He travelled Accra-Okurease-Asiemang along a route much used by Kotoku traders. It was difficult to find lodging in Okurease because of the number of people resting the overnight. He had a discussion with a fetish priest in Okurease. En route from…
It includes the geography all worked out. Following Asante, he entered the western outlying province of Akyease, then isolated from the rest of Akim Abuskwa by Kotoku. The only towns on which he comments in Akim Abuakwa proper were Osenese, ready for…
Concerns whether or not the Basel Mission should expand into the West - it looks like an evaluation of the work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society inter al.
Okanta in a written reply to the charges claimed to have bought only 12/- India rubber from three Christian women, and claimed that Date had done as much. He denied collecting rubber, and as for forbidding the community to tell stories to white men…
Personnel of the Anum Mission District: David Asante Teacher H. Amanin at Anum Teacher Chr. Asiedu at Boso Monitor R. Dapa at Boso Teacher J. Okanta at Palime. There seem to have been no journeys into Nkonya-Buem - at any rate Asante's main…
The new teacher for Boso was an Anum man who had gone through several classes of the Akropong Middle School. (This is R. Papa), The Palime congregation had come into being after about a year's preaching by the teacher from Bose and the Bose…
During the year the station was strengthened by the arrival of Missionary Tschopp and Missionary Sitzler. The year was bad from the health angle. Tschopp almost died of a fever, Mrs Dilger was badly ill with rheumatism, and towards the end of the…
The monthly payment received by boys in the higher classes was 2s (NB he gives an exchange rate of £4 to 100 Francs). Frequently he is badgered by relatives of the boys who want money from the mission because they are at school. He has even been…
Since Catechist Afwireng has been persistently ill, and often apparently close to death, they suggest that he be sent to Dr Fisch in Aburi for a last attempt at cure. Ramseyer in a subscript reports that since his arrival in Aburi Afwireng’s brother…
A full report on the illness of Afwireng and the attempt to settle a catechist at Obo. After Afwireng was settled at Obo he was frequently visited, but things went along very slowly indeed. After two months he began to complain of pains in his arms…
A report of a Christian turned Mohammedan who visited him twice - Dilger's report is concerned with their arguments and no clear picture emerges of the man himself, other than he was propagating Mohammedanism and had been a Wesleyan. Catechist…
A letter accompanying a drawing by Catechist Mensah of the Buruku rock. Dilger's letter offers some information on the Buruku traditions as he knew them. The rock was a white ant which eat some Afase-yam died and broke up. The little girls do a wild…
On the preaching journeys which Tschopp have made with Dilger he had suffered from the heat and the thirst and his heal does not set itself under God's leading as a result. Since his arrival two brothers have died. On his arrival one of the main…
Translating a letter he has received from Kwabi, to the effect that (i) he was called to the bedside of a catechumen who thought he was dying and appealed for baptism - Kwabi baptised him Johannes in the presence of some of the Christians, although…
Request for permission to return to Europe on account of (i) his own difficulty in breathing (ii) his wife's acute rheumatism (iii) the fact that two of his children are old enough to need to be taken out of the bad influence of their current…
Reports visiting the house of an elder of Abetifi who had for some time been considering becoming a Christian though the chief and people were set on dissuading him. He found there a tiny starving baby, the mother had died at its birth, and no-one…
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