"Protocool of a Conference of the Commission Investigating the upper Volta District held in Anum"

Present: Rottmann, Mader, J. Zimmerman (as substitute for Locher), Laissle, Strömberg (also as secretary); Meyer added in parentheses. Locher absent because of the severe illness of one of his children. Although the areas around the Pekyi district grow cotton for internal consumption, it is the Pekyi district which the missionaries identify as the real centre of cotton-production. By Pekyi District they mean Pekyi proper, the area inhabited by the Kyerepongs, and the Ho-Awudome district. The cotton packing machine cannot yet be brought to Anum firstly because of the difficulty of carrying it to Anum, and secondly because anyway cotton from Anum must still be head-loaded to the river. For the time being it should be located in Dauromadam. (The exact recommendations not noted in detail. A mission station should be set up at Anum, but there was uncertainty as to whether or not the Trading Post should be at Anum, or nearer the river. Emphasis that Dauromadam should remain as a staging post, occupied by a 'local agent'.)

20.02.1864

20.02.1864

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