( 215 ) January 10th, 1840.
Mr. Bauer, to whom I told that Pastor Kavel had excluded him from the sponsorship because of the suspicion of his connection with Mrs. Milde, said to prove the Klemzigers' gossipiness that Julius Fiedler had said things about a person close to me that he did not even want to say in his mouth.

January 11th, 1840.
Today I was so happy to be visited by my lovely bride by bringing me my laundry. While her brother August, who had brought her and the laundry here, made the detour over the bridge, we stayed in my house and then walked straight arm in arm to the city, where I gave her two pairs of stockings. Since we were in the shop for quite a long time, August had left, so we had to rush to Pfender's Hut in North Adelaide, where he still had something to load up.

January 12th, 1840. Sunday.
Today all the southern people and most of the forest men (Patparneyunna and Wirrameyunna) have gone hunting south, the latter invited by the former. This makes me all the more sorry because my school is now almost completely gone, at least the children who came most regularly were the most advanced. Not only her quick grasp of the letters and so on, but also her joy and participation in the telling of biblical stories, such as Joseph's, gave me a lot of pleasure and ( 216 ) gave me not a little encouragement, but it is now too much to worry that in the wild her mind will become completely wild again and what she has learned will be forgotten.

January 13th, 1840.
My Bertha, whom I [had] promised to visit [her] today, complained. that the afternoon was so long and so anxious for her because I stayed out so late. Like mine, their love increases daily; When I asked her whether it wouldn't be nice to spend the evenings in Encounter Bay, as undisturbed as we were at that moment, she replied with such a wistful "Yes" that I would try in vain to describe it. Bertha begged me earnestly to go to the missionary class with her. As much as I would have liked to oblige her, it was impossible for me.

January 14th, 1840.
I went to Messrs. McLaren, Stephens(193) and Rowland today to inquire whether the £100 recently received from us was Mr. Angas's annual contribution or extra; But no one could tell me, only that the last two believed that the money was a special sum. Before I left, I had already asked for Br. Teichelmann's papers relating to the financial matter; But since he didn't want to give it to me yet, I explained to him that I didn't want to have anything to do with the matter anymore. I had to have Mr. Stephens remind me of the complaint he made.

In the afternoon I sent two native boys to Klemzig with a note to Mr. Fiedler, who gave me a short answer. As insignificant as this is in itself, it is significant for those who know the natives. One of the boys noticed my English dictionary, and