"Baziya. Utabeliza. Die Jugend erhielt drei Schafe für ihren Festbraten (Eßgemeinschaft)" ("Baziya. Utabeliza. The youth got three sheep for their feast (eating community)"). Several people dispersed in a meadow. In the front three boys sitting. Behind them four men standing. Three of them are holding slaughtered animals in their hands. Behind them other people sitting, houses and plants. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.
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