The backgrcund to this journey was the fact that while the extent of the Afra, plains to the Northeast was known, its extent, and its population (if any) to the north was unknown. The Kwahu people said that in 10 days one reached the province of…
The report is largely printed as an annex to the 1886 Annual Report pp84-94. Additional material: In Begoro they had built a new teacher's house in 1885, and were in the process of building for the Middle School. In Apapam there is a catechist's…
21 students, 8, 6 and 7 in Classes I, II, & III respectively, A responsibility which has caused him many difficulties, that they have no proper buildings and so live in lower storey of the Mission House, which causes many problems. An examination…
Contains a list of boys from the top class of the Kibi school who were to be considered for entry to the Akim Middle Schol: Atta, Is. Anto, Nath. Amaning, Sam. Donko, Jos. Kwamin, Jer. Amoako, Jos. Frempon. Jos Bosompem was too little gifted to be…
Despite the date, the report is still being written in October. It seems to have been printed in full in Heidenbote 1886 pp43-46. One point omitted is a further episode from Boakye's biography. After the incident described in the printed text the…
The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1885, pp92ff. Additional material: The introduction makes it clear that the report is a commentary on the petition from the Basel Mission concerning duties on spirits to the German Reichskanzler Bismarck. As…
His sermon is repeated in extenso in the manuscript. It is an extension of the text, exhorting he congregation the practical thankfulness in terms of greater financial independence, and less domination attitude to the Mission. Ata had gone to Pameng.…
The letter is a pro tem report on relations with Ata. He writes that he has said frequently since Ata returned from Lagos that he had helped the mission so much he should be paid a deacon’s salary. Whole families and whole villages, their normal mode…
The protocol was written by W. Huppenbauer. It concerns with the local agents in Akim. Huppenbauer advises that J. Seth and J. Asumen be fully accepted as local agents. The former at Kwaben has succeeded in getting the Christians to set out and build…
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…
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…
Proposing that Agogo be settled as a European station - the area is too distant from Abetifi to be supervised properly by the missionaries there. The Agogohene has already asked twice for a teacher. This is connected with a new appraisal of the…
He links his resignation with that of Inspector Schott. He did not wish to be connected with a mission which, supported on the whole by people in poor and middling circumstances, spent so much of its money supporting the local community and the local…
Links his resignation strongly with the Schott affair - they had laid considerable emphasis on I Cor 9vv1-14 in their dealings with local employees, and he is also very disillusioned with the exploitative attitude of the Christians to the…
On account of Christmas many Akim Christians were at the coast but he was able to meet the assembled community nevertheless. He was impressed by the spirit of the Kibi community - it did him good to feel it - and felt that there there was little…
Ramseyer feels Missionary Marquart would only be happy in a ‘marquartish’ Mission. He has ignored the real progress made in getting rid of the system of total support from outside. Both Ramseyer and Müller say that Marquart lacks the proper…
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