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Much of this report is printed as appendix to the 1885 Annual Report Jahresbericht (pp65f part 1). In a subscript to the Manuscript Ramseyer reports that this is the same old Abraham in Mpraeso about whom he has written: he feels sure that he is lame…

(Both of these officials are called Müller – the Praeses Johannes Müller and the School Inspector Johann Michael Müller) An applicaticn for a teacher for Kwahu - it is not clear whether for Abetifi or Obo - to open a 'free school', and for another…

Dilger writes in an appendix that he had encouraged Mensah to go on this expedition (No. 88a).

Dilger says he asked Bonteng to write himself partly (see No. 89) because he is too hurt to write himself.

Part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1885 Annual Report p66. There is some additional material however. He first went to Bepong a little over a year ago and was surprised by the exceptional attentiveness of the people. Following this…

Report over the stationing of Catechist Afwireng in Obo. Apparently land still had not been purchased in Obo. When introducing Afwireng to the Obo chief the question was asked (on the chief's side) what was to happen if a slave became a Christian?…

This is an annex to a report in English from Ph. Kwabi over his 7 week absence from Mpraeso in connection with an attempt to conciliate in a dispute between the Agogos and the Asante Akims which seemed on the point of breaking out into war - in fact…

Another annex to Kwabi’s report. This is written from Aburi - Ramseyer is grieved that Dilger does not write to him as his superior, and to find out about the Agogo expedition. He (Ramseyer) was forced to write direct to Kwabi and enquire why he has…

Requests £29 to cover the expenses of his journey to Salaga - including £ 25 for carriers.

Reporting a semi-formal request from the Agogo king for a teacher. He remarks that the Agogos, like the Kwahu and Asante have drunk fetish that now they serve the white man. Ramseyer adds a subscript that until there is certain peace between the…

‘Some having been suffered from different disease were swept away by death, whom on their dying bed the grace of the Lord did appear in them’. Attendance at services is again cited as evidence of the liveliness of religion in the community. In Apapam…

23 of the 30 pupils receive a monthly food allowance of 2/3 from a patroness in Europe.

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.

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