"Kamerun/Cameroon 1906, part I"

This volume consists of 143 documents arranged in six sections. A further 138 letters and reports for the year 1906 are bound into E-2.22; Diverse Akten über die Kamerunmission-miscellaneous documents concerning the work of the Mission in Cameroon, Documents 1-8; Mostly correspondence concerning proofs asked for by the Kolonialamt for the maltreatment of Cameroonians by German colonial troops; No. 1: A German army pharmacist, one Bernegen on the importance of the Cameroonian cola-nut for the world market (copy); No. 2: Judge Straehler in Berlin asks for the presence of Lutz as witness in a disciplinary hearing against Governor von Puttkamer; Ausschuss der Kamerunmission: letters and reports from the Mission's Local Executive Committee and its members, Documents 9-76; No. 10: Lutz mentions von Puttkamer's recall and the arrival of a new Governor Müller. And indeed a number of letters by both Lutz and Stolz are concerned with relationships with the new Governor. Von Puttkamer's case, and the land question in numbers 14, 16, 19, 25, 42, 47, 62, 70, 74, 75; No. 11: on the present political Situation and an uprising in the [Nyasoso area. Also difficulties in Bamum because of the strength of the islamic presence there; Numbers 21, 40, 65, 66, 68 and 104: the case of the Akwa Chiefs, who have been accused of inciting unrest. No. 69: a speech in their defence by Stolz; No. 70: Stolz, Father, Hippert and Bender of the Baptist mission petition the Governor on their behalf; No. 76: Annual report of the Basel Mission's Inspector of Schools, Dinkelacker; Bonaku: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaku, Documents 77-111; No 111: Deibol in his Annual Report tells stories about the perception of the power of God in his congregation; Bonaberi: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaberi, Documents 112-125; No. 117: Bufe comparing the education of freed slaves in Americ with schooling in Cameroon on the need for cultural education; Bombe: letters and reports from the Station at Bombe, Documents 126-131; No. 126a: a journey to Marue by Maier; No. 131: Gloeckel, a teacher in the Boys' Boarding School compares his work in the "bush" with the work in Duala and Togo; Mangamba: letters and reports from the Station at Mangamba, Documents 132-143; No. 133: Vöhringer on a journey to the Babon people; No. 143: Annual Report on the Wuri-Bodiman-Yabassi area, with the rules and regulations for mission work in the Wuri district

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