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Gives the names of the recently baptised: In Kukurantumi Jonas Pabi, Adolph Anokye, Benj. Joshua Tachumase, Emmanuel Owu-adere, David Afum, Daniel Osei. In Kibi Georg Bonte. He reports that among Agyeman’s other crimes towards the Asantes was the…

The letter concerning the ware scare is printed in Heidenbote 1863 pp79ff.

Includes reports concerning relations with the Okyenhene. His drinking is so serious that he elders are becoming opposed to him. Also he seized an Accra man working on the station for debt, and only after much pressure from the mission accepted…

In Kibi school numbers are relatively stable at 15, boys whom the King and elders ‘gave’ to the school. They attend fairly regularly and many of them would like to live on the station. Some seem to be really gaining something from baptismal…

The station is called the white-man's village by the Kibi people. During 1863 catechist Joseph Ofei had to be excluded for immorality. They have had little time for preaching journeys beyond the immediate surroundings of Kibi but have preached…

There are papers concerning the proposed journey to Kumasi on the part of Missionaries Harneck and Asante. The mission were already clearly considering the point that Asante had relatives in Kumasi, and wondering what could be made of this, but the…

It appears that the sawyers employed on their first house in Kibi were Accra men.

He details his family circumstances for the Basel Committee.

Submits his judgment to that of the Committee extensively, though not in such a way as to invalidate the tensions expressed in his letter. No 3 above.

He takes back his request to resign - thinking over the situation he is still worried about his mother, but thinks that the fact that he has learned Twi (and has had one piece of bible translation in the language approved by the Censur Commission)…
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