The bulk of this report is printed in Heidenbote 1888, pp76ff. Additional points: It is impossible to preach if there is a fetish ceremony at which the bulk of the people are present. Dente is a normal sight at the entrance to a Kwahu village. At…
Martin Pereku and Immanuel Agyepong were transferred to the Middle-School in Begoro. The loss of numbers in the school at the reduction of the chop-money was only.3, all from Bepong. When boys run away from the school Tschopp finds the parents quite…
Personnel - Schmid to Aburi in March, Lehmann in Abetifi April-September when he was needed to fill an unexpected gap in the rank of missionaries in Akropong. 16 Christians moved away from Abetifi. A kernel of the community in Abetifi makes them very…
Because the first mission buildings in the 1860s had used the easily accessible wood they were having to fetch beams from sites an hour away. One carrier was so badly injured by an accident on one of these occasions that he died the following day.
There are 6 houses on the mission land at Tosen, 16 at Boso, no figures for the other stations. Personnel of the district: Johannes Müller Peter Hall (Ntwumuru). Chr. Tenkorang (Tutunya) Chr Asiedu (Amfoi) Heinrich Lieb, Nik. Clerk plus the helpers…
Partly printed as an annex to the 1889 Annual Report, pp46ff. Additional material: They plan to build a small cistern on the station; there is already one in Odumase. Their masons seem all to have come from Akwapim. There is the usual trouble about…
Continuing the history of the Tafiewe war - the second Peki expedition joined up with the Hausas apparently under English command, but the Pekis especially were severely led by the Tafiewes who fired from ambushes and from holes they had dug in the…
The greater proportion of the people he judges are pawned - he met one man who has been pawned to three masters for debts of 40, 50, and 100 shillings respectively, and works for each on certain days of the week - he has hardly any time for himself.…
Reporting varying degrees of preparedness for the arrival of a teacher in Krepe country: - Botoku – the chief undecided, apparently worried about the impact of a school on the fetishes - Tutunya - they had set aside a place already cleaned for the…
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