Ramseyer feels Missionary Marquart would only be happy in a ‘marquartish’ Mission. He has ignored the real progress made in getting rid of the system of total support from outside. Both Ramseyer and Müller say that Marquart lacks the proper…
On account of Christmas many Akim Christians were at the coast but he was able to meet the assembled community nevertheless. He was impressed by the spirit of the Kibi community - it did him good to feel it - and felt that there there was little…
Links his resignation strongly with the Schott affair - they had laid considerable emphasis on I Cor 9vv1-14 in their dealings with local employees, and he is also very disillusioned with the exploitative attitude of the Christians to the…
He links his resignation with that of Inspector Schott. He did not wish to be connected with a mission which, supported on the whole by people in poor and middling circumstances, spent so much of its money supporting the local community and the local…
Okanta in a written reply to the charges claimed to have bought only 12/- India rubber from three Christian women, and claimed that Date had done as much. He denied collecting rubber, and as for forbidding the community to tell stories to white men…
Concerning Evangelist Okanta. It has appeared that-Okanta had been dealing in India-rubber. When faced with this he eventually admitted this was true, and accused most of his local colleagues of the same. Pressed he named Sakyi. Marquart also…
Concerns whether or not the Basel Mission should expand into the West - it looks like an evaluation of the work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society inter al.
It includes the geography all worked out. Following Asante, he entered the western outlying province of Akyease, then isolated from the rest of Akim Abuskwa by Kotoku. The only towns on which he comments in Akim Abuakwa proper were Osenese, ready for…
He travelled Accra-Okurease-Asiemang along a route much used by Kotoku traders. It was difficult to find lodging in Okurease because of the number of people resting the overnight. He had a discussion with a fetish priest in Okurease. En route from…
This is an account of an event in Adadentem in January 1883. As they came to the town through the forest they heard an enormous uproar, and when Buck appeared the people immediately ran to him for an opinion on their argument and he had to remind…
‘Some having been suffered from different disease were swept away by death, whom on their dying bed the grace of the Lord did appear in them’. Attendance at services is again cited as evidence of the liveliness of religion in the community. In Apapam…
Asante records the Asantehene as saying in reply to their approaches that when his town had been built up again as it had been before then he would welcome-any white man who wanted to visit him, and -welcome following visits, too. Asante also…
The first half mcstly reports the proceedings of the Akim Synod. The 2/3d church tax was put before the Synod as a new measure. The inspector's journey into Akim coincided two deaths - Mrs Buck and Missionary Krauss. Praetorius was also quite ill…
Asks to send him, by Isaac Tisnyahu (?) petroleum, the money, wick, worm medicine for Kwasi Adae, matches, one bundle-of needles. He also complains at the travelling allowance of 6d a day, claiming that everyone else gets 9d a day.
Asks for re-instatement claiming that he has not done this before on the grounds that his mother in law would not permit his wife to become a Christian, but now she is dead. His account of the troubles of the 1870s is that he was not received with…
Asks for a middle school in Akim on the grounds that the Akwapim teachers in Akropong look after their own people better than they do the Akims (this calls the Middle School a Grammar School).
Asking for consideration of the fact that they have a long distance to go to their homes in Akwapim, and there is a long distance to go to the coast for salt etc., while Akim paths are bad and bearers can only be hired-for 6d-9d per day. Also their…
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