It is a first report of the fight between Christians and fetish-servers also mentioned in his report for 1865 (see No. 33). The two descriptions of the event tally: and in this report the detail is added that he actually heard the anti-Christian…
States that an elder of Tafo had wanted to send all his children to school, but could not in the face of the opposition of the fetish priests of Tafo and Kukurantumi. All but two of the boys in the previous Kukurantumi school - and they are the…
Concerned mainly with a visit to Kukurantumi. Eisenschmid reports that people in Kukurantumi are disturbed by the land case, and that there were no inhabitants to be seen in the two villages between Kibi and Kukurantumi (Asafo and Akoko) on account…
It seems that Burckhardt's misdeameanours in Kukurantumi were small scale embezzlements of mission funds or goods, plus deviousness when these points were being investigated.
He writes that he has been visited by Feni, the chief of Begoro - a man rather less well disposed to them than the chiefs of Asiakwa and Kukurantumi. Written as a subscript to this report is a translation of 8 Fante lyrics (into German), some of the…
Remarks that it makes him sad to see land which god did not create to be empty unpeopled and uncultivated, and that the Akems export only Kopal varnish to the coast. Having met the chief and elders of Kibi he writes that several are well-disposed to…
The Christians had only at the end of 1865 decided to settle themselves on Mission Land. Teacher Ewyi is a Kukurantumi man, and though he has many good qualities is too timid about getting into conflict with Kukurantumi families to exercise proper…
Statistics - Christaller and Eisenschmid in Kibi with their wives, Kromer at Kukurantumi. Chr. Asante is the catechist at Kibi, Kromer is assisted by teacher Andreas Ewyi. At Kibi Jonathan Palmer is Christaller's language informant. At Kibi the…
Includes a short section on Kibi. It refers to Abraham Atitsogbe, who bought the slave of an Asante who was killed in the recent fighting between Asante and Akim for 3 dollars. He then made her his wife, with the concurrence of the missionaries,…
Reports that when it was announced that the they were to run a boarding school Atta immediately asked how much the boys would receive for attending, and when told that they would get board and clothing issued the following laws: That no-one was to…
Kromer reports that the chiefs of Begoro, Asiakwa and Kukurantumi have visited them more than once. The Asiakwa chief named Diedu is not loved by the Okyenhene whom he often openly accuses. His town and the villages under it are more open to the…
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