Talks about Kibi as his new homeland (‘Heimat’). Says in Kukurantumi there are Asante schoolboys. In Kibi they had to suffer a strike when a man slaughtered a sheep and swore they should not work for the mission at least than 2 dollars per thousand…
The letter is concerned partly with impressions - he obviously feels surrounded by an alien and hard society. In the palace in Kibi the first thing you see as you go in is an image, with an offering, of food in front of it. The king himself is…
Part of this report is printed in Heidenbote 1863 pp114f. The Asante embassy was ordered to Accra by the Colonial Government, tried to escape on the way, but was captured. Two Accra men came to Kibi to take a hostage to Accra as surety of the King…
Reflects on his having been two years in Africa – his two comrades who journeyed from Basel with him both having died. Among the Kibi catechumens is a man born a house-slave who himself now owns two slaves. He was wounded in the shoulder - a fight…
The Kukurantumi-Asafo land case has been settled, and it seems that Eisenschmid was at least an intermediary in the matter since he interviewed the Asafo chief on the subject when he was en route for Kukurantumi, heard that he was prepared to settle…
Suggests that the girls who had been living under his wife's care and attention should be moved to Akropong, asking Basel’s permission and financial support for this move.
Raises the question of policies in relation to the organisation of the mission in Akim- whether there should be two stations, and if so whether Asiakwa or Kukurantumi should be the second. There is a long clear setting out of the factors by Schrenk…
Travelling from Akropong to Kibi they spent the first night in Panto, the second in Kukurantumi. In the latter a man had died and a priest declared that it was his fetish which was responsible - although the priest had been attending the man in his…
He stresses that he personally has knowledge only of the Akropong area. The emancipation has had effects in only isolated cases in Akwapim - people talk about 50 cases, and even if you double this number this is very few among so many slaves. In the…
The process ended on May 10th. The jury was almost completely made up of local people, Ata having 'forbidden' Europeans from serving. All the other points except complicity in the ritual murder were found against the prosecution by the jury - there…
Teacher Adu at Begoro is from Kukurantumi, a small but busy man, of the best students of his year. He has just married a very simply Christian girl from his home town, and seems happy and at peace. (He seems too on good terms with Eisenschmid). The…
Concerns one Kwame Ayeribe from Apapam. After a year in the boarding school during which he had a good name, he was taken away by force and given to Asumaneng of Apapam as pawn to cover a loan of 27 dollars. He has since appealed both to Haas and…
The report is printed in Heidenbote 1867 pp116ff. It is concerned with the almost simultaneous death and funeral of Eisenschmid's wife and King Ata. The report is a document arising from the distinctive situation of Basel missionaries in Ghana - she…
According to Eisenschmid the earlier proceedings had left Ampaw of Kukurantumi in undisputed possession of the land, though with a heavy fine to pay on account of his representatives misuse of the Okyenhene’s oath. However, following the death of…
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