Reporting on the personnel on the station, the little Ramseyer child died in June, Dilger arrived in January. Mid-August Sakyi the catechist was moved to Begoro - he had himself asked for a transfer. In his place came Phillip Kwabi. Commenting on the…
Information about the Okomfo Anokye affair in Kumasi, and a translation of part of a letter from Owusu Ansah about it. At the end of Nov 1879 two emissaries came to Abene from Agogo, and created sensation in Kwahu and Akim. They claimed to be from…
Discussing his life so far on the Gold Coast, Dilger says that he has never been so happy in his life before as he is in Abetifi, despite fevers etc, and the death of the little Ramseyer child which affected him deeply. The six-fingered child was…
Again reports a preaching journey in mid-October. Amama - could not decide on which of his prepared texts to preach, but met a fetish priest in the village, and so told the story of the Ark in the Philistines temple, and the catechist following him…
Written and signed by Mohr. The personnel of the station at the end of 1880 includes Gottlieb Munz and Stephan Sakyi as catechist, at Fankyeneko catechist William Emmanuel Obeng. David Huppenbauer was on the station for 6 months, then was…
The closure of the school followed three weeks after its re-opening with teacher Okanta, when after a large meeting in the street with the chief and people of Begoro it had been agreed that children would be sent to it (they were to be given a…
The first part of the report is taken up with complaints about the length of time which catechists Obeng and Sakyi have asked for their leave, and the fact that they have both overstayed their leave by a considerable length of time. Sakyi appears to…
Laments the frequently changing personnel of the station - Munz for Huppenbauer, Sakyi for Ntow and Okanta, but includes a passage on Sakyi. Finding himself in that thickly clouded land, lying outside the protectorate where slavery and pawning were…
An account of the war-scare, and news of the Huppenbauer/Buck trip to Kumasi. Includes as summary of the appearance of the mobilisation for war as it appeared to Buhl in Accra - much munitions just leaving all public work suspended, hammocks and…
In a geographical introduction he remarks that though there are huge stretches of empty land in Akim, especially towards Kwahu and southwards towards the coast, there are frequent land disputes and if the neighbouring tribes encroach on Akim in any…
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