"Schiedt from Danish Accra"

Answers questions of a letter from Basel. Point 2: They shall not officially become chaplains, but the school shall he handed over by the Danish Government and the soldiers receive the permission to participate in the services. But no obligations shall be added to this and no payment or control executed by the Danish Government (p 1). Financial matters. About the West Indians: Their difficulties come from the fact that many of them are not yet ready to consider this country as their permanent home. Differences of opinion between Schiedt and Widmann in the West Indian treatment (pp 3-5). What shall happen to the girls' school? He does not dare to request a female teacher from the committee, since he knows that the committee would not send one (p 7). Difficulties with the request of possible converts asking to be allowed to marry a second wife. Reasons for this (p 8). The plantation did not yield any profit since nobody worked it. Locusts and the death of an Akwapim man by a leopard. The Halleurs there and the birth of their child.

27.05.1847

27.05.1847

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