„Br. Bourquin im Spiel mit Kaffer-Jungen“ („Brother Bourquin playing with the Kaffir boys“). Brother Bourquin, wearing a suit and a hat, is standing in a meadow, with his back to the photograper but turning his head to the photographer, smiling. In front of him about ten boys in shorts and shirts. Some of them sitting, others standing. In the background wood, plants and hills. Walther Bourquin, born in 1879 in Nain (Labrador), worked as a missionary in South Africa East from 1908 until 1949. He married Martha Wüstemann in 1908 in Berlin. In 1908 he arrived in Silo. In 1913 he was stationed in Gosen and around 1924 he was in Tinana. In 1925 he became president of the mission province South Africa East. In 1937 he worked in Mvenyane and retired in 1949. He died in 1974 in Durban.--Johannes Vogt (1883-1973) was bishop of the Moravian Church (from 1947 onwards) and has visited Tanganyika in the years 1938 and 1939.
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