The report is printed as far as it refers to Kibi as an annex to the 1866 Annual Report (pp 54ff). The additional unpublished material concerns Kukurantumi.
Continues with the history of the Asafo-Kukurantumi land case. On 12th October 1865 the Kibi Christians woke the missionaries before dawn to appeal to them to intervene, because there was going to be a battle between Kukurantumi on the one side, and…
Mentions the possible payment of the debt of 36 dollars by which the Kukurantumi Christian Paul Teaseye is pawned and the question sent to the Basel Committee for their answer since the money would have to be provided by them.
Discussion about the buying free of a servant girl of Chr. Asante in Kibi. He had acquired her because he could get no-one to serve him, and Missionary Mader had suggested that buying someone with the slave emancipation fund would be the best plan.…
The bulk of this report is published in the 1865 Annual Report, pp 106-109. Additional material: Theft is a major problem - three serious cases have occurred, in one of which they managed to get their things back. Philip Kwabi is totally reliable,…
Before moving to the temporary quarters they had built on the new station, they were living in a house belonging to one Briandt. He has 40-60 workers involved with land-clearing and building: they are paid daily rates, and every Saturday afternoon is…
Reacts to a letter from Basel dated 11th January, which in turn is a reply to their Stations Conference Protocol of 5th Nov 1864. The Basel Committee appear to have taken exception to the requests made, and the tone in which they were made. The two…
Both are dominated by illness: Klaus had been driven to Akropong for recovery after a persistent recurrent fever and two severe attacks of Yellow Fever. They are active in trading.
Basel has written that a budget of £18 per person in Anum for carriage costs is too high. They, on the other hand, plead that it is too low: that each load costs 4 heads of cowries, and that many loads are also lost or stolen on the way. J. Müller,…
The new station has an excellent view over the immense plains to the north where thousands of unevangelised people live. About 50 men are working on the building site, but the bulk of these are from Accra. He analyses the difficulty of getting a…
His first night out from Dauromadam was spent in the village of Onipaho, in a hut with no furnishings of any kind. Next day they called on the Akwamuhene, taking the customary gift. They were given a very friendly welcome. They asked for the…
The wish is expressed that the Committee in Basel would see its way to providing the Anum station with a harmonium. Müller obviously took the initiative in this, and writes how much it would cheer them in days of health and illness.
Gives total of children in the school (all boys) as 7, the number of communicants as 3, the total Christian community as 16. Health - Klaus is very sick indeed, and believed he was dying at the end of December. Fetzer and Müller himself have only…
In the course of the year Jonas Ako had come to Kibi as a teacher. The number of members of the community was 8 (25 in the previous year) with 13 communicants and 6 catechumens. There are 19 boys in the school (only 2 heathen) and 5 girls (all…
The missionaries had been called on to explain why they had excluded men for marrying heathen women when no Christian women were available. They cite paragraph 89 of the order of the community.
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