Mainly personal: Marriage request repeated, about his insufficient housing, the reaction of the West Indians to the letter of the committee giving them a date to decide themselves. Walker thinks the letter bad, the Akropong people good. About the…
Says that a patent medicine in Germany has been offered to him for a cheap price. Perhaps the inspector would pursue the offer. About the death of Sebald the inspector once had mentioned that Sebald probably found an early death because of his former…
Printed in Heidenbote 1848, pp 50-52. Beginnings at Aburi Not printed: Visit by Schiedt. He slept on the floor. Request for a wife, urgently repeated. Request for carpenter's tools. Plan sketch of the Aburi mission compound.
Beginnings at Aburi: Settling in the new mission house, street preaching, desire of people for learning, even the 80 fetish priests seem to approve. An Akropong servant asks for baptism (p 1). On the West Indians and their future (pp 2-3).
Arrived yesterday. Description of his temporary quarters. West Indian family Walker accompanies him. He expects an interpreter from the coast. Request for a watch and a bell.
Requirements: seeds for American tobacco, strong tools, shoes etc. Considerations why not to lose courage. The giving up of fetishes does not profit much, a change of heart is needed. No rum is given by the missionaries now. Sad experiences with a…
Sad that the committee reproached him to have too luxurious building plans. The letter arrived when rain was dropping into his house. Urges for a wife, necessary for the work among the women and to get girls for the school.
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Transkription von Briefen in die Heimat und Tagebucheinträgen aus der Zeit des dritten Aufenthaltes von Friedrich Jost in Ghana. Fotokopie, Schreibmaschine / Transcription of letters to home and passages from the diary from the third stay of…
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