Kromer has had a wife on the station since early in the year - she was seriously ill at first, but otherwise they have been in good health with fevers, but not seriously. Concerning Catechist Asante Eisenschmid writes that ‘he has experienced the…
Kukurantumi school had to be closed when Burckhardt was brought to Kibi to be given special supervision. He had been trying to teach with heavy punishments what he hardly knew himself, being little gifted, and having lost much of the knowledge with…
He reckons to have seen a much greater interest in the content of their teaching evidencing: A visit to Asiakwa where the grey-haired elders asked questions about the meaning of points in his preaching - and the younger elders professed to be largely…
Kromer reports that the chiefs of Begoro, Asiakwa and Kukurantumi have visited them more than once. The Asiakwa chief named Diedu is not loved by the Okyenhene whom he often openly accuses. His town and the villages under it are more open to the…
Reports that when it was announced that the they were to run a boarding school Atta immediately asked how much the boys would receive for attending, and when told that they would get board and clothing issued the following laws: That no-one was to…
Remarks that it makes him sad to see land which god did not create to be empty unpeopled and uncultivated, and that the Akems export only Kopal varnish to the coast. Having met the chief and elders of Kibi he writes that several are well-disposed to…
He writes that he has been visited by Feni, the chief of Begoro - a man rather less well disposed to them than the chiefs of Asiakwa and Kukurantumi. Written as a subscript to this report is a translation of 8 Fante lyrics (into German), some of the…
It seems that Burckhardt's misdeameanours in Kukurantumi were small scale embezzlements of mission funds or goods, plus deviousness when these points were being investigated.
Concerned mainly with a visit to Kukurantumi. Eisenschmid reports that people in Kukurantumi are disturbed by the land case, and that there were no inhabitants to be seen in the two villages between Kibi and Kukurantumi (Asafo and Akoko) on account…
States that an elder of Tafo had wanted to send all his children to school, but could not in the face of the opposition of the fetish priests of Tafo and Kukurantumi. All but two of the boys in the previous Kukurantumi school - and they are the…
On the case of Abraham Atitsogbe both the Kibi missionaries and the catechists had given him a good character as having had 'nothing to do' with the slave, so Mader is content that the plan should go forward as Atitsogbe originally designed. There is…
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