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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Kigoma) to Bracker with report about wife and child. The financial situation has improved, so Jessen has made preparations for the purchase of a plot of land on which to plant 'rewarding crops'. Health is good. No news from Germany for a long time. Note that letters may be sent via Stockholm, Copenhagen or America. But everyone is fine, the Breklumers should not worry. The baptism of the first African took place at Easter. Andersen is now in Shunga, the construction of the house is finished. A settlement exists, but cannot be sent.

Bock (Makamba) to Bracker about positive developments in the working morale of the natives. Indication of why the cooperation with the natives did not work at first: Jessen had told the indigenous Waha that he and his friends were from a different 'tribe' than the Europeans at the Kassulo military station. Since the Waha only know two kinds of Europeans, namely the 'normal' and the Greeks, Bock was divided into the category of the Greeks. The Greeks, however, are labourers who press the natives to work in railway construction. So the Waha suspected that Bock's request for help to build a house was just a pretext to take the Waha to the railroad service. Quarrels with Jessen, who has a stricter way of dealing with the natives, and the questions as to whether Africans can only be forced to work with the whip, or whether they can also be talked to. Bock doesn't want to be a master man, but a friend of the natives. Question about dealing with natives. Report about the somewhat expensive production of bricks ('I only found the right recipe for fast production in the course of the working weeks. Until then I still followed Br. Andersen's method.'), the soon completion of the house in Makamba, Jessen's visit and help with the house construction, the expensive wage costs for workers due to the railway construction, improved health, planned visit to Andersen's, uncertainties concerning the place where the wedding should take place ('Hopefully there will be no confusion that the brides will celebrate in Usambara and we will celebrate in Dar es Salaam').