Asks for an increase of their personal allowance in Akim from £65 to £68, and for a 10% increase in the general sums paid to them. Reasons - the higher cost of food and the lower value of gold, and the fact that in using gold dust for small sums…
A small part of this letter is printed in Heidenbote 1861, p-.20 Defending the choice of Kukurantumi as a centre for the mission Strömberg locates the Akira frontier as going nearly as far as Obom so that the people of Koforidua and Agweso are Akims.…
A part of this letter is quoted in the Heidenbote 1860, p.20. There is some additional material. In June the Kibi camp seems to have been in the region of Tekyiman, which Strömberg describes as a town under Kukurantumi. Not only Gyadam but Mosiaso…
A part of this letter is printed in the Heidenbote 1861, p.20. Extra material includes the suggestion that they should make a way direct from Kukurantumi to Accra, or at least to Aburi, to avoid the steep hill en route to Akropong at Ahabante.
The letter is partly printed in Heidenbote 1861 p.20 (This with its continuation on p 25 is a catena of quotations from letters concerning Kukurantumi). It includes the additional information that there is plenty- of visible sickness in Kukurantumi.…
Mainly devoted to his description of the destruction of Gyadam. It includes another instance of the title European being applied to Africans in European clothes – this time an Accra man working on the Gyadam station was called a European by some…
Of the two roads from Kwahu to Asante-Akim the one through Obo, Akwasihu to Bompata is the better. - being much more travelled. To avoid going the same road both to and from Asante-Akim, however, the missionaries usually-travel into Asante Akim among…
Concerning progress in the school for evangelists. Martin Ako has had to be sent away from the school - he was poorly gifted, and also had the wrong attitudes; he was looking for a comfortable post (This was the ex-Congo pupil). The report goes…
The party about 50 strong - the date before Christmas 1897. An English officer from the interior had lodged with the Abetifihene the night before - the pupils sang to him en route through the town, and he in turn dashed Jost a few silver coins for…
Includes an application for £77 to cover extensive repairs needed by the Abetifi mission house - including the roof. There is trouble over the adultery fees regulation in the Abetifi community. In the 1894 Twi district conference it was agreed that…
A testimonial for Sam. Boateng in connection with the Abetifi missionaries' pressure for him to be ordained. In giving some idea of Boateng's success in Asante Akim Perregaux writes that the Asante Akim people have been able to gain an easy living…
In a long passage about the experiences of a young missionary Jost remarks how rewarding it is to be involved with youth in schools - for there one is helping to modify the way of life of the people. During the year the numbers of pupils increased…
Reports a disappointing year in the Evangelists' School - three pupils leaving at the beginning of the second term. They have made a cocoa plantation and a corn plantation - he tried potatoes but the rain stopped too early, and they failed. Reviews…
Over the whole station area the increase in the Christian community in the year was 220. Nevertheless movement into the church is still a matter of individual decisions though among the great mass of the people many acknowledge the truth they are…
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