There had been considerable problems concerned with keeping the station fed in the second quarter of the year, because the tension with Akwapim was interfering with trade and communications to the coast. Of the Christians baptised by Süss before 1859…
Reports a surprise visit to Gyadam by Mader and about 20 pupils from the Catechists' Institute. They arrived at a time when the king of Gyadam was at odds with the king of Akropong through the latter’s protection of 2 of Agyeman’s subjects who had…
Gives another Thaler equivalent: 1 Thaler is equal to 17 3/16 Pennyweights Troys. When Süss left Gyadam he took all the masons and carpenters with him, apparently on the grounds that they were indebted to him personally. Severe financial difficulties…
Reports that evangelistic conversations usually end up with the comment that if the missionaries would give them money, they would become Christians. Another Christian has had to be excluded, this time for trading in rum, but there seems every…
A report on his arrival in Kibi and his early activities in the School. Koforidua he found in two parts - old Koforidua now deserted, and with the houses falling in, and new Koforidua, ten minutes further away from Akropong. At Kukurantumi they had…
Of the 13 new pupils in the boarding school 3 were from Akwapim, 2 were pupils who had been in the school previously, 2 had come to the school in the face of family opposition. In February he had made a visit to Begoro to recruit pupils for the…
Reports that a controversy between him and his carriers between Kukurantumi and Kibi had come to blows. He had not taken the matter before the Okyenhene, but had been wondering whether he should since it was rumoured that the whole thing was an…
A reply to a question sent by the Basel Committee to all missionaries concerning the life of Christian married couples. Concerning the question whether they eat together and pray together, that is difficult to answer from his own observation. It is…
In the second half Haas tells the tale of a master who came to him for medicine for his sick slave. Haas, who was alone on the station, is frequently interrupted for medicine, and knows that often there is no urgency about the matter, put the man off…
Concerning the three graduates of the Kibi Middle School transferred to Akropong. Wilhelm Apeawia - Father the dead king Ata, mother Yaa Bokua. Born 1856-1857, baptised in September 1866, in the School since the beginning of 1863. From Banso. Haas…
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