An appeal for funds to provide 10 more school pupils with food payments of £l=10 yearly. The appeal is backed by the arguments that 1. The Anum people do not yet understand the point of schooling, hence pupils must be paid. 2. It is vital, for the…
He intends to omit a description of Klaus' death and the two Volta journeys connected with that, since these have already been reported. But if those experiences were painful, still more painful ones are to be expected. Almost daily they are being…
Has no new news about the war - no mention of a campaign in August, only a report of the battle on July 13th, after which the Pekyi people, too, were tired of the fighting. Messages have just been sent by Dompre and the Anum 'King' to Accra, Akwapim…
This is a reply to a letter from the Committee in Basel dated 2nd October 1868, which the missionaries read as being critical of their allowing themselves to be forced to pay money for the war. The force of the Basel letter appears to be lost by…
Relays report from Zimmermann that 12,000 armed Asantes are in Akwamu, and that another Asante army has crossed the Volta one day's journey upstream from Anum. He comments that the Asantes and Akwamus have given assurances that they will not attack…
Contains a copy of a letter of Chr. Rottmann‘s (Kata) dated 19th June 1869, addressed to Widmann in Akropong as Prases of the Gold Coast Mission. The uncertainty about the situation in Anum has developed into a relative but menacing certainty. This…
Station statistics for Kibi include the point that away from the town the mission land bordered farms belonging to Apiedu. Nath. Date from Mamfe is the catechist (following Chr. Asante's 'fall'), and the number of members of the community has dropped…
One feature of the station is that the paths have a European width about them. And one of the distinguishing features of the youths on the station is that they appear to care about the future - which is not a characteristic of their comrades in the…
The report is mainly concerned with a journey in the second half of January to the northern boundary of Akim, accompanied by Kwabi, Ako, and a number of the Kibi schoolboys. Travelling west and north from Kibi over a high hill they found no village…
Concerning the dispute between the elder Piedu and Abr. Boamma over a slave. There had been enmity between Abr. Boama and the other slaves of Piedu before he became a Christian. After he became a Christian the young slave of his whom he had given to…
He has been teaching arithmetic in the Kibi school - they apparently teach gold-dust reckoning as well, since he remarks that one can see how much more difficult it is to do arithmetic in the Kibi school from a table of relative values: 1 pesewa =…
The woman involved - it seems to have been generally accepted - though often on mission land had no sustained relationship with Asante. She was a mulatto wife of the elder Kwasi Amoako. Asante confessed quickly after the event and the Kibi…
Announces rumours that the Asantes were encamped near Bomoso - the missionaries were regretting not having sent loads off to Accra with the Accra people. Mader’s subscript doubts the number of Asantes at the Akim frontier - an Abosu man had been…
Transmitting information about the missionary prisoners obtained from an Asante released after capture by the Crepes who was in Kibi. The missionaries had been taken prisoner, and before chief Openten it had had to be decided whether they were to be…
Applies through the Slave Emancipation Commission for 40 dollars to obtain the release of Opuni, a man enslaved to a relative at Kukurantumi after he had travelled to Akim to find his family, his mother having been an Akira woman taken to Asante…
Some of the schoolboys had hoped that the missionaries, acting as their fathers, would provide them with weapons for the war. Akim had been urged to join the alliance against Asante by messengers from the native king of Accra, and the ‘Fante…
Reports a great deal of activity in fetish customs, especially led by a woman of the royal house, the matron Sekyira. He interprets this as intended to restore fetishes to their earlier reverence, and also to hinder street-preaching. Their reception…
They arrived in Anum at the end of December, their child having been fed partly by women in the villages who were suckling their own children (12 women helped in this way) and partly by Swiss milk kept in a bottle with a rubber cork. In a postscript…
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