"Kamerun/Cameroon, a+b 1898"
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"Kamerun/Cameroon, a+b 1898"
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E-02.11a Index mit Inhaltsangaben und Akten 1-167/ index with table of contents and reports 1-167; Diverse Akten Kamerun 1-10/Various files 1-10: Dr. von Jacobi, Kolonialabteilung, Heinrich Bohner; Ausschuss Kamerun, Index und Akten 11-73: Wilhelm Dietrich, Heinrich Bohner, Eugen Schuler, Arnold Scholten, Georg Bizer, Jakob Keller, Karl Wittwer, Karl Stolz, Martin Göhring, Wilhelm Schmid; Station Bonaku (Bethel) Akten 74-100: Wilhelm Dietrich, Heinrich Bohner, Arnold Scholten, Karl Schuler, Wilhelm Hies, Otto Schkölziger, Wilhelm Schmid, Martin Göhring, Jakob Gutekunst, Johannes Maier, Carl Pfleiderer; Station Bonaberi, Akten 101-129; Eugen Schuler, Heinrich Bohner, Wilhelm Dietrich, Arnold Scholten, Martin Nusser, Jakob Gutekunst, Ph. Häcklinger, Ferdinand Ernst, Jakob Keller; Station Bombe, Akten 130-143: Jakob Stolz, Ferdinand Kobel, Alfred Scholten, Eugen Schuler, Heinrich Bohner, Wilhelm Dietrich: Station Mangamba, Akten 144-167: Heinrich Bohner, Jakob Keller, François Chapuis, Karl Wittwer, Alfred Scholten, Eugen Schuler E-02.11b Index mit Inhaltsangaben und Akten 168-243/ index with table of contents and reports 168-243; Station Nyasoso, Akte 168-180: Wilhelm Basedow, Heinrich Dorsch, Alfred Scholten, Heinrich Bohner, Eugen Schuler; Station Lobethal, Akten 181-195: Alfred Scholten, Bartholome Gantenbein, Wilhelm Dietrich, Georg, Schürle, Gotthilf Lorch, Eugen Schuler; Station Edie, Akten 196-198: Gottlob Walker, Friedrich Lutz; Station Viktoria, Akten 199-216: Heinrich Bohner, Gouverneur von Kamerun, Gotthilf Gonser, Gottlieb Spellenberg, Wilhelm Schmid, Carl Hüttinger, Georgg Bizer, Martin Nusser, Jakob Keller; Statiom Buea, Akten 218 -243: Georg Bizer, Wilhelm Dietrich, Heinrich Bohner, Carl Hüttinger, Eugen Schuler, Wilhelm Schmid 243 documents arranged in 11 sections. Diverse Akten betreffend Kamerun - miscellaneous documents concerning Cameroon, Documents 1-10; Mainly correspondence between the Basel Mission and the Colonial Government; No. 9: Draft petition by Inspector Oehler to the Colonial Office in Berlin. Oehler strongly protests against the expropriation of land in order to create plantations. The formerly independent tribes are able to retain so little land that they are forced to sell their labour; Ausschuss der Kamerun-Mission: letters and reports from the Mission's Local Exectuive Committee and its members, Documents 11-73; Nos. 18-20: Schuler reports on schools in Cameroon and sends two school timetables to Basel; Nos. 26, 27 and 30: a missionary doctor for Cameroon?; Nos. 46-45: Minutes of the Missionaries' Annual General Conference, including (No. 51) a report by Göhring on the current situation in regard to the sale and consumption of liquor in Cameroon; Nos. 54-66: discuss a draft of regulations on the Organisation of the Basel Mission in Cameroon; Bonaku / Bethel- letters and reports from the Station Bethel / Bonaku, Documents 74-100; Nos. 75 and 84 mention the beginning of a Girls' Boarding School in Bethel; Bonaberi: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaberi, Documents 101-129; No. 109: Ernst reports on a journey to the Elongasie area; No. 114: report on the Middle School and Seminary; No. 129: List of the buildings on the Station; Bombe: letters and reports from the Station at Bombe, Documents 130 - 143; No. 143: Annual Report, inter al Stolzmentions the effects on the peole of the prohibition of secret societies (losango); Mangamba: letters and reports from the Station at Mangamba; Documents 144-167: No. 144: Keller reports in detail on his approach to the losango cult in his area. See also No. 148; Nos. 153-154: Wittwer reports on the progress of his work in Aboland and the regulations agreed for the united congregations in Aboland. (See also E-2.6,82 and E-2.7,34. Soon after the founding of the Mangamba Station the Abo Christians, led by the teacher Josef Koto. founded their own mission Organisation and asked others to join them. They then decided to finance their congregations and evangelisation themselves and thus become independent of financial aid from the Basel Mission); No. 157: Keller, Wittwer and Chapuis ask for permission to found a Boys' School in Mangamba; No. 159: essay by Keller on small children in Cameroon ("Wie es kleinen Kindern in Kamerun ergeht und ergehen kann"); Nyasoso: letters and reports from the Station in Nyasoso, Documents 168-180; No. 172: contains a sketch of Kupe mountain; No. 173: Dorsch complains about the behaviour of Dr. Esch who has been travelling in the area for the Colonial Government; Lobethal: letters and reports from the Station at Lobethal, Documents 181-195; No. 189: Gantenbein reports on a secret society which had been abolished; No. 190: Gantenbein on the liquor problem in the area and on the work of the Catholic missions; Edea: letters and reports from the Station at Edea, Documents 196-198; Victoria: letters and reports from the Station at Victoria, Documents 199-216; Nos. 199 and 200: are concerned with the Government's plan to Station a doctor at Victoria; Buea: letters and reports from the Station at Buea, Documents 217-243; No. 232: Station Conference minutes concerning a decision by the Government to assign more land to the Basel Mission in Buea on condition that part of it is used; No. 233 includes a sketch map showing the land involved; No. 233: estimates of the costs of the missionaries' plans for the use of this land; No. 238: Schuler describes the Situation on the southern slope of Cameroon Mountain
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Title: "Kamerun/Cameroon, a+b 1898"
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Date: 1898
“Kamerun/Cameroon, a+b 1898,” BMArchives, accessed May 11, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/16017.
Title: "Kamerun/Cameroon, a+b 1898"
Creator: unknown
Date: 1898
“Kamerun/Cameroon, a+b 1898,” BMArchives, accessed May 11, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/16017.
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