Mainly concerning the future of the West Indians. After three month everyone must have made up his mind whether to return or to stay. Those remaining shall get stone houses (size and way of building laid down). They shall be encouraged to plant, not…
betr. Uersetzungsfragen in der Gemeindeordnung, 1899, 4 S., MS - / d. 5th Dec. 1899, on translation questions in relation to the congregational regulations., in German, on translation questions concerning the congregational regulations. …
It encloses a 3 pp. English letter from CMS headquarters in London dd. 14th Feb. 1880 about the legal position of converted young women who were married as children to Hindu husbands, and a 5 p. English Memorandum from Graeter, evidently on the same…
Final accounts of the building of the station. The protocol asks for permission to build a teacher's house, since Dako is planning to marry shortly which will make the catechists' house no longer an adequate lodging for him.
About the various households of the missionaries. How the work is distributed. Notes about the religion: Nyankopong-Asase-Bosomprame and his two sons: Kyengku(Obosomase-fetish) and Oda (the most cruel and most feared son of Bosompra). Osiawu: fetish…
Prince Ansah communicates the visit of Rev Mr Gommenginger to Kumasi - he did not reveal the intentions of the Roman Catholic missionaries in regard to the place. Prince Ansah thinks, (though he offers no reasons for this) that now is the time to…
The first half mcstly reports the proceedings of the Akim Synod. The 2/3d church tax was put before the Synod as a new measure. The inspector's journey into Akim coincided two deaths - Mrs Buck and Missionary Krauss. Praetorius was also quite ill…
Realizes his fault. Asks for readmission. Brought to this by experiences in Ussu (almost murdered by Ussu people, threatened by Hyenas) on the sea capsided in Canoe at Tantumship on sandbank in Channel before that long time no wind near Cape Verde…
Letter from G. E. Phillips, Foreign Secretary, London Missionary Society, to K. Hartenstein in Basel about a communion cup in the hands of his family which had been looted in Cameroon during the first world war
Reports the arrival that afternoon of the missionaries Hornberger and Müller from Waya. The station at Ho is totally deserted. A Ho or Peki man who has escaped from Asante captivity reports seeing the Anum missionaries bound in an Asante camp. Br.…
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