Buhl is the mission treasurer. Report of a journey to Begoro to purchase land; it costs 140 Dollars. On the way back they met one captain Hale with a detachment of soldiers. His mission was to discover whatever had happened to Gouldsburry.
Additional comments to accompany Mohr’s letter of 22 March 1875 (see No 254). This letter is printed in parts in the pamphlet “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Begoro is built…
(Cornelius seems to have been the catechist sent one week ahead of Mohr and Mader on their exploratory visit to Begoro). He preached there twice a day, from 7 to 8 in the morning, and 5 to 6.30 in the evening. He remarks that the poor people have…
The personnel of the Kibi station has changed in that there is no longer a European missionary present and David Asante is in charge. The catechists are as before, but there is a new teacher Simeon Bampo. The community has fallen from 32 to 31, with…
Very morose concerning the community - two members had to be excluded for adultery soon after his arrival, and shortly after it was discovered that the elder, William Dapa, was a habitual thief. He has still not met half the people on the list of…
He has met the community and asked them firstly to move onto the station and secondly to make farms. They agreed to the former request, but only the two married members agreed to the latter. The rest refused, since they have no wives and children…
Last paragraph: The slave emancipation is causing a lot of dust to rise. In Kibi it is said the young king is mishandling the slaves who no longer want to remain in his service, and the government must intervene there if the emancipation is to be…
Informs the Basel Committee of Asante’s requests for a ruling on the number of boarding pupils he may take in the school at Kibi. He has given a temporary ruling of 30, but would like Basel's approval for 50, on the grounds - that the boys will come…
The bulk of this letter is printed in a Basel Mission pamphlet under the title “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission" (1875). Travelling Akropong-Kibi-Begoro Mohr mentions the following: At…
Discussing the problem of finding a labour force for building the Begoro mission buildings he points out that there is an advantage in teaching Akem people to do the jobs, since if you bring in strangers you have to pay their debts before bringing…
(This letter is printed more or less in full in the pamphlet “Begoro und Okwau. Bericht über zwei Untersuchungsreisen als Vorbereitung für die Asante-Mission", 1875) They went by the Begoro route, and saw in that town the snail harvest – the women…
In a short attached note to 257 Mader endorses the points mentioned there, though seems to feel a second station in Akim (at Begoro) is a more straightforward step than establishing one in Kwahu, in view of the political situation in Asante.
The report is printed fairly full in Heidenbote 1875 pp66-68. It includes comments about his journeys to Begoro and Kwahu. The alternative route to Kwahu to the Begoro route he describes as going via Abommosu, Asunafo, and Asuom. If the route via…
The report is printed in full in Heidenbote 1876, p6. Remarks that since the slave-emancipation by the colonial government, Asante and Kwahu merchants are no longer travelling to the coast via Kibi, but via Kukurantumi. This is because since the…
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