| Description | He went to S. L. on 11 Mar and married Nylander to Phyllis Nazely on 13 Mar. He praises Butscher's missionary zeal, especially for the translation of the bible into Susu. They are now able to lodge 50 boys in the newly-built school-house, besides the girls in the other house. He must draw £70 for this project before leaving S. L. Butscher's passage cost £25, his own £5. They exercise personal economy, but the 'slave trade' [the capture, buying and selling of enslaved people] has so increased the price of rice that their whole salary is spent on feeding their children. He pleads for the sending of the goods they asked for from home; local buying will cost CMS £50 [see 11]. Nylander now has £329 salary to maintain himself and his wife; Renner and Butscher have to provide for 50, for which £200 is quite insufficient. Butscher in Fantimania cannot give a good report of progress.
Renner was with Barneth during his last illness but his repeated fever attacks (from which Renner had helped him to recover) had so weakened him that he died 2 Feb, grieving that he had been able to do so little missionary work. Renner is lodging with Ludlam, Nylander being unable to offer accommodation since his marriage [see 26b]. |