"Kamerun/Cameroon: Quarterly and Annual Reports for 1914, part III"

55 documents arranged in 13 sections; Because of the outbreak of war most of the Annual Reports are missing, and there are no reports at all in the relevant categories from a number of stations. Some of the reports were written retrospectively when the missionaries had arrived back in Germany. For the first time there is a section for the Station at Babungo; Bonaku: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Bonaku, Documents 1-9; No. 1: Wöll on his medical work; Bonaberi: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Bonaberi, Documents 10-14; No. 10: Hecklinger writes about Peter Mobi and his Christian way of life; No. 13: Hecklinger, writing at home in Jun 1915, describes the last days of German Duala and the trial and execution of Manga Bell; Besongabang: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Besongabang, Documents 15-19; No. 16: Doxie describes his first impressions of Besongabang, and writes an essay on the topic "Why a man wears an amulette"; Mangamba: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Mangamba, Documents 20-21; Yabassi: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Yabassi. Only one report in this category, No. 21a; Ndunge: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Ndunge. Only one report in this category, No. 22; No. 22: Wittwer reports how the war affected life and work on the Station. He reports the detaining of all Dualas in the area by the Germans and comments on the attitude of Cameroonians to the Germans and the German reprisals; Lobethal: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Lobethal, Documents 23-25; No. 25: Gehr's essay on Cameroonian mammals and their relationship to man; Sakbayeme: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Sakbayeme, Documents 26-30; No. 26: Scheibler: "Ein Stück Heidentum" - his thoughts on paganism; No. 27: Schuckardt's thoughts as a young missionary on the inner and outward poverty of chris tians and non-christians; No. 28: Ziegler on the economic development of the region. He suggests the beginning of mission plantations to save people from working on other plantations, and to settle them under the influence of missionaries and Christian planters; No. 29: Scheibler on the use of the Duala language in the Basa area; No. 30: Scheibler on the troubles which arose with the coming of war; Victoria: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Victoria, Documents 31-32; No. 32: J. Erne mentions the impact on the people and on the mission of the outbreak of war; Buea: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Buea, Documents 33-43; No. 33: Schmidt on the death of several Chiefs in the Buea area; Bali: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Bali, Documents 44-48; No. 47: Miss Milla Roos' report on medical mission; Fumban: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Fumban, Documents 49-54; No. 52a: Miss A. Wuhrmann reports on a harvest festival in Bamum; Babungo: Quarterly and Annual Reports from the Station at Babungo. Only one document in this category, No. 55; No. 55: Ammann on the beginning of work in Babungo

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