are people sent to him from Adele and Krakye by Lieutenant von Doering. He has given up drinking beer and wine except when ill or on special occasions. Partly because of cost (a bottle a day would cost 425 Marks each year simply to…
At the end of a report about his return journey to Africa are the following points: - During his furlough he learned soldering. He has a picture of the Kaiser and his wife in his house. He remarks that it is no good beating school children a lot and…
a) The first catechism of the Wesleyan Methodists. Second edition 1896, corrected proofs, 24 loose leaves; b) Gbomo Tsui. Translated from the Twi language into Ga or Akra, Basel 1896, corrected proofs, 54 lose leaves; c) Another bundle of proofs of…
Partly by other missionaries: a.) Die Ringkämpfe in Kamerun und die Stellung unserer Christengemeinden zu denselben, K. Stolz, handwritten copy of a report by K. Stolz on wrestling matches in Kamerun and the attitude taken by Christian congregations…
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