Mr. Fiedler came to me to go with him to C. Calton, who had demanded his money or the horse, contrary to an earlier agreement. Since Mr. Calton wasn't at home, we went to Mr. Rowland, who had ordered Mr. Fiedler.

( 243 ) He was in a bad mood and was not inclined to advance any money to Mr. Fiedler, since he already owed him both for himself and for the community. He wasn't told anything when he bought the horse, but now he should help us; C. Calton also told him that Pastor Kavel had scolded him passionately and terribly; Calton also complained that Fiedler never delivered him a full weight of hay. If such information was extremely unpleasant to me, it was doubly so when Calton, whom we now visited and met, answered when I asked if he had a moment to talk to Mr. Fiedler, saying that he did have time, but after what had happened, he was not inclined to talk much more. He complained that Pastor Kavel had become very angry and had treated him in a way that was completely unbecoming of a Christian preacher. He suffered at least £10 worth of damage to the hay supplied by Fiedler, the last hay was bad and so on.

Finally we agreed that Calton and Fiedler would share the damage, the former would give the latter a receipt for the sum paid so far and another 6 months' notice for the rest. All of this was supposed to happen next Tuesday, when he invited us to lunch. Mr. Fiedler brought me the Klemzig church regulations without mentioning anything in particular.

( 244 ) February 16th, 1840. Sunday.
At the morning service, at Teichelmann's request and desire, I read out the Klemzig church regulations; But no one wanted to give their opinion on it yet. Before the service, several natives came to us, promising to hear Jehovah’s word. I quickly told them about man's creation and fall and concluded with the 10 Commandments. In the evening, Teichelmann, Kook and I listened to Missionary Willliams' funeral sermon, given by Stow.

February 18th, 1840.
With Mr. Fiedler today [went] to Mr. C. Calton, and later [went] to Klemzig. On the way he asked me whether I had read the Klemzig church regulations and what I thought of them? When I replied that, although I agreed with the whole thing, I could not approve of some points, he seemed hurt and said that the agreement was still not there. I later asked him to get us married, but he found it unnecessary because, even if it was church law, three days before the wedding was still time enough; and if I intended to use this to protect myself from incidents like one that happened, he wouldn't allow it at all.

Bertha avoided me in a very conspicuous way, because after supper she talked to girls from the village instead of me. I told her that I was so worried about her, always remembering that, as Fiedler told me, she [had] said that she had not found what she [had] been looking for in me. But she ( 245 ) didn't show anything, but gave me a kiss when I said goodbye.