Sickness. Cured with chinin (p 1). About the plantation: Coffee and arrowroot plantation increased. They no longer need to buy plantains or Bananas. Zimmermann brought much seed, will try out lucerne ("Klee") and cattle rearing. A stable shall be…
Extracts from his diary. Stop sending cloth instead of money. It wastes the missionary's time (p 2). Visit to Methodist school of Rev. Wharton at Accra: better teachers than the Basel Mission, pay them higher salaries so that temptation to trade…
pp 1-5 personal: On the marriage question of the missionaries. Aftermath of Schiedt palaver (pp 5-6). Plans for colonisation: What could be planted (pp 6-7). Description of the cultivation work buildings and farm at Akropong. Craftsmen: Black smith,…
Sickness of Stanger. Kindness of the British physician who asks much money from the traders but offered to treat the missionaries free. Financial affairs.
Plan of Government to move to Accra with the next Governor. About the sending of letters home (Postal services) (p 1). Their great enemy here is onanism of the boys and every man. About living together with the brethren.
Answer to a series of questions from Inspector Josenhans. The missionary should not live like a European, but as much as possible like an African, after the pattern of the Apostels. Stations should be well occupied so that sick brethren can be…
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