"Mohr to Basel"

Reports the purchase of land in Anyinam, and his plans for the building of a catechists' house. The latter are opposed by Buck, Eisenschmid, and Buhl partly on the grounds that no catechist is earmarked for Anyinam, and partly because Mohr has ambitious plans for a new type of house with an Odum board frame which seemed too costly and unnecessary. The land purchase (for 15 dollars) seems to have gone ahead easily, since the chief and elders made only two stipulations about it. Firstly they did not want a cactus-hedged plot belonging to Tano to be disturbed, and secondly they did not want the land to be too far from the town on the grounds that if there were no link between town and Christian settlement the town would be ruined.

29.10.1879

29.10.1879

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