( 155 ) We enjoyed a wonderful walk in the garden in the evening. Mr. Füssli was in town so I could stay overnight. Unfortunately, Bertha's toothache and headache had not yet gone away.

October 20th, 1839. Sunday.
I was invited to have lunch with Mr. Fiedler, but unfortunately the good Bertha was suffering from her head and teeth again. The more the intimacy between us increases, the more I learn to recognize what noble soul I have become a part of. In the afternoon an Englishman rode up to the house, proud of Fiedler's Timoran, who had gotten lost. Mr. Fiedler was rightly upset about this and might have wished that I had been a stricter interpreter; but my good Bertha said it would have been best that way; thereby displaying her gentle, truly feminine sense. As usual, we had the evening to ourselves again. This time too I stayed overnight in Klemzig.

October 22nd, 1839.
This evening I went with Br. Teichelmann among the natives. During the course of the conversation, one said that our sayings about Jehovah were not true, adding that other Europeans had told him so. I said that he was exuberant now, but that in the future, when God called him to go into the great fire, he would be very sad. He repeated with terrible impudence that he wanted to throw the spears at God, shaking the spear as if he wanted to show what courage he had. Another ( 156 ), mentioning the fire, said that he was very strong, indicating that the fire would not harm him. Although such speeches arise partly from a lack of knowledge of God, they are nonetheless accompanied by a great deal of sacrilege and numbing of conscience, as is shown by the seriousness which they usually show when Jehovah is spoken of. By the way, we were still pleased about the objections because they are the surest proof that the natives have not forgotten our previous speeches and that they are not indifferent to them. By the way, it wasn't even we who started this conversation first, but the natives themselves, in order to excuse the laziness that we blamed them for.

October 23rd, 1839.
I was in Klemzig today; In the evening Bertha and I again enjoyed some wonderful moments on the rose bench in the garden, as we couldn't be alone in the house for a moment as Mr. and Mrs. Pfender were with Mr. Fiedler.

October 24th, 1839.
Krummnow approached me today about English lessons; But I replied that I had to pick a chicken with him first. He acted as if he didn't understand me. At the same time I let him know that under no circumstances would I take him to Encounter Bay.

( 157 ) October 27th, 1839. Sunday.
Today we again had a time of refreshing before the Lord as the five of us approached the Lord's table. At Mr. Drescher's suggestion, the decision was made