(Both of these officials are called Müller – the Praeses Johannes Müller and the School Inspector Johann Michael Müller) An applicaticn for a teacher for Kwahu - it is not clear whether for Abetifi or Obo - to open a 'free school', and for another…
Much of this report is printed as appendix to the 1885 Annual Report Jahresbericht (pp65f part 1). In a subscript to the Manuscript Ramseyer reports that this is the same old Abraham in Mpraeso about whom he has written: he feels sure that he is lame…
Reports his safe homecoming from the Salaga journey after having had no illness on the way. He found Attebubu 8 days journey from Abetifi, but only 3 days from Asante Mampong, which like Nsuta is only 1 ½ days from Kumawu. These towns having broken…
The first stop on the journey was Akwasiho at the foot of the scarp near Obo - where the chief offered to board Dilger and Kwabi in his owe house, but Dilger refused on the grounds that it was a hospital for lepers. Shortly before they entered Praso…
Giving the background to the decision about financial support etc. The idea was that a free school elsewhere in Kwahu (Obo was favoured unanimously, Ramseyer pointing out that a teacher’s presence would support the boys who had once registered as…
Written by Dilger. At the beginning of the year a heathen boy died – although his quiet modest ways had impressed the missionaries - his heathen relatives asked the fetish the cause of his death, which was attributed to his being at school. At which…
Written by Dilger. Personnel on the station: Dilger and his wife Johannes Tschopp Catechist S. Boateng Catechist W. Mensa Evangelist P. Tiko Mpraseo: Catechist Kwabi Bepong: Catechist N. Afwireng On Good Friday of 1884 Dilger and his wife believed…
Report on his journey through Salaga and Obooso in the first quarter of the year. This appears to be the manuscript behind the second part of the Christaller/Asante typescript in the library (see D.132 in the so called "Betriebsdokumentation) - or at…
Written by David Asante. The Boso community had built a new swish-wall chapel, and this has shamed the Anun community into starting a similar chapel. The Anum community lost 2 members by exclusion, and 1 through death (a child). It gained 5 by…
It is between his knowing that Beko and Boamma had met Praetorius in Begoro and his knowing the contents of their letter. In this it is clear that he feared that Boamma in particular had complaints to make about Ramseyer's treatment.
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