Statistics give four buildings: A house for two married missionaries, a store for trade goods, a range of rooms for the missionaries' servants, the catechist, the scholars, and a room 'outside the courtyard' used for the school. Three missionaries,…
The reports from Hall and Clark have the No. 129-130 and 138. He remarks over Clerk's report that a younger brother's remarks have to be taken carefully, .especially in reference to the Volta people who face strangers with distrust. Putting 5…
In this (misfiled) report Müller reports considerable opposition when passing a fetish site which was not in Anum itself. The site consisted of 3 large round stones laid one on top of another, surrounded by a fence. When he get near a crowd of men…
The first part of this report is printed, more or less verbatim, in the 1867 Annual Report, pp 129-130. Unprinted material in the concluding sections: He describes a journey northwards from Anum. Preaching in Bose and Dame - in the latter they were…
Discussing the language question, he reports that not only their building workers, but also most of the house servants are Gas. Only a few of the station residents - including the boy who has been handed over to him, speak Twi. On the war there is…
His journey to the other Twi stations made difficult by the danger of travelling. His route: Anum-Pekyi, Pekyi-Abotia. At Abotia his Anum carriers were due to hand him over to Abotia carriers, who were to go with him on the route to Battor. But they…
An orthodox extended statement of the difficulties of working in Anum in the sense that no reactions are being obtained from the Anum people themselves. Following points: 1. Three times stated that clothes are a major concern of the Anum people – no…
Has no new news about the war - no mention of a campaign in August, only a report of the battle on July 13th, after which the Pekyi people, too, were tired of the fighting. Messages have just been sent by Dompre and the Anum 'King' to Accra, Akwapim…
Partly printed as an annex to the 1889 Annual Report, pp46ff. Additional material: They plan to build a small cistern on the station; there is already one in Odumase. Their masons seem all to have come from Akwapim. There is the usual trouble about…
During 1868 the station staff changed in that - Brother Krauss died - Brother Schönhuth arrived, and was joined by his wife - The Ramseyer's arrived. A new catechist was also appointed to Anum after Obuobisa had failed to find a way of returning and…
There are 6 houses on the mission land at Tosen, 16 at Boso, no figures for the other stations. Personnel of the district: Johannes Müller Peter Hall (Ntwumuru). Chr. Tenkorang (Tutunya) Chr Asiedu (Amfoi) Heinrich Lieb, Nik. Clerk plus the helpers…
In Anum a cistern and a goat-stall are listed as mission buildings. Building is going in on most of the outstations, and in Anum the mission house has been held up by a four month absence of Brethren Lieb with yellow fever. There are 24 houses in the…
Much of this report is published as an appendix to the 1891 Annual Report, pp 52ff. Additional material: Botoku, like Kpando, is pressing hard for a school. Summarising his assessment of the significance of development, Müller writes that this does…
He remarks en passant that not one of the Akwapim workers in the Ewe districts has yet learned to preach in the peoples’ mother tongue, and some have been for 8 years.
Reporting a tour of Akim, Asante-Akim, and Kwahu There are five Juaben villages in the stretch Koforidua-Kukurantumi. There are 28 inhabited places in Kwahu - 8 of them are among the largest towns on the Gold Coast. Kwahu burial customs (he mentions…
The report is two-thirds concerned with a journey to West Akim. He talks about Kotoku and mentions Katawere as being a major source of opposition to Christianity. In Asuboa the people flocked to write down their names, saying their fetish had been…
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