A German translation of extracts from the original French. He states that were Karikari on the throne there would be a good chance that the Mission would be allowed to start work in Kumasi. (31st Aug) Dilger returning from Agogo and Kumawu doubt if…
On the news brought by Kumawu ambassadors to Abetifi. Describes Kumawu as a small Asante province one day's journey west of Agogo, with the two main towns Kumawu and Bodumase. The messengers arrived on 15th August. Their report and requests were: A…
Transmitting reports on Asante Affairs which he had heard in Asuboa and Bompata. The first account he heard was that Kumasi had fought the other states, the latter wanting to reinstate Karikari as Asantehene. 600 people had died in the battle, The…
A report on the Mpraeso station, and his work. His 'history' of Mpraeso is that at first he had 7 catechumens, none of whom came to baptism in the end. Then there were a group of 4 who were baptised, and there are four more awaiting baptism now. His…
Concerned with two problems which arose during the Praetorius visit. He and Dilger are now quite at unity and Ramseyer wishes he had never written the letter which he did about their differences. And the community have asked forgiveness for the…
Concerned with the case of teacher Koranteng. Issues a stake seem to have been his idleness, and his idle manner. In a tense moment, too, Dilger seems to have been overcome by the thought that a man of this calibre would have a very lowly job in his…
A year of conflict and difficulty caused by the Christian scholars, not the heathens. Lies and disobedience were the main problems - and they were so serious that, he says, at one stage he told the pupils that if he were to die soon they would be his…
Appealing to the Committee for cover for a debt he has in is personal account. The circumstances leading to it include expenditure of £9 which in fact went on the Mpraeso house at a time when the Committee in Basel were holding expenditure down to…
2 pupils died during the year - one Ramseyer's houseboy, another an ordinary schoolboy, as yet unbaptised, though Dilger writes in his modesty and patience more of a Christian than some baptised boys. In writing about Ramseyer’s houseboy’s death,…
The report is mostly printed as an appendix to the 1884 Annual Report of the Mission, pp 77f. Additional material One of the people excluded in Mpaeso had stayed for a long time in Fante, and found the church discipline of the Basel Mission too…
3 additional families now housed on mission land at Anum. No preaching tours on the part of Asante, although he has been preaching and visiting assiduously in the Anum villages Apenkwa, Amanforo and Amoana. (Occupied with building). Movements in the…
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