| Description | He has 13 extra liberated children in school for whom Renner could not find transport. Wilhelm and Wenzel came to fetch them but gave MacCarthy so gloomy an account of the insecurity in the Rio Pongas that he decided they had better stay in S. L. The Rio Pongas missionaries seem weary of their unrewarding stations. There is threat of open war between the headmen and Major Appleton's expedition since Appleton demanded 50 enslaved people to be handed over.
Butscher reproduces a letter from Renner, deprecating Wenzel's desire to leave and blaming Wenzel himself for his troubles. Wenzel's complaints are the building of the devil house and the cool reception the king gave to his objections. Butscher thinks that the real trouble is the Susu conviction that the missionaries are in league with the government. The Susus have replaced the former white slavers and, knowing the French slave trade is still active in Goree and Senegal, will try to smuggle slaves there and to oust the missionaries who might inform the government. Letters from Renner and Wenzel report the palaver on 5 Dec resolved to defend their country against Foulahs and men-of-war, but allowed missionaries to stay. |