A report on his arrival in Kibi and his early activities in the School. Koforidua he found in two parts - old Koforidua now deserted, and with the houses falling in, and new Koforidua, ten minutes further away from Akropong. At Kukurantumi they had…
1. The report of Mader’s inspection. The pupils performed well or very well in biblical history, biblical geography, reading, religious knowledge, natural history. In arithmetic a good groundwork had been laid. Teacher Ako should use his picture book…
In the course of the year Missionary Haas had joined the station. There were 34 members of the community at the end of 1870 (there had been 37 the previous year), 17 communicants (21 before), and 6 catechumens. There were 15 pupils in the boarding…
Reports a great deal of activity in fetish customs, especially led by a woman of the royal house, the matron Sekyira. He interprets this as intended to restore fetishes to their earlier reverence, and also to hinder street-preaching. Their reception…
Some of the schoolboys had hoped that the missionaries, acting as their fathers, would provide them with weapons for the war. Akim had been urged to join the alliance against Asante by messengers from the native king of Accra, and the ‘Fante…
Applies through the Slave Emancipation Commission for 40 dollars to obtain the release of Opuni, a man enslaved to a relative at Kukurantumi after he had travelled to Akim to find his family, his mother having been an Akira woman taken to Asante…
Transmitting information about the missionary prisoners obtained from an Asante released after capture by the Crepes who was in Kibi. The missionaries had been taken prisoner, and before chief Openten it had had to be decided whether they were to be…
Announces rumours that the Asantes were encamped near Bomoso - the missionaries were regretting not having sent loads off to Accra with the Accra people. Mader’s subscript doubts the number of Asantes at the Akim frontier - an Abosu man had been…
Korrespondenz mit Gesandtschaft in Beijing und Konsulat in Swatau und Kanton. Enthält auch zwei Briefe von Otto Schultze / Correspondence with the German Embassy in Beijing and the German Consulates in Swatau and Canton.Containts also two letters by…
grösstenteils handschriftlich, darunter Briefe, . Rechnungen, Trauerbriefe und zwei sehr gut erhaltene Schutzbriefe mit Originalstempel der Armee, siehe auch A.126 / most of the documents are hand-written, they include e.g. letters, bills, letters of…
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