Concerning the dispute between the elder Piedu and Abr. Boamma over a slave. There had been enmity between Abr. Boama and the other slaves of Piedu before he became a Christian. After he became a Christian the young slave of his whom he had given to…
He describes his first impressions of Kibi. He comments that so far as he could judge the Christians in Kibi have a more childlike attitude to the missionaries than those on the other stations he visited en route for Kibi.
A report on the Basel Mission schools in the English Volta district. Anum - 75 children, 34 of them boarding boys, and overall increase of 13. He points out that only 41 pupils are actually from Anum. The coffee plantation brought little return in…
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…
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…
Reports the first visit by a Basel missionary to the Accra farming villages NW of Osu. The first one of any note is 8 hours away and that is probably the most important, Abodo. A visit by a missionary to these villages is apparently rare since the…
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).
Copy, better readable, added. Description of a visit to Teshi. Plan and description of the house of a merchant of Teshi called Afutu. Accompanying text: Afutu probably as much as 80 years old, had been very wealthy but had lost beauty with the…
Much of this report is taken up with the Durbar to celebrate the extension of English control on the coast – and is word for word identical with the Zimmerman quarter report No. 140.
Account of a 14 day stay at Abokobi, showing it to be used as the focus of mission activity in the farming villages around, at least as far as the already baptised were concerned. Communion celebrated for the Christians collected from the district on…
Preaching tour: Teshi – Pantanang – Adotaa – Pantang – Abokobi – Lutterodt’s Plantation etc. On p 2 a sketch plan of the plantation villages. The Danish map is all wrong. Description of Mr. Lutterodt's plantation. The letter contains a sketch map of…
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