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Bock (Makamba) to Bracker about a life-threatening malaria that was exacerbated by loneliness. About the slow progress of the work, which always rests when Bock is not supervising. A complaint that workers only want to be obliged to work for a few days at a time, but never for a whole month. Consideration of getting forced laborers through the military in Kassulo. Lieutenant Rothardt informs us that we must quickly occupy the whole country with Protestant mission stations - not so much because of Islam, but because of the Catholics, who penetrate the Protestant mission area in disregard of all treaties. Jessen and Andersen are, contrary to the agreements, not in Neu-Breklum to support Bock, but 'sitting in Kigoma, which would not have been necessary at all'. Lieutenant Colonel Rothardt had to perform an operation and pull one of Bock's molars in a half-hour action 'that neither Lieutenant Colonel nor I will forget'. Complaint that incorrect texts are printed by Bock in the Mission Gazette and that his forwarded corrections are not incorporated. Since attempts with date palms have failed, Bock asks for perennials of apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach, apricot, currant, gooseberry, and rose trunks. Bock bought three cattle, but they don't give milk, because there's no calf.

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Schierenberg, Kristin: Afrikabestände im Archiv der Breklumer Mission. In: University of Leipzig Papers on Africa. Mission Archives No 24. Leipzig 2509