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Preaching tour. Legon, identified only as being two hours from Christiansborg. Not his first visit. People friendly. Spoke to a small group of people (Häufling) who listened with attention, and some greater understanding than usual. A former…

Sickness prevents Stanger from writing.

Mainly personal. Why the brethren at Akropong have little confidence in the committee (delay of their marriage).

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,…

pp 1-2: Personal p 3: Plan of Ussu mission station and chapel. P 4: Description of homowo festival.

Sickness of Zimmermann. He visited Legon, Ashongmang, Adamang and Adanse.

Printed: Heidenbote 1851, P 34 (sickness)

Sickness. Longing for news from home.

Personal, pious letter.

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…

Requirements: Tools and clothes

Thanks for schoolbooks sent. Requirements: drugs and school utilities.

Sickness

Widmann must go home on health reasons.

Safe arrival on the coast.

Thanks for sending their wives.

Annual report for 1849. Printed: Jahresbericht 1850, pp 188-201 (written on home leave).

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…

About their arrival, journey to Akropong and marriage.

Preaching tour: Teshi – Pantanang – Adotaa – Pantang – Abokobi – Lutterodt’s Plantation etc. On p 2 a sketch plan of the plantation villages. The Danish map is all wrong. Description of Mr. Lutterodt's plantation. The letter contains a sketch map of…
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