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.
Reports that war has been going on for months between the Asantes and Nkoranza. Nkoranza has asked Krakye Dente for help, and now Krakye Dente has twice asked Buem for assistance, though Buem is refusing, Clerk appears to connect this with the…
121 baptisms (90 adults +31 children) of heathen over the whole area, a new spirit in many communities, and 23 exclusions. European missionaries - Obrecht and Lehmann left for work in Akwapim, Martin returned to the station from his furlough in…
Includes a report of an incident-in which he apologised to a man for failing to return a visit in the customary way - and a report of locusts in the Anum area not dated but almost certainly during the preceding quarter. He describes a visit to a sick…
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