They could not finish the repair of the sawing machine and the bricks. The following buildings were completed: 1) A stone house containing the store, the girl’s school room for Mrs. Widmann, and a carpenter's workshop. 2) A Turkey house and also for…
Glad that inspector encourages him to plant. Widmann had been against it but he, Mohr, liked it very much to serve the pagans thus. 2-300 plaintains and Banana planted, 5-600 little coffee tree seedlings transplanted, about 1000 Yams, beans. The West…
Report on the plantation work (p 1). Difficulties with labourers settled. Buildings, carpentry work, repair of West Indian houses (p 2). The sawing machine repaired, but the wood cannot be brought here, therefore the machine useless (pp 2-3). Sheep…
i) The Building of the West Indian houses: premiums given to masons for quick work. Work at the stone house for Widmann begun (pp 1-2). ii) The planting coffee: doing well, once the plants are higher than 1 foot before that time, some animal rodes…
Not content about some of the tools sent. Requirements. The seeds should be packed in glasses or tins. Most of the seeds sent were spoiled. Why no tobacco seeds?
Account of his sickness (p 2). About the building, held up only a little by sickness of West Indians (p 2-3) Planting: Much time spent on weeding and the repair of the fence. Shall concentrate on arrowroot and Coffee He harvested 194 lbs coffee and…
Sickness. Cured with chinin (p 1). About the plantation: Coffee and arrowroot plantation increased. They no longer need to buy plantains or Bananas. Zimmermann brought much seed, will try out lucerne ("Klee") and cattle rearing. A stable shall be…
About the new building. Arrowroot plantation very big, improved grinding and flower making, but where shall he go in future with all the flour? Coffee have now 1464 tree. Last year was dry, therefore not much yield (pp 1-2). He made a new garden. Got…
Thanks for promised tobacco pipes. About tools: found only half of the tools which should have been at Akropong. Sends coffee and arrowroot flour to Basel. Please send 1 lbs coffee to Jerusalem as seeds for brother Palmer.
The bulk of this letter is printed in a Basel Mission pamphlet under the title “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Travelling Akropong-Kibi-Begoro Mohr mentions the following: At…
The report begins with a five page introduction about preparations and travelling techniques. Leaving Begoro he remarks that there is a pond in the course of the river Osubeng near the town, which is accounted a fetish - women pray to it for…
There is a printed version of this report in Heidenbote 1882 pp 26ff, which covers the actual visit to Kumasi. Additional material: In talking about the preparations for the journey, Mohr says that Ramseyer had received reports from various people…
In describing the background to his journey, he offers two reasons for the outbreak of the war in 1860 - (1) that the Gyadam people were working a new goldfield and would not give Atta of Kibi his customary 1/3 takings. (2) Agyeman refused to let…
Concerning the out-station at Anyinam and the first baptisms there. A fairly big town, made bigger recently by the settlement of Juaben people around it. Judging by the head tax which Atta decided to raise last year, the number of inhabitants must…
Writes as Praeses of the Mission in Akwapim/Akim. Reporting the 'fall' of Teacher Adu in Begoro. For several months he had apparently been involved in sexual relations with two Christian girls, neither of whom knew the other was involved - nor did…
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