( 123 ) September 8th, 1839. Sunday.
Today I was with a small group of natives at two different times, some of whom I asked about the names of our first parents and so on, some of whom I told them the story of creation anew, told them our commandments and the like. They were very attentive and a Yamaiama supported me not a little in criticizing my laziness and laughing at divine things. The new idea of ​​presenting God to them as Towilla seems very right and useful, if the native applause may be otherwise considered. In the evening some even seemed to have received a salutary impression from my description of the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ, his future judgment and heaven and hell. When I asked whether they had understood me, one of them even asked me to speak to them more often so that they would understand me.

The feeling of reverence is not at all strange to the natives, as is evident from the fact that they called Sunday Yamaiama (Holy?) because the foreigners told them not to bring wood etc. on it, because they saw paper (worship) on that day and therefore they knew that it was holy (tanere yamaiama narkondi).

Oh, merciful and loving Jesus, let the time come soon when I can proclaim your gospel unhindered to these ignorant but salvation-hungry people.

Five days in the bush with the natives

( 124 ) September 9th, 1839.
Yesterday a group of about 30 - 40 natives had gone into the bush, accompanied by their European dogs, to hunt kangaroos. I had long wanted to observe the lives and activities of the natives in the open air for a few days, convinced that this would not only provide a closer insight into their entire nature, but would also be the best exercise in their language. I was therefore very welcome at the opportunity offered to me today by two young natives, Tuitpurro and Kudna Ipiti, to carry out this wish of mine; and I was no less pleased that Brother Teichelmann decided to go along. All my equipment for this escape consisted of a woolen blanket, some tea, biscuits, and salt; Hunting should provide us with the rest. And we were not mistaken in this, because about three German miles from the city we found several of the group that had set out yesterday already busy preparing a kangaroo that had just been hunted. The way in which the natives make a kangaroo edible is remarkable and may therefore find a place here: "As soon as the prey has been killed, a place suitable for stewing is sought nearby, which must be dry and have wood and stones present; then the animal is brought in and the most skilful person prepares to skin it except for the head and the larger pointed part of the tail, which is cut off and singed in the fire, while ( 125 ) that another digs a hole about 1 1/2 feet deep in the earth, a third brings small stones and a fourth wood, and when the hole is finished, lights a fire in it, in which the stones are made glowing. When the fire has burned out, the butcher has already gutted the animal, cut off the legs and thighs and slit