| Description | He explains that after discussions with the Bullom headmen his station is now properly known as Yongroo pomoh (Little Yongroo). He gives a description of the structure of power and authority among Bullom chiefs, and of the custom of plundering after the death of a headman. He describes the cult of the kolloh, including the dressing up of a man as kolloh, the dancing and the demanding of goods. Nylander himself was forced to give a kolloh 15s worth of goods. The man whom he asked to make a kolloh mask for him has been accused of witchcraft and will stand trial by red water. He encloses a drawing of a kolloh.
In the last year he has had to build new dwelling houses, a store house and a new house and kitchen for Sperrhacken and his furniture. The have been troubled by leopards and Nylander lacks a gun. He bought a canoe but it ran against rocks and now leaks. He has had to overdraw by £25 partly through being sent damaged goods. His young son died in Jun on the way to S. L. with Mrs. Nylander who was attending her sister's funeral.
Enclosure: Drawing of 'Kolloh, Principal Devil of the Bulloms'.
Enclosure: Yongroo accounts Sep 1814 - Sep 1815 |