Informs the Basel Committee that he has been able to buy a piece of land opposite the station on the other side of the Bantama Road - this was important because of the danger of being in close proximity with Fante liquor-bars. They received the…
The letter is printed in full in Sklavenheim 1898, pp2-7. It is a general account of the progress of the slave-colony to date. There is a Ramseyer letter in Le Missionaire 1898, pp55-57. It does say that they had been advising the Sklavenfreund…
Reports that the war-danger has been significantly reduced - the chiefs are not united as they were two months ago, but the proposed leader has refused to undertake his role, and the notable village of Ofinso is refusing to participate.
Concerning the political situation in Asante – their Kumasi catechist had asked him to write to Accra that no more loads should be sent up - any day things could blow up. The children living with them in the houses, and in the slave home, are full of…
Report an incident in which they were warned by some Kumasi chiefs that war would break out with the English forces if one of their number was punished - apparently for failing to get Kumasi fully 'cleaned' by a certain day. (The incident apparently…
He sends in the accounts of the slave home in the second half of 1897. Expenditure £40, which with the gifts left only £3 to be covered by the Mission.
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