Almost completely taken up with a 26 page minute of a sharp discussion of the relative difficulty of working in Akropong and Osu, on the text 'How can the needs of the Osu Mission be served?’
On 28 May found several men sitting in the street in Abiru, waiting for the Adda people to arrive with fish (specified men not women). Also a report of an escaped slave trying to take refuge with them - he spoke broken arabic, but was fellow…
Includes a description of his language work, and some comments on his results. Also a brief account of the geographical positions of the Akwapim villags and their relations with the Mission.
Includes a fairly straightforward undetailed account of the Akwapim economy, most of which was printed in Heidenbote 1853, p. 107. As a preface however, was a census of Akwapim, which was left unprinted. The figures were compiled by the Polltax…
Trials with a pump to get the water from the source up. Since there is water, they could begin with cows. He went and bought 4 at Ada. One had to be slaughtered and they give until now very little milk. Foot journeys: Accra, Adda(2 times), Prampram…
The quality of coffee and arrowroot sent to Basel not yet satisfactory, a house for storing coffee etc. and as a stable for cows to be built. Settling prices for Coffee and arrowroot: requirement of an "Oeconom" (agricultural and crafts expert).
Includes further comments on the census figures (Second Half Year Report No 75). Now states that the inhabitants of the villages did not include the numbers of their slaves and slaves’ children.
News has been brought by Peki people to the Baael Mission in Christiansborg that an Asante-Akwamu treaty has been concluded in which Asante has promised to help Akwamu restore Crepi to its territories: after that Akwamu will assist Asante in an…
Reports panic in Akropong on the rumour that the Asante army is in Akim…His understanding of the war is that when two Asin princes entered into an agreement with the Asantehene, the British government imprisoned them in Cape Coast, on which an Asante…
(a) his account of the war-scare adds nothing to what has already been said, except that Akwapim made its war-customs, and asked the British government for weapons, powder and lead. Mader points out that it was all a rumour- and compares it with a…
Includes information about another slave, whose home-country was “Marrowa” where a dialect of Hausa is spoken. His master was an Asante who wanted to kill him because he could not carry a Ioad of salt. He fled to Akropong, but his master found out…
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…
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