THE COLONISATION OF OGOWE AND ITS MISSIONS 9 
stationed at Cape Lopez, at Lambarene, at Samba, 
and at N’Djole, with about five hundred coloured 
soldiers distributed over it to act as a police force. 
Such was the country, and such the people among 
whom for four and a half years I worked as the forest 
doctor. What I experienced during that time and the 
observations I made previous to the outbreak of the 
war, I shall now describe with the help of the reports 
which I wrote every six months in Lambarene and 
sent as printed letters to my friends and supporters. 
During the war such correspondence was, of course, 
impossible, and for that later period and for what is 
said about the religious and social problems treated of, 
I rely on memoranda which I made for my own use. 
