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…
He reports a 22-house Christian village in Kibi and 14 house-village in Kukurantumi. Of the other Christian centres he reports changes in Tumfa where a catechist's house has been built, Asiamang and Apedwa where a house was in the process of being…
The process ended on May 10th. The jury was almost completely made up of local people, Ata having 'forbidden' Europeans from serving. All the other points except complicity in the ritual murder were found against the prosecution by the jury - there…
Part of this report is published in Heidenbote 1881, pp27ff. To the end of the first paragraph in the printed section about the Akim community being made up of freed slaves is more explicit in the report: Without the king's positivity it would have…
A request to promote Cat. Mullings to Deacon. First reason - the size of the Asiakwa community following recent gains. Second reason - Mullings, 30 years old, West Indian stock, is the first catechist and founder of the church in Asiakwa. His love of…
Report major increases in the population of school age children of Christians in Akim. The school is not the answer to the problem of what to do with them - inter al they are needed on the farms, and many of them are girls. They have already set up a…
One of the school teachers had been called to Accra for the case against Ata. Buck's way of finding out how things had gone during the absence of himself and one of the teachers was to order a quick inspection of clothes and books. The results were…
The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1880, pp90-91. Additional information: He describes Asuum as the same size as Begoro, and names the Ashanti town which one reaches after 1.5 days from Asuum Oboku. Several months before a fetish priest had…
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