The letters No. 205, 213, 214 and 215 belong together. A summary of the four letters is given here. A report of the journey is also printed in "Der Heidenbote", 1881, pp 43ff (based on No. 213). The letter No. 215 is printed for the Friends of the…
A new chapel is being built in Kibi, and there are 21 houses in the Christian village (excluding missionaries' and teachers' houses). 14 houses in the Salem at Kukurantumi. Asiakwa is listed as having been founded in 1877, therebeing mission land, a…
The report is mostly printed in Heidenbote 1880, pp43-44. Additional points: He gives the figure of 8 people who had broken with fetishism in Otumi. He also lists the catechumens over and above those mentioned in the printed portion of the report -…
In the chapel building he had only one skilled assistant - the rest of the people had to be taught e.g. shingling. He himself was busy with the stone-breaking and building in swish. One woman has to be excluded for adultery, and another suspended…
The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1880, pp90-91. Additional information: He describes Asuum as the same size as Begoro, and names the Ashanti town which one reaches after 1.5 days from Asuum Oboku. Several months before a fetish priest had…
One of the school teachers had been called to Accra for the case against Ata. Buck's way of finding out how things had gone during the absence of himself and one of the teachers was to order a quick inspection of clothes and books. The results were…
A request to promote Cat. Mullings to Deacon. First reason - the size of the Asiakwa community following recent gains. Second reason - Mullings, 30 years old, West Indian stock, is the first catechist and founder of the church in Asiakwa. His love of…
Part of this report is published in Heidenbote 1881, pp27ff. To the end of the first paragraph in the printed section about the Akim community being made up of freed slaves is more explicit in the report: Without the king's positivity it would have…
There is correspondence about financial administration at Kibi in March-May of this year. It is opened by a Basel Committee letter dated 14 March 1881 (presumably to find in the D-2 series). Folio 41-2 in which the points are made: 1. that the…
In the recent past the community had lost two adults (including a Presbyter) by death and. 6 children, 4 adults were excluded. In the building of the new chapel the pulpit and altar were built by Buss in Kibi and transported to Kukurantumi. They had…
The first part of the report is a lament at the lack of local personnel, with acerbic footnotes from J. Müller indicating that the lack is not so severe as depicted. Huppenbauer suggests an Evangelists' School in Kibi - they have 3 young men in mind…
Station Census: Missionaries: Ramseyers & Dilger. Catechist: Ph. Kwabi until July, then he was in Mpraeso Teachers: Emm. Dako (married), and since July Johannes Koranteng (unmarried). Reporting on the progress of the Christian community (it is not…
Dilger criticises the teaching methods practiced by the local teachers, and his own statement of priorities. The local teachers, as far as he is able to judge, know very little about handling a subject in an exciting and interesting way nor do they…
Announces the various pieces of news which have indicated that there is no danger of war. Inter al a letter from Prince Ansah to him which blames a misunderstanding of the significance of the visit of a recent Asante ambassador to the Governor. He…
Writes that the Amantara delegation of the previous year was from Bompata, asked for a teacher, tried to see the governor via the good officer of the 'King of Accra' who took their money but did not do for them what they had hoped.
Reporting his presence in Aburi and the fact that for several months they had heard in Abetifi rumours that the Asantes were buying up arms and ammunition - he mentions Snyder rifles specifically - but that at the moment when letters come to him from…
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