"Station Conference Anum - Annex to Mischlich's Proposal for a New Station in Adele"

A disagreement with Mischlich’s suggestion proposing Buem as the area for a new European mission settlement, on the grounds: Krakye is definitely the most populous area under consideration, and cannot be worked from Adele at all as easily as from Buem (2 days against 5 days, on the main North-South route as against used tracks through uninhabited country.) Buem is also well-peopled, and one can look forward to having 6 or 7 outstations in due time. It would be impossible to maintain anything like detailed control of the area from Adele. Furterwore, each of the areas like Vakpo, Anfoi, Kpandu and Nkonya already settled in German areas are as populated as Adele - it makes more sense in view of this to contemplate setting up a middle school in Buem than Adele. It is evident the perspectives are quite different, Mischlich being consumed with interest in the Sudan proper, Rösler and Martin in Anum seeing things from another point of view.

15.10.1895

15.10.1895

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