Statistics — numbers of members of the community 6 (excluding the members of the Asante family). Communicants: 4 Children: 2 Non-communicants: 4 Catechumens: 2 Heathen pupils in the school: 10 Teacher: Samuel Ohene. Travelling has been frustrated by…
Remarks over the repairing of the mission house in Kukurantumi, that Akim shingle roofs seem to last only 8 years or so, while in Akwapim, with the more suitable wood available, they last for 20-30 years. Widmann adds in a subscript that the same…
Reports that he has never seen 'in Africa’ such ailing children as have been sent to school with him - sores right down to the bone and crooked limbs. He has sent for medical equipment with which to go about healing them. About one-third of the…
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…
The number of the Christian community has increased from 5 to 15, communicants from 4 to 8, children from 2 to 7. There are 4 non-communicants in the community at the end of 1873, 5 catechumens, and 10 heathen school pupils. Asante himself has been…
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