Part of this report is printed as an annex to the 1893 Annual Report pp48ff with two case studies of converts. Changes in personnel - boarding master at Abetifi B. Martinson, Sam. Kwafo to Mpraeso, D. Okyere to Nkwatia P. Tieku to Asakraka, Imm…
During the year they had a case of a boy whose heathen mother was married to a Christian father and lived in the Abetifi Salem. When he was due to be promoted from the small-children’s school to the Boarding School his heathen relatives would not…
He sends a script through Basel for the Missionaire. He also mentions that he thought at first his uncle (Fritz Ramseyer) was too strict with the people, but he sees now that he is quite right in the way he goes to work.
Contains some information about his children. Their son Paul went to New Mexico to farm in June, with Ed. Perregaux' brother. Emmanuel is studying to be an architect. Rosy helps in the house.
Description of the Mission Anniversary. Some weeks before the anniversary there was almost no-one in Abetifi because everyone had gone off to try to gain some money for the missionary anniversary offering - hunting fishing and carrying loads are…
There had been several dangerous illnesses among the European staff - Martin having repeated attacks of yellow fever and Mrs Rösler being dangerously ill after the birth of her first child. A new European missionary joined the station - Obrecht.…
Building - the walls of his house are finished, and those of the teacher's house soon will be - and in the course of the year they have built a chapel. They have had considerable help from the scholars and catechumens. In Worawora the entity is less…
Includes the information that while the influenza was not severe, whole villages were bedridded with it at the same time. The started formal school in February.
Reports that in Anum the influenz was claiming 3-4 people a day at its height, often young people, e.g. the chief Kwasi Kumit whom Martin describes as in the prime of life. His successor was middle-aged - Obese Kwasi. The bulk of the report is…
Part of this report is printed in Heidenbote 1892 pp20-21. Points not published: He repeats earlier material about the divisions among the Buems: 1. Worawora, Tapa, Apeso, and Asabo speak a corrupt Twi. Clerk thinks they have learned it from Kwahu…
He describes the Anyinam Terry in some detail, a real piece of 'African technology' (he clearly means this in a complimentary sense, offering the Twi ‘abibifio nyansa’). It is a raft 8’ square whose main timbers are three stout forked branches. While…
It includes a biography of Phil Kwabi. He was born a house slave, his mother having been stolen away from Akudome in Krepi by the Akwamus and sold to Akropong. (His birth date is given as 1834-6). He was given to Mader to bring up, entering the…
He writes that he worked very happily with Kwabi - he has an 'inner life' and knows how to go about things with the people. Two problems emerged - that he was too fond of settling disputes, and also fond of dispensing medicine. Ramseyer considers he…
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