Because the first mission buildings in the 1860s had used the easily accessible wood they were having to fetch beams from sites an hour away. One carrier was so badly injured by an accident on one of these occasions that he died the following day.
Handwritten manuscript on marriage customs by Christoph Geprägs (B.V.1570), formerly Bamum, Cameroon; 22pp from an exercise-book and 1 double page on political matters in June 1914
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