Report of a preaching tour by D.R. Ashong and the boys of the Begoro Middle School in Kwahu at Easter 1888. There was a serious case between a member of the Bepong congregation and the local fetish priest.
The Kwahu treaty with the list of the names of the chiefs signing. The Abetifi missionaries apparently signed as witnesses. About the conclusion of the contract see No. 85.
Report on a visit to Asante Akim. He remarks that he has been twice delayed by the war in Eastern Ashanti, and indeed did not go so far as Agogo partly, because he heard that there were very few people in that town, but more because he wanted to…
Writes a good deal in terms of the joy of walking around in the country and climbing hills. Also contrasts the state of roads in the homeland and 'even in Russia' with those of Kwahu. He makes the effort to convey the colour of the landscape - Obo…
Report on the acceptance of Kwahu in the English Gold Coast colony. Ramseyer says tout court that in the race of extortion by people coming out of the colony in the days before Kwahu was under British law the missionaries stood by the Kwahu people -…
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…
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