| Description | Mrs. Klein and he were in Bashia in Jan and witnessed the wedding of Mungke Hati's son to one of Renner's captive schoolgirls. Mungke expressed willingness to have a missionary settlement on his land.
On 5 Feb Renner heard from Hati that an English man-of-war had captured 12 of his people and a canoe of rice. Renner being lame, Wilhelm and Klein went to Hati and wrote at his dictation a letter to the English captain. This could not be delivered until 17 Feb by which date the ship under Major Appleton, was busy burning factories around Bashia, and Renner had gone to S. L. to beg the Governor that as little offence as possible should be given to the natives. When Appleton arrived, having burned 4 factories, he reported that he had the Governor's orders to take the missionaries and property out of the river if they felt endangered, and that no Natives would be molested if they gave up the slave traders and the enslaved people. He had been very favourably impressed with the Bashia settlement and Mrs. Renner's hospitality. Nevertheless great hostility against the missionaries was stirred up by the traders. Fernandez, however, took their part, as did Hati. |