Kromer has had a wife on the station since early in the year - she was seriously ill at first, but otherwise they have been in good health with fevers, but not seriously. Concerning Catechist Asante Eisenschmid writes that ‘he has experienced the…
The report is printed as far as it refers to Kibi as an annex to the 1866 Annual Report (pp 54ff). The additional unpublished material concerns Kukurantumi.
Includes an introductory comment about the significance of the shortage of European workers which is distinctly other than classical calvinism. He writes that if there were a great hunger and thirst for righteousness in Akim, blessings would no doubt…
In Kibi school numbers are relatively stable at 15, boys whom the King and elders ‘gave’ to the school. They attend fairly regularly and many of them would like to live on the station. Some seem to be really gaining something from baptismal…
The report is almost exclusively concerned with the Akim gold industry. Washing from the rivers is carried on by women and children who are happy if they earn 3d-4d per day. A particular type of earth is known as ore-bearing, and if a gold-digging…
Concerned mainly with a visit to Kukurantumi. Eisenschmid reports that people in Kukurantumi are disturbed by the land case, and that there were no inhabitants to be seen in the two villages between Kibi and Kukurantumi (Asafo and Akoko) on account…
They have 5 servant-girls, who attend school in the mornings and learn needlework with Mrs Eisenschmid in the afternoons. The school in Kibi stands at 9 boarding boys, 6 boys who are servants of the missionaries, and 9 girls who are servants of the…
He was absent from Kibi from 16th May to 24th June. In this context he offers some information on the custom for the dead Okyenhene. Human sacrifice took place at night, so that comparatively few cases came to their knowledge. The old law that it was…
Includes a sketchy description of his wife surrounded by the girls they have in the house sewing while she tells them stories perhaps from Europe, or they sing together. One important happening in the quarter was Ata’s serious illness - at one time…
Includes a comment on Abraham Atitsogbe that he had cleared debt of 50 dollars since Eisenschmid had come to Kibi (4 years), and had also bought for himself the tools he needed to carry on his trade. His house-boy, Wilhelm Dapa, aged 19, has just…
The report is mostly concerned with the Akim judicial system. In an introduction Eisenschmid justifies his saying that the Akim 'civilisation' is at a low level by citing two points - firstly that small misdeeds are visited by heavy and often cruel…
The station is called the white-man's village by the Kibi people. During 1863 catechist Joseph Ofei had to be excluded for immorality. They have had little time for preaching journeys beyond the immediate surroundings of Kibi but have preached…
In the course of the year Jonas Ako had come to Kibi as a teacher. The number of members of the community was 8 (25 in the previous year) with 13 communicants and 6 catechumens. There are 19 boys in the school (only 2 heathen) and 5 girls (all…
The mission staff includes now Brother Lodholz, and teacher Jonas Ako. The community in Kibi has incrased from 23 to 35, but the number of communicants only from 13 to 15. There are no catechumens. In the school are 19 boarders, 4 day boys and 4…
Statistics for the year: The mission land at Kibi is given as 20 acres. The numbers in the Kibi community had increased from 35 to 42, there were now 20 communicants and 2 catechumens. 20 pupils in the boarding school, plus 2 day-boys. 9 girls are…
Is concerned with his performance in Bible knowledge and reading (good), etc. He is described by Eisenschmid as better than any of the evangelists already employed. Eisenschmid and Dieterle repeat the point made elsewhere that his knowledge is the…
There is a long report on this event in Heidenbote 1888, pp 17-20, in which the Eisenschmid letter plays a prominent part. In the unpublished section of the report Eisenschmid says that groups of Christians were waiting on the Kukurantumi-Kibi road…
Kukurantumi school had to be closed when Burckhardt was brought to Kibi to be given special supervision. He had been trying to teach with heavy punishments what he hardly knew himself, being little gifted, and having lost much of the knowledge with…
In the station statistics it appears that Eisenschmid has returned to Kibi in mid-1873 to replace Lodholz, troubled by persistent severe illness. Haas is already a widow. Eisenschmid too suffered an extremely severe attack of illness in November - at…
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