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.
He travelled Accra-Okurease-Asiemang along a route much used by Kotoku traders. It was difficult to find lodging in Okurease because of the number of people resting the overnight. He had a discussion with a fetish priest in Okurease. En route from…
The most important parts of this report are printed in the Jahresbericht 1852, pp 243-267) Pages numbered 25-47. pp 25-27: Size of the region where Ga is understood. Adumase and Ga. pp 27-28: General notes on fetishism. pp 28-29: Oecological…
He has been in the habit of allowing the costs of 8-10 loads for younger catechists, and 10-12 loads for older ones. This allows them to take provisions with them, salt, parrafin, mattresses. Any child is allocated one load. He would like also a rule…
In a short letter about approved scales of furniture for catechists etc. houses, Ramseyer suggests that these be increased - they cannot expect the catechist to sleep on the approved bed stead without wanting one for his wife, similarly rather than…
The impact of the struggle between Atta in Kibi and David Asante, and the latter's being posted away from Kibi, has been that people feel that Atta has won a victory, and that he has acted or the basis of recognised rights. In the typhus epidemic 170…
A part of the report is printed in Heidenbote 1878 p 51 (The bulk of the unprinted material is concerned with Eisenschmid’s impressions on a return to Kibi).. In discussing Begoro he says that he had visited the station several times before, the…
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