"Vier Kaffer-Jungs in Schaffellen. Sie kaufen Schulbücher" ("Four Kaffir boys in sheepskin rugs. They are buying school books.") Four young boys wrapped in sheepskin rugs standing. The one on the right side is holding a stick in his hand. On the right side of the picture a bigger boy and a man wrapped in blankets. In the background another man ducked next to a barrow and houses. 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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