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In Anum a cistern and a goat-stall are listed as mission buildings. Building is going in on most of the outstations, and in Anum the mission house has been held up by a four month absence of Brethren Lieb with yellow fever. There are 24 houses in the…

They were paying the building force 20-25d per day and there was endemic pressure, including mild strike action, in pursuit of more pay.

He evidently considers that he should feel a joy in his work, which he in fact did not feel during the first half of the year when there were exclusions, and no conversions. In Anum the fact that the community is drawn from 3 different towns creates…

Little sale of European spirits in the Anum area, though from here and there armed caravans go to Bagida, where cheap liquor can be bought from the Germans. Mostly however palm wine is the ceremonial drink. It is even difficult to get spirits for…

Concerned with the first Mission Anniversary, Total realised from the offerings £20=15, more or less, from the different sources, in proportion to the strength of the congregations as indicated by the records of the stations already extracted -…

In Ntwumuru Hall's house was indeed the first to be put up with European-style doors and shutters. Müller reports many families living per house, and says this is because they are farmers and spend much time out of the town. In the early part of 1889…

Describing difficulties in the community. The family of one Odee had moved back into the town and totally given themselves back to heathenism (bought a sheep to sacrifice to the fetish, worked on their farms on Sundays, put amulets on a sick child).…

The report is printed in a German translation in Heidenbote 1890 p 19 ff. The English version includes some description of obsequy customs in Nkonya.

Report on a journey to Nkonya. En route preaching in the Boso area - a rare case of opposition in that when they went to preach in To there were few people there, and these people mocked them, so they had to leave. The Abo was swollen and they heard…
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