"Kamerun/Cameroon 1903"

233 documents bound into one volume and divided into 12 sections, one for the newly opened Station at Bali; Diverse Akten betreffend Kamerun - miscellaneous documents concerning Cameroon, Documents 1-8; Letters from colonial officials in Berlin concerning the land question and letters from J. K. Vietor (Bremen) on difficulties between the colonial authorities and the missions; Ausschuss der Kamerunmission: letters and reports from the Mission's Local Executive Committee and its members, Documents 9-78; Numbers 9, 13, 17, 21, 26, 30, 31, 37, 44, 51, 54, 68, 70 and 75 deal all with the new Station in Bali; Numbers 21-26: minutes of the missionaries Annual General Conference including discussion of baptism of polygamists, founding of an orphanage, sale of Christian girls; No. 21: minutes of the Mission's annual Teachers' Conference; No 43: Lutz on the work of the Land Commission and the resettlement of villages on the mountain slopes around Buea; Nos. 47-48: Governorvon Puttkamer wants the Basel Mission to take over the Government Schools in Duala; No. 78: Hecklinger's annual report of his work in the book shop; Bonaku: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaku, Documents 79-101; Nos. 95-101: the various annual reports from Bonaku: congregation in Bonaku (Hecklinger), congregation in Bonabela (Lauffer), "German School" in Bonanjo (Stutz and Deibol), Girls' School (Miss Bucher), Workshops (wood- and metalwork) (Trautwein and Krauss) letters and reports from the Station at Bonaberi, Documents 102-107; No. 105: Dinkelacker, "Bonaberi, ein Stationsbild aus Kamerun" (i.e. Bonaberi: description of a Mission Station in Cameroon); Bombe: letters and reports from the Station at Bombe, Documents 108-117; Mangamba: letters and reports from the Station at Mangamba, Documents 118-131; No. 118: Wittwer on the struggle between paganism and christianity, a 15 pages report; No. 120: Wahl's detailed report of a journey to Mbang, Ding, Ndue and Bayong; Nyasoso: letters and reports from the Station at Nyasoso, Documents 132-150; No. 133: Dorsch on traditional religion; Lobethal: letters and reports from the Station at Lobethal, Documents 151-162; Edea: letters and reports from the Station at Edea, Documents 163-174; No. 163: Lutz on a journey into the hinterland of Edea; No. 167: Schürle on mission work among tribes in the hinterland of Edea; Victoria: letters and reports from the Station at Victoria, Documents 175-190; No. 175: Lutz on native reserves in the plantations around Victoria; Buea: letters and reports from the Station at Buea, Documents 191-199; No. 191 : Gutbrod on a journey to the Bomboko area west of Victoria; No. 196: In his Annual Report Lorch mentions difficulties with the distribution of land in the Buea area; Bali: letters and reports from the Station at Bali, Documents 200-233; Most documents are accounts of the journey to Bali by various missionaries, of the Situation in Bali as they found it, and of practical Problems in connection with the building of the new Station

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