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…
handschriftliche Briefe von anderen Basler Missionaren in China an W. Oehler und teilweise E. & W. Oehler vor August 1914 / handwritten letters of other Basel missionaries in China to W. Oehler and partly E. & W. Oehler before August 1914
Briefe u.a. von Louise Maisch, Valerie Maurer-Ziegler, Dora Fritz, Marie Wunderli, Emma Schmoll, , E. Lehmann, Luise Mech, L. Sautter, Elisabeth Schneider, Lydia Lohss. Luise Baehr, Elisabeth Schmid, Jeanne Bornand, Jenny Bay, Luise Maute, Anna…
The woman involved - it seems to have been generally accepted - though often on mission land had no sustained relationship with Asante. She was a mulatto wife of the elder Kwasi Amoako. Asante confessed quickly after the event and the Kibi…
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