Two letters from Stanger and Mürdter to Büchelen. Needs of the missionaries: The mission should give the clothes to be made to a better tailor - a good hat is needed etc. (Interesting for the clothes worn at that time by Europeans)
Everybody healthy. Birth of a daughter of Riis on 14th September. Their work: New carpenters shop and new goats stable and new boy’s quarters built - old ones collapsed in rain and were attacked by white ants. New buildings with better wood. His work…
Report of the journey to the Gold Coast. Visit to Cape Coast and friendly reception by the Methodist missionary Rickle (?) there. Sickness of Mürdter: Ulcer on the arm and fever. Kindness of Governor not accepted.
Requirements: Need brass sheets, thin ones, since last ones used for the making of lamps burning palmoil (had experimented till a system was found out). Wire etc.
The fence round the compound now finished. Hope, that in future more time to learn the language. Letter from Christiansborg prohibiting the missionaries to bless marriages etc., otherwise they will sent back.
Indian term - Canarese or Sanskrit or Tulu or Concanee (only Latin writing transcribed): Murele mara In: Nature's Self-Printing. A Series of Useful and Ornamental Plants of the South India Flora. Taken from Fresh Specimens in Facsimile Colors.…
Indian term - Canarese or Sanskrit or Tulu or Concanee (only Latin writing transcribed): Murele mara In: Nature's Self-Printing. A Series of Useful and Ornamental Plants of the South India Flora. Taken from Fresh Specimens in Facsimile Colors.…
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.
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.
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