"Weimer to Basel"

A general letter about his life and work. Lamenrs the difficulties - a lack of skilled and trustworthy men (two of the sawyers were from Abokobi, and even these were pressing for higher pay), and his own inability either in twi or English (especially at the beginning of their work); were the main ones. One interesting point is that in contrast he ways with Begoro, Odum trees are quite scarce – they are having to go 20 minutes from the mission station to find Odum trees for felling, and then he will have three different parties at work on trees 10 minutes away from each other. Supervising under these conditions is trying. In the last 4 months he has supervised the sawing of 200 planks 12-20 feet long, and ¾-1 inch thick.

25.11.1876

25.11.1876

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