Very few results have been obtained in Nkonya in the year in question – the Ntwumuru congregation consists of 7 adults from Ntwumuru, 5 from Betaniase, and 2 from Wurupon. He too is worried about the advisability of baptising Christian young men -…
Arriving in Adele at the beginning of February 1896 he discovered that Smallpox had broken out, and the villages were deserted because all the people had fled to their farms. Mischlich himself was able to avert a battle between the Adele people and…
He remarks en passant that not one of the Akwapim workers in the Ewe districts has yet learned to preach in the peoples’ mother tongue, and some have been for 8 years.
Includes the point that the German Government official in Krakye has offered to send him ex-slave children for his school; that the chief of Agba wants to send a son to the school in Akropong, that he was being brought a large number of illnesses and…
Reports a case of a husband who has having, difficulties becoming a Christian - he was a polygamist, and one of his wives had also had her name written down, perhaps in the hope of being the chosen wife. She was somewhat weak in body, however, often…
A letter on the practical economics of Adele. He writes that there is very little food to be bought - a lot of the Adele people themselves earn their living in the rubber trade and there is little surplus. Meat is hard to obtain - you see some cows,…
Reports being asked to be present and give advice at a meeting of the Worawora chief and elders. He saw them choose two (out of four candidates) as heads of the young men. They then discussed a series of reforms in custom in line with what the…
The report contains the history of the interrelations between Akpanya, the Borada king, the Christians, and the Kodonko fetish of Atonko. It is summarised anonymously in Heidenbote 1897 pp.28-29. The three brothers, from whom a successor to the dead…
The report deals specifically with Buem and Adele. Mohr lists the Buem villages he knows of: Worawora, with 2 villages Apeso, NNE of Worawora, with 2 villages Asato, Kagyabi, Nsuta NE and E of Worawora Tapa-Amanya, W of Worawora with 8 small…
Confirms that he spent this time in Adele in bed. Having read some of David Asante's reports on the area he considers that the knowledge of Twi must have reduced considerably in the intervening decade. There was an Asante ‘Governor’ (Statthalter) in…
He recommends Katsenke over Taps as a place for a European station partly on the grounds that the people in that district have shown themselves not very receptive to the gospel though it is also true that though they are only 24 hours away from…
A 35 page report of a journey into Tschantscho, with a detailed map (see No. 181). This account is partly printed in Heidenbote 1896 p94-95, as also in Missionsmagazin 1897, p188ff and 249. Additional material: Under his comments for 25th Jun, his…
An accompanying letter to the report No. 180. He had had a German Government official living-in Bismarckburg with him for 4 weeks - this man had used 'every opportunity' to recommend his missionary work to the people. The priest-king of Siare was…
A reply to a circular from Mr. von Jacoby in Berlin, apparently over the question of the sale of spirits in German colonies. Martin makes clear that what he says is approximate - he has made enquiries, but sources do not always agree. There is no…
Offers two instances of 'rescue operations' in which he had been involved: (a) A woman of Dofoli was returning from Blitta where she had been present at a funeral customs with her children when she was captured by a Blitta man. Her children had been…
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