. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. i. ::-?:':- Ǥ|P Figure 9 An early twentieth-century composite postcard of Pella Mission, produced by the Church for propaganda purposes. In the photograph of the mission complex at top right, the former Rhenish chapel, refurbished by Fr. Gaudeul in 1875 but demolished before 1910, can be seen at centre behind the gate into the Cathedral grounds. A 'trekboer' encampment, with a wagon, a mat-house and a characteristic windbreak ('skerm') is shown in the photograph at lower left. (Parish Archi
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. i. ::-?:':- Ǥ|P Figure 9 An early twentieth-century composite postcard of Pella Mission, produced by the Church for propaganda purposes. In the photograph of the mission complex at top right, the former Rhenish chapel, refurbished by Fr. Gaudeul in 1875 but demolished before 1910, can be seen at centre behind the gate into the Cathedral grounds. A 'trekboer' encampment, with a wagon, a mat-house and a characteristic windbreak ('skerm') is shown in the photograph at lower left. (Parish Archives, Pella) was his task to convert the Herero and other Damaras living along the riverbanks, for which purpose his house also served as a school and chapel. The missionaries also opened up deposits of limestone at several places on the Mission Farm for general use by the inhabitants as a supplement or even as an alternative to agriculture (Simon 1959: 55; Klinghardt 1986). To the services offered by the Church, such as education, a smithy and medical service, were added in due course trading stores, a postal service and agencies of the civil service under the divisional administration of Namaqualand (a field cornetcy and police post) and, after 1902, also a military post. With these developments Pella became the administrative centre of Bushmanland and it was superseded in this respect by the neighbouring settlement at Pofadder only in the 1920s. Some measure of the growth of Pella can be gained from three quotations. In 1889, Pella was described as (apart from the Mission itself) little more than 'a small centre for a pastoral people at certain seasons of the year' ('89: 9); in 1899: 'Pella has a Bishop and therefore ranks [sic] among the mission stations. It is a central field cornetcy, has a police station, merchants with large business ... and is surrounded by several important farms, all occupied by intelligent people' (RCMP/2. Bishop Simon to the Civil Commissione
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