This comments on the geographical analysis of Mohr (see No. 162) - his idea about Nsutam is inpracticable in that it is seperated from the rest of the Begoro area by the Birim. Buck would be happy to see Samang under Osino if there were a catechist…
Teacher Adu had to be expelled for adultery, and while catechist Ntow has worked well he has hadmany difficulties over getting married. His first intended was strongly suspected of having committed adultery with a catechist in Aburi, his second was…
He has written a letter in French to the Neuchatel friends concerning his journey to Anum. There is a rumour abroad that the Asantes are bestirring themselves to gain control of Kwahu again. Many of the chiefs wish this, although the young men are…
Statistics for the year: Missionaries - the Ramseyers only. Catechist - Stephen Sakyi (married) Teacher - Emm. Dako (married) Reports a difficult year, at the beginning of which the station did not have a graveyard, while now there is a graveyard…
Teacher Adu at Begoro is from Kukurantumi, a small but busy man, of the best students of his year. He has just married a very simply Christian girl from his home town, and seems happy and at peace. (He seems too on good terms with Eisenschmid). The…
The Catholic who visited Kumasi was from Sierra Leone, he visited Buha when he came to Accra. His visit to Kumasi was a private project - there was no suggestion of a Catholic mission being set up in Kumasi. Indeed he felt that until the arbitrary…
On the subject of the English regime, its relations with Basel etc. - Buhl as Mission Treasurer in Christiansborg seems held to have a watching brief over events on the Gold Coast for the Basel Committee. He reports the relations between Ramseyer and…
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