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Father’s life
1857: We left Hamburg onboard the small Kandaze, travelled
for 3 months and arrived in February 1858 in Natal.
1857 – 1860: Father was a missionary with Müller II at Ehlansesi in the thorns, learnt the language, built himself a house and visited the kaffirs of Chief Somahashi in their kraals.
1861: He established the Emhlangane station and stayed there until 1863 as a missionary. Missionary Röttcher was with him for a while, Missionary Schütze became his successor. Father built his residential house, a church, he built a long trench, had a big garden with a stone wall, taught at the school, held services and visited the kraals.
1863:He travelled to Transvaal with Kaiser in order to work as missionary at Sechele. When they were rejected there, father came back to Linokane and did not know where to go next.
1864 He heard of the tribe of the Bawane in Mandabule in the district of Rustenburg who wanted to have a missionary. He travelled there and arrived on 29 November and was welcomed with much joy, established Bethanie and was there as a missionary until he died of malaria on 23 April 1900.
1865 Father built his house and baptised his first baptism scholar in the large tent that he had, where he also held the services. He always had more than enough baptism scholars. Josef Mahuma and Abraham Moroke, the two subordinate chiefs, the old Petrus Sepeng and Lazarus Thaye and their wives were among the first.