An accompanying letter to the report No. 180. He had had a German Government official living-in Bismarckburg with him for 4 weeks - this man had used 'every opportunity' to recommend his missionary work to the people. The priest-king of Siare was…
A 35 page report of a journey into Tschantscho, with a detailed map (see No. 181). This account is partly printed in Heidenbote 1896 p94-95, as also in Missionsmagazin 1897, p188ff and 249. Additional material: Under his comments for 25th Jun, his…
He recommends Katsenke over Taps as a place for a European station partly on the grounds that the people in that district have shown themselves not very receptive to the gospel though it is also true that though they are only 24 hours away from…
Confirms that he spent this time in Adele in bed. Having read some of David Asante's reports on the area he considers that the knowledge of Twi must have reduced considerably in the intervening decade. There was an Asante ‘Governor’ (Statthalter) in…
The report deals specifically with Buem and Adele. Mohr lists the Buem villages he knows of: Worawora, with 2 villages Apeso, NNE of Worawora, with 2 villages Asato, Kagyabi, Nsuta NE and E of Worawora Tapa-Amanya, W of Worawora with 8 small…
The report contains the history of the interrelations between Akpanya, the Borada king, the Christians, and the Kodonko fetish of Atonko. It is summarised anonymously in Heidenbote 1897 pp.28-29. The three brothers, from whom a successor to the dead…
Reports being asked to be present and give advice at a meeting of the Worawora chief and elders. He saw them choose two (out of four candidates) as heads of the young men. They then discussed a series of reforms in custom in line with what the…
A letter on the practical economics of Adele. He writes that there is very little food to be bought - a lot of the Adele people themselves earn their living in the rubber trade and there is little surplus. Meat is hard to obtain - you see some cows,…
Reports a case of a husband who has having, difficulties becoming a Christian - he was a polygamist, and one of his wives had also had her name written down, perhaps in the hope of being the chosen wife. She was somewhat weak in body, however, often…
Includes the point that the German Government official in Krakye has offered to send him ex-slave children for his school; that the chief of Agba wants to send a son to the school in Akropong, that he was being brought a large number of illnesses and…
He remarks en passant that not one of the Akwapim workers in the Ewe districts has yet learned to preach in the peoples’ mother tongue, and some have been for 8 years.
Arriving in Adele at the beginning of February 1896 he discovered that Smallpox had broken out, and the villages were deserted because all the people had fled to their farms. Mischlich himself was able to avert a battle between the Adele people and…
Very few results have been obtained in Nkonya in the year in question – the Ntwumuru congregation consists of 7 adults from Ntwumuru, 5 from Betaniase, and 2 from Wurupon. He too is worried about the advisability of baptising Christian young men -…
A number of ex-pupils of the Worawora School are now apprentices to craftsmen. One problem in schoolwork is, of course, language. Even in Worawora the neople say they do not understand Akwapim Twi as well as Akim or Asante, and Clerk, though an…
Part of this report is printed as an annex to the 1897 Annual Report p 62ff. Additional material: In the course of the year Adele (Mischlich) Borada (Jak. Agyei), Botoku (Corn. Otu), Evhudidi (Cat. Ohene-Asa) were newly settled by mission agents. Sam…
The letter includes a report of yet another attempt to revive Atie Yaw. A new Atie Yaw appeared, after the word had gone around that the Atie Yaw found the previous year was not the real Atie Yaw - after all, after the expulsion of Bowi the real Atie…
There was an increase of 88 in the total Christian community of the Abetifi district in 1895. The largest increases were in Abetifi and Pepeaee, though in neither case was the increase very large, and in Abetifi it had to be balanced against 8…
The report lists Patriensa, Odumase and Agogo as being places where the mission owns land. The total Christian community in the Abetifi area increased by 192 in the course of the year. Mission personnel: Ramseyer to Kumasi, Perregaux to Switzerland,…
The letter contains the text of the short note sent by Resident Pigeot to Ramseyer - dated Kintampo 1st September 1896 - informing him of the existence of the slave party and asking him if he were prepared to take them over.
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