"Extracts from minutes of a missionaries' conference"

Answer to various questions from the committee. About cultivations' attempts at Christiansborg: Soil not fertile, but cattle rearing possible. They have four cows which they have given to a hired cattleman, whose half salary they pay. They should buy another 6-10 and have their own land. They have not given up hope to train the cows to draw chariots and the plow and to make butter and cheese (pp 1-2). Financial matters: Arrangements with Hutton unsuitable, this trader has no good name. Please to contact Forster and Smith whose agent Cruickshank at Anamabu is the most reliable trader on the Coast (pp 4-5). Personal: Why the brethren should be allowed to ask for wives at an earlier date (pp 5-7). Request that the African civilization society should be asked for grants to the West Indians so that they get the necessary capital to start bigger coffee plantations. Possibilities of export of arrow root flour to be explored.

19.08.1850

24.08.1850

19.08.1850-24.08.1850

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