First part is a Ga traditional account of the McCarthy war - Zimmermann says in the same sentence that he had it from the mouth of an elder (not specified) and implies that it is a popular history. It is certainly fairly crude. The cause is given as…
The first page of this report is a list of the members of the Christiansborg Basel Mission Church, divided into male and female, negro and mulatto, with with brief descriptions of people’s occupations. pp 24-25 are concerned with a short paragraph on…
Much of this report is taken up with the Durbar to celebrate the extension of English control on the coast – and is word for word identical with the Zimmerman quarter report No. 140.
Includes comments on the large number (relatively) of baptismal candidates current in Osu. On is a slave whom the Mission bought free six months ago and who has stayed with them ever since°. He has become a missionary among, the people from his area.…
Comments on the celebrations when British rule was consolidated – a gathering of the important chiefs in Christiansborg. The King from Kibi was the most noble of them, and the richest the King of Akim (this and other material from Zimmermann on the…
Made a short visit to Logong on Feb 6th, to talk to the baptismal candidate Sang who lived there. The report also offers a summary of Zimmermann's activities in the agricultural field since his arriving in Christiansborg. He made an experimental…
As with all his formal reports includes a discussion of his progress in learning twi. This one includes information on his informants – he has been endeavouring to meet people from many places in order to improve his grasp of the language, and among…
The first subject under discussion was Süss’ defection to Gyadam. The report includes a copy of Süss first letter from Gyadam dated 6 Sep 1853. He arrived on the 4th, and since has been living in the chief’s house, the chief giving him his food. Most…
During the Asante war-scare Obosompra at Abiru had told the Akropongs not to plant yams, and this was causing some difficulties with the yam custom (The Mission was under pressure to present a cow for the custom.).
Includes information about another slave, whose home-country was “Marrowa” where a dialect of Hausa is spoken. His master was an Asante who wanted to kill him because he could not carry a Ioad of salt. He fled to Akropong, but his master found out…
(a) his account of the war-scare adds nothing to what has already been said, except that Akwapim made its war-customs, and asked the British government for weapons, powder and lead. Mader points out that it was all a rumour- and compares it with a…
Reports panic in Akropong on the rumour that the Asante army is in Akim…His understanding of the war is that when two Asin princes entered into an agreement with the Asantehene, the British government imprisoned them in Cape Coast, on which an Asante…
News has been brought by Peki people to the Baael Mission in Christiansborg that an Asante-Akwamu treaty has been concluded in which Asante has promised to help Akwamu restore Crepi to its territories: after that Akwamu will assist Asante in an…
Includes further comments on the census figures (Second Half Year Report No 75). Now states that the inhabitants of the villages did not include the numbers of their slaves and slaves’ children.
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