Final accounts of the building of the station. The protocol asks for permission to build a teacher's house, since Dako is planning to marry shortly which will make the catechists' house no longer an adequate lodging for him.
Werner has a debt of £46, though at the same time he possesses cattle to the value of £11 (sheep that is). Weimer applies for £17 - both blame the heavy demands on their clothing of the building period, though Eisenschmid adds in a subscript that…
Forwards a French report to the people in Neuchatel. The English Regime have informed him that they are not prepared to give him a letter of recommendation to the Asantehene - but he is worried by the report of a Jesuit from Strassburg having visited…
The letter to the Basel Conmittee is an appeal to be allowed to visit Kumasi with the end in view of establishing a Basel station there. His reason for writing at that moment seems to be alarm at the prospect of a Catholic station being set up.…
Prince Ansah communicates the visit of Rev Mr Gommenginger to Kumasi - he did not reveal the intentions of the Roman Catholic missionaries in regard to the place. Prince Ansah thinks, (though he offers no reasons for this) that now is the time to…
In a ‘votum' on the question of whether to work towards a Kumasi mission or not Weimer argues that it would reduce the danger that war with Asante would break out and the station be devastated. He also adds as a current advantage that a number of…
None seems to have any additional information as to the position in Asante, though Dieterle writes his second votum after a visit to David Asante especially to find out what he knows about affairs in Asante. The Committee letter to Ramseyer which…
Attempting an etymology for Abetifi, he reckons it is not derived from abe + tifi to mean ‘palm-summit’, but from abotan (sometimes shortened abo) + tifi, meaning rocky summit. You can still meet older people who use the first (earlier) name (it's…
Clearly a reply to a letter addressed to him by one of the mission's supporters. The real king of Kwahu is Aku Amoa, but he is old and delicate and most of the functions of the king are performed by the chief of Abetifi who will probably succeed him.…
The letter is printed in full in Heidenbote 1879 p37, — with opposite it an engraving of the Kwahu fetish rock initialed as the picture of the station is initialed - the same initials are on other pictures from other places.
The report is partly printed as an appendix to the Basel Mission Annual Report 1879, pp70-71. Looking back over the period in which they built the station, Mohr reckons that 'hundreds' of boys, young women, and men were involved in the work. In the…
Reports about a 2-day journey which he made with Ramseyer preaching along the path between Abetifi and Kwahu-Tafo. At Bukuruwa the king was building a new house, and invited them all to come and live in it when it was finished, since it would be big…
The impact of the struggle between Atta in Kibi and David Asante, and the latter's being posted away from Kibi, has been that people feel that Atta has won a victory, and that he has acted or the basis of recognised rights. In the typhus epidemic 170…
The part of this report concerning the first baptisms in Fankyeneko is printed in Heidenbote 1879 pp9-10. They are having much difficulty getting pupils for the Begoro school. At the end of June he held an examination for the 7 boys and 1 girl who…
Application for authorisation to spend £45 on building a catechist' house in Fankyeneko and 36 dollars on the purchase of land. (Full financial details not noted). Their presentation of the application includes the point that they wish to pay the…
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