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During the studies of my father In 1853 the ship Kandaze
was built in Hamburg and when at the end of 1857 the second sending of missionaries took place, we went on the journey to Africa with the Kandaze, a small sail ship. The journey took
3 months from November to February 1858, via Trinidad. On this long journey, my father kept a diary which is still in my possession. The journey was monotonous with frequent wind- still days, but also had its interesting times. I was 3 1⁄2 years old and only remember having seen a big road roller drawn
by many horses. Then the big ships in the port of Hamburg that we passed in our boat. About the journey I only remember falling onto a fishing rod that pierced through my hand, while walking on the ship, that the fishing rod then had to be filed off on the one side and that my hand bled severely. It is interesting to read in father’s diary what impression the first black kaffir made on them in Durban and how they provided clothes to the poor black man.
From Durban the journey continued by ox wagon to New Hermannsburg in the Umvoti County where we first took a break.
Then my father, as the second missionary, was sent to the station Ehlanzeni with Chief Somahashi to learn the Zulu language there