Dark and Stormy Days at Kumassi, 1900: Or, Missionary Experience in Ashanti, According to the Diary of Rev. Frits Ramseyer1900 - Ashanti (African people) - 240 pages |
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Abétifi able Accra Agona Akropong amongst arrival Ashanti asked attack Bâle Bantama Basel Mission bearers Bekwae besieged biscuits brought camp Cape Coast CAPE COAST CASTLE capital Captain Armitage carried carriers Catechist Adaye chiefs column Danso dear embrasures enemy English fear fight fire forest garrison Gold Coast governor Haasis hammocks hand Hausa soldiers heard HOOVER INSTITUTION hope hour human sacrifices Jost journey June King Prempeh Kokofu Lady Hodgson looked Lord Major Morris Mampong Maxim guns meat Mensa messenger midst missionary brethren morning native night Nkoransa Nkwanta o'clock officers Okanta once passed peace place of skulls poor Prah prayers prisoners provisions rain Ramseyer reached rebels received river road seemed sent shot slave-children smallpox soon station stockade suddenly suffering Sunday thought to-day told took town tribal chiefs tribes troops UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN venture village waiting Weller wife wounded
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Page 154 - WHOSO dwelleth under the defence of the most High : shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold : my God, in him will I trust.
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Page 85 - And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.
Page 138 - ... with looking upward, and his earnest expectation may be ready to break forth, in the words of Sisera's mother, " Why is his chariot so long in coming ? Why tarry the wheels of his chariot ?" But what saith God, by his prophets and apostles ? " Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come :" Hab. ii. 3. " Yet a little while, and he that shall come, will come :" Heb. x. 37. The
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