Circular to the Basel Mission stations in India on financial matters, 1847. The Circular is 4 pp long and dated 21st Sep. 1847 (lithographed in the old German handwriting) and contains a definition of the points B to Q which have to be treated…
In: Nature's Self-Printing. A Series of Useful and Ornamental Plants of the South India Flora. Taken from Fresh Specimens in Facsimile Colors. Mangalore. Botanautographed and Published by J. Hunziker. Basel Mission Press.
Received committee letter that the delegates of all missionary auxiliary societies had decided that no missionary should come home without the permission of the committee. Personally ready to accept this verdict but against the principle.
The photograph is from an album entitled "Chinesisch-indische Reise", made by Wilhelm Preiswerk (member of the committee) and Inspector Theodor Oehler in 1888-1889. Wilhelm Preiswerk and Theodor Oehler bought the pictures from professional photo…
The photograph is from an album entitled "Chinesisch-indische Reise", made by Wilhelm Preiswerk (member of the committee) and Inspector Theodor Oehler in 1888-1889. Wilhelm Preiswerk and Theodor Oehler bought the pictures from professional photo…
Extracts from his diary. Printed: Three burials (Heidenbote 1851 p 93) (pp 1-2). An attempt to milk their cows failed. He hired an elder mulatto who had been in Germany to look after the cows. He knew how to milk them and how to plough. Speaking to…
p 2. Visit to Abokobi. Plan for Christian settlement there, beginning of their house. pp 4-5. His first free sermon in Ga without manuscript. Abokobi again. pp 6-10. The criminal and the rum bottle. Printed Heidenbote 1852, pp 57 ff. p 11: Joy of…
Contains some information about Süss. In July before Zimmermann went on his journey he met Süss in poor circumstances at Dauromadam – quite isolated - his wife apparently abetting him in his ambitions. On his journey down the Volta to Akropong after…
Gives a detailed account of the villages visited in an extend preaching tour of the Accra plains in order to demonstrate to the Committee the populousness of the area....he offers the estimate that in the quadrilateral R. Sakumo – Akwapim hills -…
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