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A further short report on Asante Akim. The chief of Asante Akim has recently asked him to write on his behalf to the Governor, asking to be taken into the English protectorate. Ramseyer has hopes that this will happen, since Ateobu has recently been…

The report is printed in two installments in the Heidenbote 1892 - p17f and p30f. Only one point is omitted - that he had very recently news that the Asante chief Yaw Sapong had threatened to fight the Asante Akims, and indeed some skirmishing had…

An answer to questions about marriages between Christians and heathens posed by the Basel Committee (see Anum letter no. 118). The answer is roughly the same as for Anum, though more detailed. Dieterle and Eisenschmid had both advised him in the…

Part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1890 Annual Report (pp83ff). Additional material: In Mpraeso, where preaching has been like pouring water on the rocks, there were 4 adults and 3 children baptised in June. In the Abetifi baptism…

Report of the first Mission Anniversary in Abetifi. It is mainly printed in the 1889 Annual Report pp41ff.

Report on a visit to Asante Akim. He remarks that he has been twice delayed by the war in Eastern Ashanti, and indeed did not go so far as Agogo partly, because he heard that there were very few people in that town, but more because he wanted to…

Report on the acceptance of Kwahu in the English Gold Coast colony. Ramseyer says tout court that in the race of extortion by people coming out of the colony in the days before Kwahu was under British law the missionaries stood by the Kwahu people -…

A planned visit to Asante Akim and Agogo has bad to be put off for a short while because strife in Kumawu and Nsuta has spread to Agogo.

Report on the purchase of land in Nkwatia and Obo. The Nkwatia land purchase went through smoothly in the end - the key stratagem on the part of the missionaries seems to have been to send Kwabi to a meeting of all the Kwahu chiefs and ask them the…

En route for Abetifi on their return to the coast they met some of Apeo be injured in the Akim troubles – including Joseph Bosompom, who had worked for Werner in Abetifi. On their return to Abetifi the Abetifihene came to greet them in state (without…

Reporting a rumour from Kumasi that not only has Kwaku Dua died of small-pox, but Owusu Koko has accused Karikari of being the cause of this and as a result he has been executed.

Requests £29 to cover the expenses of his journey to Salaga - including £ 25 for carriers.

Another annex to Kwabi’s report. This is written from Aburi - Ramseyer is grieved that Dilger does not write to him as his superior, and to find out about the Agogo expedition. He (Ramseyer) was forced to write direct to Kwabi and enquire why he has…

A stations-conference protocol dated 19th July in fact, over the settling of a catechist in Bompata. This has been agreed in principle the only thing to be decided is when. This conference was about the estimates of expenditure in land-purchase and…

Almost entirely concerned with summarising letters received from Prince Ansah. Letter dated 31st July from Ansah: Asante ambassadors arrived on 28th Aug in Cape Coast en route for Accra. They were from the great princes Mampong, Nsuta, Kokofu,…

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…

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…

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…

His report of the expedition to Basel. This appears not to have been printed in more than a summary form. The expedition consisted of Ramseyer, Asante, Ofori, and Samuel Gyebi, church elder from Larteh, who made the journey at his own expense…

Include short notes announcing respectively their arrival in Kumasi, and their arrival in Abetifi in their return, with the Asante refusal to entertain a mission tout court.
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