because it might save the latter some embarrassment. This time too I stayed overnight in Klemzig.

October 29th, 1839.
The native Nanto Kartammeru, Karnu Warinya decided to stay with me today. He is a young person, perhaps 22 - 24 years old, very lively and skilled at many things, but also very wild and stubborn; but I hope to keep him with me as a younger boy. He does all sorts of things in my economy.

October 30th, 1839.
This morning some natives came back while I was at their campsite. One came completely naked and full of anger and with a club in his hand with which he wanted to attack his wife because ( 160 ) she had left him and come to Adelaide earlier than he himself. But another native, Kudmoburka, embraced him from behind and held him until his anger subsided and he was tired. Furthermore, it seems to me that the intention behind the holding is to stand with honor and yet not inflict any blows. I was confirmed in this by the fact that he would not hand over the club and spear, which he had later picked up, to anyone other than me. Now and then it seems as if the telling of Bible stories brings joy, but usually the thought of food and drink pushes all others away. Towards the evening I went back to the natives with Br. Teichelmann. When we arrived, the argument started again. The husband of the woman mentioned wanted to throw a club at an old man for leading his wife home, but luckily he didn't hit him. Whether our mediation contributed anything, she became calm again, but the quarrel is only going to start tomorrow. I understand that Mr. Moorhouse is traveling with some policemen to the Murray, where a large mob of natives is said to have attacked a flock of sheep after driving away the shepherds. --

Despite all these incidents that occupy my mind, my soul is primarily occupied with the thought of my dear Bertha;

Prepare, O Lord! them with joyful courage for tomorrow and let their blamelessness be revealed. Grant ( 161 ) to her noble heart untroubled peace and to her beautiful body relief from pain and complete health. Grant that tomorrow I may embrace her as the only one mine, and that all unpleasant memories of the past may be banished from my heart by the grateful and joyful recognition of my happiness. --
Your ways, O God! are often wonderful, but always good, and so in this case too. You don't want to keep me any less in this belief in relation to the natives, otherwise I would lose all courage at the sight of the enormous difficulties that are set against my successful work by both their own passions and by the Europeans.
O! my Savior! keep me in the simple, childlike faith that you have appointed me to be a witness among this people, regardless of whether they accept my testimony soon or late or not at all, otherwise I will be unhappy. Amen.