"Kamerun/Cameroon 1905, part II a+b"

24 documents bound into one volume and arranged in 10 sections; The documents in Volumes E-2.19 and E-2.20 are numbered consecutively: the first document in this volume is no. 154; Bonaku: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaku, Documents 154-203; No. 156-159 are sketch maps of the Station area and (No. 159) a street map of Duala; No. 166: Dr Vortisch on his experience in medical mission in Cameroon; No. 167: a plan of the proposed buildings for medical mission in Duala; Nos. 175-188: the planned building of a girls' boarding school (Mädchenanstalt); No. 198: Lauffer on pagan and Christian teaching ("Heidnischer und christlicher Anschauungsunterricht") methods; Bonaberi: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaberi, Documents 204-217; No. 207: Dinkelacker as Basel Mission Inspector of Schools reports on a visit to schools in the area; Bombe: letters and reports from the Station at Bombe, Documents 218-228; No. 226: Maier on work with girls and women: and on some customs in the Bakundu area; No. 227: in his Annual Report Maier mentions the difficult relationship between village people and the colonial government; Mangomba: letters and reports from the Station at Mangamba, Documents 229-248; No. 238: drawing for a proposed additional building for the Station; No. 242: Stutz on a journey to the Yabassi region; No. 244: Vöhringer on a journey to the Ndokripenda area; Nos. 246-248: Annual Reports for the Station as a whole (Vöhringer) and the Boys' Boarding School (Vöhringer and Ebding); The latter mentions the difficult relationship between Government and people because of planned resettlements; Nyasoso: letters and reports from the Station at Nyasoso, Documents 249-264; No. 253: Stahl reports a journey with Government troops into "enemy country" (Feindesland). With the letter are two photographs of soldiers in the valley of the Elong people; No. 259a: Stahl writes for the periodical "Die Deutsche Kolonien" about a journey to visit schools and to evangelise in the villages around Manenguba mountain; No. 261: Mrs Spellenberg writes for children in Europe: "A white baby's experience in her first week's after birth"; Lobethal: letters and reports from the Station in Lobethal, Documents 265-269; No. 268: Wittwer's Annual Report in which he mentions that planned resettlements in this area were postponed after discussions between Lutz and the colonial government; Sakbayeme: letters and reports from the Station at Sakbayeme, Documents 282-302; No. 29e: Langbein on the Bekok districts and Mangala districts; No. 295: a history of the out-station at Ndogobianga and encounters with the people of this area; Victoria: letters and reports from the Station at Victoria, Documents 303-321; No. 303: Gutbrod mentions Vietor's visit to Victoria; No. 304 : Vietor to Gutbrod on his views about plantation policy and the distribution of land; No. 306: Schmidt, newly appointed to the Landkommission, has been replaced in that body after he had tried to stand up for indigenous land rights; Buea: letters and reports from the Station at Buea, Documents 322-337; Bali: letters and reports from the Station at Bali, Documents 338-394; No. 342: Abstract from the minutes of the Missionaries' Annual General Conference in Bonaku on the question of founding another mission Station in the Grassfields and a Station on the road between the coastal region and the Grassfields; No. 346: report on the building of Bali Station, with two sketch maps of the whole area where the Basel Mission is working; No. 357: Keller mentions exploratory journeys to Banso, Babekum, Bameta, Bafum and Bali Mudi; No. 360: Ernst on the fighting between the colonial troops and the Chiefs around Bali and the role the missionaries were asked to play as mediators; No. 362: Keller writes in detail in answer to questions from the Basel Committee concerning government expeditions to gain control of the Bali region. He mentions the disappearance of whole villages and describes the attitudes of the people. He also critices the practices of the commercial Company G.N.K. - Gesellschaft Nordwest Kamerun. He urges the Basel Committee to protest against the expropriation of land for the building of the railway. See also Nos. 364-365, 368-372, 385b; No. 373 consists of 3 documents: a deed of gift by the Fon of Bali to the Basel Mission. concerning its land, written in German and the Bali language: and two similar sketch maps of the area involved; No. 380: Mrs Keller reports on women in Bali; No. 381: the Station's Conference decides to begin a new Station in Bamum; No. 385a: a detailed account of the beginning of the Mission in Bali and of a journey to Bamum with a visit to King Nioya. See also No. 385b

1905

1905

Text