During the Asante war-scare Obosompra at Abiru had told the Akropongs not to plant yams, and this was causing some difficulties with the yam custom (The Mission was under pressure to present a cow for the custom.).
The first subject under discussion was Süss’ defection to Gyadam. The report includes a copy of Süss first letter from Gyadam dated 6 Sep 1853. He arrived on the 4th, and since has been living in the chief’s house, the chief giving him his food. Most…
As with all his formal reports includes a discussion of his progress in learning twi. This one includes information on his informants – he has been endeavouring to meet people from many places in order to improve his grasp of the language, and among…
Made a short visit to Logong on Feb 6th, to talk to the baptismal candidate Sang who lived there. The report also offers a summary of Zimmermann's activities in the agricultural field since his arriving in Christiansborg. He made an experimental…
Comments on the celebrations when British rule was consolidated – a gathering of the important chiefs in Christiansborg. The King from Kibi was the most noble of them, and the richest the King of Akim (this and other material from Zimmermann on the…
Includes comments on the large number (relatively) of baptismal candidates current in Osu. On is a slave whom the Mission bought free six months ago and who has stayed with them ever since°. He has become a missionary among, the people from his area.…
Much of this report is taken up with the Durbar to celebrate the extension of English control on the coast – and is word for word identical with the Zimmerman quarter report No. 140.
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…
First part is a Ga traditional account of the McCarthy war - Zimmermann says in the same sentence that he had it from the mouth of an elder (not specified) and implies that it is a popular history. It is certainly fairly crude. The cause is given as…
In the section on preaching journeys a visit to Legon is mentioned (spelt this time Lego). The people had agreed to give up their fetish practices, to keep Sunday holy, listen to the Bible being read regularly. However, Stanger doubted the…
Several people from Kumasi and Akim have visited him apparently to hear what he has to say about religion. Another visit to Lego - obviously in the Legon area, since it is described as the first farming village of any significance after leaving Osu.…
Includes an account of a journey to Akropong with his pupils, via Kwantanang (which he says he has visited many times before, sometimes with his wife) and Amrahia, where a Peki Caravan was resting. On the way back to Osu passed through Legon, and was…
Summary biographies of 11 baptismal candidates. In the discussion of work outside Christiansborg, the greatest attention is paid to Labadi and Teshi, Legon is not named, though Nkwatangang is, as being like the villages around Abokobi a place where…
Reports having made a visit to a condemned Asante who would not listen to him, but called on Nyankopong as he went up to the gallows (at the beginning of June).
Begins with an account of some of the animals he has encountered, with some information on their religious significance. Reports a crocodile-fetish at Bre (Berekuse) on the stream called Mama near the Abokobi plantation. It is given an annual…
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