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…
Although there are pupils who need discipline and training, the teachers in the school take pains to make progress, and among the pupils there is a lively and alert attitude and the life of the school is orderly. Much of the report is concerned with…
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…
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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