Sickness of Stanger. Kindness of the British physician who asks much money from the traders but offered to treat the missionaries free. Financial affairs.
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,…
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…
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…
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