First visit to Kwabeng. Krauss preached - the people all agreed with him -he asked them when they would enter the community - they said sometime he wanted to know when and they could not say. He asked why they did not send their children to learn…
The half-year from January was a difficult one following Anoba's departure for Abomosu, and the dismissal of the remaining two teachers. Botwe especially is quite without penitence and has gone to work in Akuse. The immediate substitutes were not…
Concerning the Kukurantumi congregation: Reports that a couple he had previously reported ill are becoming insane, and dependent on the help of the goodhearted. Three people were excluded in the half-year, (adultery) but two recent exclusions had…
He had spent a month and a half in Abomosu in 1877 preparing people for baptism. On return he had to exclude 5 people for adultery. He found only three houses on mission land, and his own house still has no windows or doors. His first preaching in…
The report is two-thirds concerned with a journey to West Akim. He talks about Kotoku and mentions Katawere as being a major source of opposition to Christianity. In Asuboa the people flocked to write down their names, saying their fetish had been…
The report contains information on the history of Imm. Boakye. It seems almost totally reproduced in the Kollektenblatt No 139, 1883. Additional material in the manuscript: The Juaben king whose nephew Boakye was (Boakye's father was his brother) was…
Missionaries severely affected by illness in the course of the year - D. Huppenbauer being forced to return to Europe, and Munz and Krauss being several times forced away to convalesce in Begoro or Akropong. At Kibi the number in the community at the…
A general report of his travels in the 3rd quarter of the year, the first of which had taken place while he was still a Begoro missionary. He stresses the usefulness of visiting small villages where you can meet people as individuals and talk to…
The first part of the report is a lament at the lack of local personnel, with acerbic footnotes from J. Müller indicating that the lack is not so severe as depicted. Huppenbauer suggests an Evangelists' School in Kibi - they have 3 young men in mind…
In the recent past the community had lost two adults (including a Presbyter) by death and. 6 children, 4 adults were excluded. In the building of the new chapel the pulpit and altar were built by Buss in Kibi and transported to Kukurantumi. They had…
There is correspondence about financial administration at Kibi in March-May of this year. It is opened by a Basel Committee letter dated 14 March 1881 (presumably to find in the D-2 series). Folio 41-2 in which the points are made: 1. that the…
Reporting on health he writes that a couple from Nta had suffered from 'Gyato', a local disease. 2 members were excluded in the year, two suspended. He is doing street preaching in Kukurantumi once a month, and only once travelled to Tafo/Osiem or…
He expresses himself as worried by the great promotion to being pastor of the Kibi congregation with its many responsibilities, including the building work required. He seems to have a directing role. He reports opposition to the conversion of slave…
5 ex-pupils of the school entered the Middle School at the beginning of the school year, while 5 more entered the teacher's seminary. Three of the latter have already come away - they say on account of the many blows they had received. Huppenbauer…
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