There had been several dangerous illnesses among the European staff - Martin having repeated attacks of yellow fever and Mrs Rösler being dangerously ill after the birth of her first child. A new European missionary joined the station - Obrecht.…
In a short letter about approved scales of furniture for catechists etc. houses, Ramseyer suggests that these be increased - they cannot expect the catechist to sleep on the approved bed stead without wanting one for his wife, similarly rather than…
He has been in the habit of allowing the costs of 8-10 loads for younger catechists, and 10-12 loads for older ones. This allows them to take provisions with them, salt, parrafin, mattresses. Any child is allocated one load. He would like also a rule…
A further short report on Asante Akim. The chief of Asante Akim has recently asked him to write on his behalf to the Governor, asking to be taken into the English protectorate. Ramseyer has hopes that this will happen, since Ateobu has recently been…
The report is printed in two installments in the Heidenbote 1892 - p17f and p30f. Only one point is omitted - that he had very recently news that the Asante chief Yaw Sapong had threatened to fight the Asante Akims, and indeed some skirmishing had…
An answer to questions about marriages between Christians and heathens posed by the Basel Committee (see Anum letter no. 118). The answer is roughly the same as for Anum, though more detailed. Dieterle and Eisenschmid had both advised him in the…
He presents the school as the answer to the bad influence of idleness in which he sees children passing their days, and says that though Ramseyer in his addresses is always stressing the usefulness of schooling in his contacts with people, and though…
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