The report is mostly printed as an annex to the 1872 Annual Report pp130ff. Additional material: The recruitment of scholars for the Kibi School - only one, handed over by the uncle of the ex-Akropong Middle School pupil David Kese. He also proposes…
An appreciation of the situation in Akim following the two attempts by Haas to collect more pupils for the school. Much of the discussion is taken up with detailed reactions to Akropong decisions over transfers and the interpretation of Basel…
Inter al a request on behalf of three Kibi pupils to be taken into Akropong Middle School: Theophil Oforidee - another member of the royal family, but younger, better gifted, with firmer intentions, and less troublesome than Apeawa. Still not a first…
Reports difficulty in inderstanding the gloom about the possibilities in Kukurantumi: (a) all the early converts had been excluded or otherwise lost - but then, on what station has that not been the case? (b) part of the trouble was the lack of women…
In the second half Haas tells the tale of a master who came to him for medicine for his sick slave. Haas, who was alone on the station, is frequently interrupted for medicine, and knows that often there is no urgency about the matter, put the man off…
Reports that he has taken over a two-mom week old child whose mother had died. A certain fetish claimed that this death was its work, and that the mother must be thrown into the bush, and the child with her.
In the station statistics it appears that Eisenschmid has returned to Kibi in mid-1873 to replace Lodholz, troubled by persistent severe illness. Haas is already a widow. Eisenschmid too suffered an extremely severe attack of illness in November - at…
They have be having a somewhat better response to invitations to send boys to the school - 2 have been sent from Apapame and after Lodholz’ tour of western Akim, 2 more were sent (home towns not specified) and a third came later from Kwaman. However,…
The report is a series of hostile comments on Plans in European Missionary periodicals for an immediate mission to Kumasi. These are that in an independent Asante the hindrances the missionaries suffer from the chiefs subordinate to the English…
A detailed report of his journey in west Akim in January 1873, partially printed as an annex to the 1873 Annual Report pp58-62. Additional material: His original plan was to travel Abomosu-Asuum-Ensuayim-Asiaman-Osiangase-Kibi. At the end of the…
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