The report is concerned with the Yam Festival in Anum. 10 varieties of yams are known, that favoured most by the Anum people is called Akoako, and the people plant 500-2,500 according to their means. He describes the cultivation and that there is an…
From 18 pupils in the boarding school + 21 free school pupils (i.e. day pupils) in Jan 1890, numbers had moved by January 1891 to 17 pupils in the boarding school + 21 day scholars (including 7 girls), 3 pupils went to the Begoro Middle School.…
He has been in the habit of allowing the costs of 8-10 loads for younger catechists, and 10-12 loads for older ones. This allows them to take provisions with them, salt, parrafin, mattresses. Any child is allocated one load. He would like also a rule…
In a short letter about approved scales of furniture for catechists etc. houses, Ramseyer suggests that these be increased - they cannot expect the catechist to sleep on the approved bed stead without wanting one for his wife, similarly rather than…
Forwarding Hall's report (see No. 119), and more or less unconditionally applying on behalf of Buem for Clerk's transfer there with a catechist. He seems to accept Hall's judgement, cites as impressive the request from Akpanya of Borada, and the…
1891 was a peaceful year in Kwahu, and they were able to carry on their work without political interruptions. In Abetifi 34 adults and 18 children were baptised. 5 adults were excluded for sins of coarseness and the flesh. One woman who had come onto…
He presents the school as the answer to the bad influence of idleness in which he sees children passing their days, and says that though Ramseyer in his addresses is always stressing the usefulness of schooling in his contacts with people, and though…
An answer to questions about marriages between Christians and heathens posed by the Basel Committee (see Anum letter no. 118). The answer is roughly the same as for Anum, though more detailed. Dieterle and Eisenschmid had both advised him in the…
The report is printed in two installments in the Heidenbote 1892 - p17f and p30f. Only one point is omitted - that he had very recently news that the Asante chief Yaw Sapong had threatened to fight the Asante Akims, and indeed some skirmishing had…
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