"Kamerun/Cameroon 1892"

One bound volume containing 204 documents. 7 sections, including one for the newly founded Station of Lobethal; Diverse Akten betreffend Kamerunmission - miscellaneous documents concerning mission work in Cameroon, documents 1 - 12; No 5- Minutes of a Reichstagsdebatte dealing with the liquor question; General-Präses und Ausschuss für Kamerun: letters and reports from the Local Chairman and the Local Executive Committee, Documents 13-77; No 33: copy of a letter by Bohner to the Legationsrath in which he charges that 300 slaves had been transported away by a German firm in Duala (Woermann) . They had originally been recruited as soldiers for the German troops in Cameroon; No 36: Authenrieth urges the Mission's Directorate to consider founding mission stations further inland (e.g. in Bali); No 77: Minutes of the Missionaries1 "General Conference" in which inter al. the founding of a girls' school was discussed; Bethel: letters and reports from the Station at documents 78 - 137; Bethel, No 85 - No 113: a discussion of the plans for the building of a secondary school in Bonaduma with sketch maps, building plans and estimates; Bonaberi: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaberi, documents 138-149; No 138 and No 139: Scholten and Bohner on the attempt made by the former to intervene with the Colonial Government in the Buea War; No 148: a printed leaflet ("Dem Kollekteverein für die Basler Mission" vol. 191. July 1893) including an essay by Mrs Scholten on "Our Black Sisters in Cameroon". No 148a is Mrs Scholten's original handwritten draft; No 148: Annual Report of the Station in Bonaberiin which Scholten mentions Chief Bebe (see also E-2.4,l49 above), who cannot be baptised because of polygamy; Mangamba: letters and reports from the Station at Mangamba, documents no. 150-166; No 165: Annual Report for the Station. Walker (p.3) on trouble between Christians and secret society (losango) members; Lobethal: letters and reports from the Station at Lobethal, documents no. 167-176; No 168: Schuler describes the destruction of Ndogominge by German troops. See also Nos. 169-17; No 176: Annual Report for the Station, also mentioning (p.19) unrest and war; Victoria: letters and reports from the Station at Victoria, documents no. 177-204; No 186: a quarterly report by Grafabout difficulties with the Baptis ts and the results of the Buea War; No 195: Grafdiscusses (in section IV) the question of the baptism of polygamists

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