"Kamerun/Cameroon 1893"

One bound volume containing 127 documents, divided into the same 7 sections as E-2,5; Diverse Akten betreffend Kamerun - miscellaneous documents concerning mission work in Cameroon, Documents 1 -14. Mainly exchanges with German Colonial Officials on customs exemptions for Missionary Societies working in German colonies; No. 8: von Jacoby (Official representative of the Protestant missionary societies to the German Government in Berlin) asks what the Basel Mission has done for the liberation of slaves in German colonies; No. 12: The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA on plans to erect a jointly-owned Sanatorium for Europeans in Buea. (See also Nos. 22-28 below); General Präses und Ausschuss für Kamerun: letters and reports from the Mission's Local Chairman and Local Executive Committee, Documents 15-40; No. 17: Scholten mentions plans for the building of a Girls' School (see also E-2.5 No. 77); Nos. 22-28 are concerned with plans for the building of a Sanatorium in Buea; Bethel: letters and reports from the Station at Bethel, documents 41-60; No. 56: Estimates for the building of a work-shop in Bonaku; No. 59: Annual Report for the Station. Stolzwrites of trouble with the Baptists and about the German punitive expedition in the area; Bonaberi- Letters and reports from the Station at Bonaberi, documents 61-70; No. 69: Essay by Keller on the Position of women in Cameroon ("Ueber die Stellung der Frau in Kamerun"); Mangamba: letters and reports from the Station at Mangamba, documents 71-88; No. 71: Wittwer on geological research in the Mangamba area, and a journey to inland areas; No. 74: Autenrieth on boys in Cameroon ("Unsere Kamerunknaben"); No. 81: Description of a journey to the Bakossi area by Autenrieth; No. 82: On events in Abo-land, Autenrieth reports clashes between Christians and losango-men.(see also E-2.7t34); Lobethal: letters and reports from the Station at Lobethal, Documents 89 - 100; No. 100: Annual report, including mention of an exploratory journey along the River Sanaga. On p. 19 Schuler writes about the way the people of this area fear the Government and its soldiers and also of the serious debts the people have to pay to the Government; Victoria: letters and reports from the Station at Victoria, Documents 101 - 127; No. 102: Walther reports on the Government's Peace Treaty with the Buea people and the return of the missionaries to Buea (see also No. 105); Nos 112-119: correspondence between the Baptist Preacher Wilson, the Baptist Missionary Society in London and the missionaries Graf and Bizer in Victoria on severe disagreements about the use of a bathing place for adults baptism

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