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.
Mostly concerned with meditating on the complete lack of accidents during the building process at Begoro, especially during the period of the tree felling, when the trunks lay on the ground accross each other there were so many. These thoughts are…
Accepts a Committee approval of expenditure for the building of the catechist's house in Fankyeneko and says he is sure the Christians of the town will work for the building of the house as soon as they see something is being done.
He has been pioneering a new route down the mountain from Begoro to Dome. He used the Okra valley and the passabove it to cut down the climbing and make the gradients easier. A man can be carried all the way up his new path in a hammock - this was…
Discussing the occurrence of the deaths at Begoro and Abetifi remembers how Inspector Josenhans had said in one of his lectures in the Missionhouse in Basel that each new station cost at least one life. Explaining the delay in presenting final…
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