Reports a murder in Begoro - a slave had been punished by his master for stealing somebody else’s hen (Glatzle explains that the master is held responsible) and in revenge killed his master's wife and a woman who came to help her. The .missionaries…
The dialectic between Christians and heathen at the time of Johannes Asamoah's death was in terms of the heathen saying 'The School kills' and the catechist preaching 'why then are so many people dying in Begoro town?' The work went better, except…
Mostly concerned with meditating on the complete lack of accidents during the building process at Begoro, especially during the period of the tree felling, when the trunks lay on the ground accross each other there were so many. These thoughts are…
Almost entirely concerned with the problems of building. He lost his first set of building apprentices because he was too tough with them. The second set he has been more successful with, but now they want more money, and are choosy how much work…
Printed apart from short comments on the missionaries’ health at beginning and end - in Heidenbote 1876 pp94-5. He gives a full list of the Christian names of the people baptised on Ascension Day 1876 with their occupations and one or two sentences…
Bericht über die Feldforschungsübung Juli/August 1995, Ethnologisches Seminar, Basel, ca. 40 Seiten Text, ca. 40 Seiten Illustrationen, Familienstammbaum, Krokis von Compounds etc.
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