"Ein Weg der Mission in Rungwe über einen Bach. Br. Hollan. Br. Zickmantel." ("A path of the Mission [station] in Rungwe leading over a brook. Br[other] Hollan. Br[other] Zickmantel."). Missionaries Hollan and Zickmantel as well as two little girls standing on a path leading down to a brook and crossing it as it ascends again on the other side i.e. the left side of the picture. Rich vegetation on either side which turns into a thick forest at the other side of the brook. Imprinted on the image: "1613.". Martin Johannes Zickmantel (1866-1922) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Marie Agnes Hartmann in 1897, he served from 1898 to 1904 in Rutenganio and from 1904 to 1914 in Rungwe, staying also some time between 1912 and 1914 in Isoko. After the death of his first wife in 1903 in Rutenganio he married Elisabeth Louise Hartmann (1882-1963) in 1906. She served again from 1928 for many years in what is now Tanzania. -- Paul Oswald Hollan (1877-unknown) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as a joiner from 1903 to 1916 in Rungwe until his internment in 1916. He returned to Germany in 1919. In 1909 he had married Augusta Gertrud(e), née Zöllner (1883-unknown).
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