News of Süss - he has been very ill with fever, and the rumour among the local population is that when he was unconscious he was taken to the fetish, but this is only a rumour. He had cured his condition by taking quinine and an extract of…
Reports panic in Akropong on the rumour that the Asante army is in Akim…His understanding of the war is that when two Asin princes entered into an agreement with the Asantehene, the British government imprisoned them in Cape Coast, on which an Asante…
Accounts of early missionary conversation at Abiru Akropong and Larteh: It includes a description of a visitor which his wife recieved - a slave from Abiru who believed that when the Abira Fetish Priest died he would be killed. She had been a slave…
Glad that the committee at last agrees to the stationing of a missionary at Christiansborg. About Riis’ house at Ussu: Dr. Hansen whom he allowed to stay in the hones is drunk daily and makes a lot of noise. He pleases the committee send them goods.…
Andreas Riis will leave for Europe the next day. He is very bitter against the other missionaries, especially against the young brethren. The house he bought in Ussu and repaired with mission funds he wants the missionaries to pay rent for. He has in…
About the little Danish Fort planned for Akropong. Government has done much for Guinea, a fort would help to suppress the slave trade and cruel customs (ritual murder) and be a good protection of trade and a post against the Ashantis. This is his…
Glad, that A. Riis at home has acknowledged some of his faults. About the schoolbook: 500 copies are too much, the book needs revision very soon. H.N. Riis does a good job with his grammatical sense. Need for a small printimes press in future. Need…
News of the death of Sebald: He had been sick in Basel already. Need to send healthy people out. Request for a wife and more brethren. On day of Sebald’s death a new Akwapimhene installed, begin of peace.
Riis is still very sick. His behaviour in the last time to be explained to a large part by his sickness. The newly arrived brethren do not understand this. There are things Riis does Widmann could not do, his conscience would not allow him. But the…
The story of the perfidy of Adum and the Christiansborg people against Owusu Akyem and the Akropongs and the tragedy of the 25th November. See: Missionsmagazin 1845, pp 106-109. Not printed: Guilt of the Governor: Interfering too late and listening…
Widmann Pages 1-11, Riis pages 12-15 Widmann extracts see: Missionsmagazin 1844, pp 187-192. Not printed: His sickness he had to cure himself. It would be good to have a Christian doctor. The local Africans friendly visited him during his sickness…
Parts printed: Missionsmagazin 1845, pp 103-105. First vernacular hymn sung, first sermon in Twi, disturbances. Not printed: Even Adum does not hate the missionaries, he wanted to keep back Lutterodt and Riis, because he did not want them to go to…
Widmann pages 1-7, Riis page 8. Journey from the plantation to Akwapim. Stone building. Language work. Arrival of the West Indians. Printed in Missionsmagazin 1844, pp 181-186. Riis from Ussu 24th July: Has sores on leg, does not hear well. A…
Second journey to Akim Accompanied by three pupils Jonathan, Paul, Wilhelm and a number of carriers. Setting out 10 Feb. In five hours had reached the last Akropong farming village Hawanti, having passed through Amamprobi (described as the farming…
Death of Koester. Two more brethren for Ussu therefore urgently and immediately needed. Thompson fell again, confesses, his wife asks divorce, he leaves the mission.
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