"Br. Hennig am Mulagala-Fluss. 1905." ("Br[other] Hennig at Mulagala River. 1905."). In the foreground Missionary Hennig holding a long stick in his hand and four Africans, presumably porters, at the rocky bank of a river sided by shrubbery and trees. A box and a white hat lying next to the missionary. Imprinted on the image: "1643.". Paul Otto Hennig (1857-1928) became a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa after he had married Elsbeth Gemuseus in 1891. There he serves as head of the church assembly, superintendent and also as chairman of the German mission directorate from 1906 onwards. He visited East Africa in 1905/06.
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