The first page of this report is a list of the members of the Christiansborg Basel Mission Church, divided into male and female, negro and mulatto, with with brief descriptions of people’s occupations. pp 24-25 are concerned with a short paragraph on…
The two sons of the King of Akim, Gyeki and Asirife, attend lectures in the institute, thought they are really enrolled in the school. They are also receiving an hours instruction in English since their father lays such store by this.
He reports several anthropological points and is an account of beliefs about leopards in Nkonya and procedures to be followed when one is killed. There is also a description of a case of a man who feared a rejected fetish was taking possession of…
The last section of the report is an account of his Kwahu journey in 1882. Lists the four Juaben villages as Koforidua, Asokore, Afidwase, Oweko. In Koforidua they were able to borrow a bell from a young man to call the people together for…
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