Exclusion of Jonathan Palmer for adultery - many charges of adultery were made against him in Akim after his return with Christaller to Akropong. Palmer admitted to 2 charges only.
Describing his January visit to Kibi. Flowers had been planted on Mrs Christaller’s grave, a low wall placed around it, a wooden cross erected, and an oil-palm planted. Christaller had found Culmann’s book on Christian ethics very interesting. Mader…
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,…
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…
Requests that they be paid £24 to cover losses which occurred when a canoe was stranded near Odumase - and possibly its contents robbed. Fetzer and Klaus lost £6 worth of groceries each, Müller £5, and the station household lost £7. Also they must…
Reports that the peace initiatives have come to nothing. The letter also alludes to Anum cotton having to be exported via the Bremen stations and Keta.
Includes a description of a journey to Anum in May of 1867. As a matter of course the journey involved it using the Keta-Ho route. Between Ho and Anum he spent the night in the village of Atwaome (?). Here he was the guest of a Christian from Accra…
The mission staff includes now Brother Lodholz, and teacher Jonas Ako. The community in Kibi has incrased from 23 to 35, but the number of communicants only from 13 to 15. There are no catechumens. In the school are 19 boarders, 4 day boys and 4…
Christaller and Eisenschmid apply to the Basel Committee for resources to support 25 boarding pupils in the school. One of the factors adduced to justify the additional expenditure is the fact that a fetish priest has recently appealed to the…
Includes an introductory comment about the significance of the shortage of European workers which is distinctly other than classical calvinism. He writes that if there were a great hunger and thirst for righteousness in Akim, blessings would no doubt…
The report is printed in Heidenbote 1867 pp116ff. It is concerned with the almost simultaneous death and funeral of Eisenschmid's wife and King Ata. The report is a document arising from the distinctive situation of Basel missionaries in Ghana - she…
Suggests that the girls who had been living under his wife's care and attention should be moved to Akropong, asking Basel’s permission and financial support for this move.
He was absent from Kibi from 16th May to 24th June. In this context he offers some information on the custom for the dead Okyenhene. Human sacrifice took place at night, so that comparatively few cases came to their knowledge. The old law that it was…
He describes his first impressions of Kibi. He comments that so far as he could judge the Christians in Kibi have a more childlike attitude to the missionaries than those on the other stations he visited en route for Kibi.
His report on the visit in Kibi contains the information that in Kibi there are 7 marriages between Christian men and heathen women, and in Kukurantumi 2. The elders of the Kibi community are Jacob Koagyeman (who is described as almost too old to…
Asks to be relieved of his duties as merchant, in order to be allowed to undertake proper missionary work. He is in Ho being on route for Keta with a convoy of 130 bales of cotton.
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