Discussing his life so far on the Gold Coast, Dilger says that he has never been so happy in his life before as he is in Abetifi, despite fevers etc, and the death of the little Ramseyer child which affected him deeply. The six-fingered child was…
Again reports a preaching journey in mid-October. Amama - could not decide on which of his prepared texts to preach, but met a fetish priest in the village, and so told the story of the Ark in the Philistines temple, and the catechist following him…
The bulk of the letter is about his learning of the twi language, which he has tiled to do mainly by talking about secular topics. He does not think the Bible Translation is understood by many poople. He offers some proverbs which he has learnt.…
A summary report of his journey to Kumawu - for the full report see No. 94 below. He was interested to see if it was possible to travel in Asante without going to Kumasi first. It was, and he visited Konongo, Odumase, and Kumawu. In the villages of…
Report on his journey to Kuwamu. Kwabi accompanied him on the journey. The report starts after Obogu, Konogo and Odumase had been visited. Their decision to go to Kumawu seems to have been largely a matter of the difficulty of travelling (owing to…
Much of this report is printed as appendix to the 1885 Annual Report Jahresbericht (pp65f part 1). In a subscript to the Manuscript Ramseyer reports that this is the same old Abraham in Mpraeso about whom he has written: he feels sure that he is lame…
Part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1885 Annual Report p66. There is some additional material however. He first went to Bepong a little over a year ago and was surprised by the exceptional attentiveness of the people. Following this…
Report over the stationing of Catechist Afwireng in Obo. Apparently land still had not been purchased in Obo. When introducing Afwireng to the Obo chief the question was asked (on the chief's side) what was to happen if a slave became a Christian?…
This is an annex to a report in English from Ph. Kwabi over his 7 week absence from Mpraeso in connection with an attempt to conciliate in a dispute between the Agogos and the Asante Akims which seemed on the point of breaking out into war - in fact…
Reporting a semi-formal request from the Agogo king for a teacher. He remarks that the Agogos, like the Kwahu and Asante have drunk fetish that now they serve the white man. Ramseyer adds a subscript that until there is certain peace between the…
A full report on the illness of Afwireng and the attempt to settle a catechist at Obo. After Afwireng was settled at Obo he was frequently visited, but things went along very slowly indeed. After two months he began to complain of pains in his arms…
A report of a Christian turned Mohammedan who visited him twice - Dilger's report is concerned with their arguments and no clear picture emerges of the man himself, other than he was propagating Mohammedanism and had been a Wesleyan. Catechist…
A letter accompanying a drawing by Catechist Mensah of the Buruku rock. Dilger's letter offers some information on the Buruku traditions as he knew them. The rock was a white ant which eat some Afase-yam died and broke up. The little girls do a wild…
Translating a letter he has received from Kwabi, to the effect that (i) he was called to the bedside of a catechumen who thought he was dying and appealed for baptism - Kwabi baptised him Johannes in the presence of some of the Christians, although…
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