En passant in a discussion of the need for a higher grant for travelling in Kwahu Ramseyer gives as examples of the problems which frequently come up and need settlement: 1. That the chief in Pepease has forbidden the Christians from scooping up…
A short note accompanying a manuscript for the Le Missionaire, but including the point that Catechist Boateng in Bompata is visited by people from all parts of Asante Akim.
Includes the information that a son of a presbyter called Anno had recently left the school to work on his father's farms after twice going through Class V - the same applied to a step-son of James Boamma, who had gone to help his step-father in his…
Considers that the villages at the foot of the Kwahu scarp are more numerous than they had at first thought, or indeed now know. There are many ways crossing each other, and they have not explored all of them. The catechist placed at Ntawadua has not…
A report of a journey to Asante Akim during the Long Vacation 1893. In 1891/1892 Asante Akim was severely threatened by Yaw Sepong - at one time Bompata was full of armed Asantes. Catechist Boateng played a major role in maintaining the peace, and…
His first report on the Nkoranza war. His information on events in Asante (he offers this is in the face of the many rumours circulating) is that about 1,5 years previously Nkoranza had declared itself independent of Asante, whereon Prempeh had…
A sequel to the letter No. 134 above. The 'mitrailleuse' is some sort of gun firing rockets. The English officers are now all on the station which they admire - several are hawing to live in the houses of the Christian families. The 400 hausas are…
A continuation of his reports on Buem customs. Hunter’s dance: This takes place when a young hunter kills any of the larger animals - e.g. a buffalo. He must send the flesh home before returning himself, and when he does return, he must stay in the…
Reports on the life of the Missios House in Anum. They have 14 boys living with them, 6 from Gyakiti the rest from other areas. This is an unusually large number, since they have difficulty arranging to pay them all etc. With them they have planned a…
Paints the picture of the pressures of debt and the sources of debt. He offers as one example a Toseng Christian Moses a man in the prime of life, still working off a £5 fine he suffered after committing adultery in his heathen days by working for…
The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1893 pp90ff. The article is giving a balanced lecture of slavery and the Volta slave trade, though this part of it is not taken from Rösler.
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