List of Sources and Footnotes

• (001) Adelaide was 1837 named after the British Queen Adelaide (Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen)(001a) by the first Governor of South-Australia (1836 - 1838), Captain John Hindmarsh (1785–1860)(001b). Therefore, Schürmann probably used the German name at the beginning of the diary until his arrival in South Australia.
• (002) Pentecost 1838 was on June 3rd. The previous Monday was therefore May 28th.
• (002a) Pestonjee Bomanjee (1851-1938) was a painter, trained in the academic realist style at the Bombay School of Art.
• (002b) The "Pestonjee_Bomanjee", a three-masted wooden barque of 595 tons, 130 feet long and 31.5 feet wide, was built in Scotland in 1834.
• (003a) Letter No. 1 from Governor Gawler to the Commissioners of the Royal Navy regarding conditions on board during the voyage to Tenerife.
• (003b) Letter No. 2 from Governor Gawler to the Commissioners of the Royal Navy regarding conditions on board during the voyage to Rio de Janeiro.
• (004) Gravesend A port town in the county of Kent, located on the south bank of the Thames.
• (005) George Gawler (1795-1869) was the second governor (1838-1840) of South Australia.
• (006) Plymouth A port town in the county of Devon in southwest England.
• (007) Dissenter Particularly in the church history of England and Wales, a dissenter is a member of a church congregation who has separated from the official church because of his different religious beliefs.
• (008) Presbyterian Church The Presbyterian churches are the largest branch of the Reformed churches originating in Scotland, which derive from Calvinism as advocated by the Scottish reformers John Knox (1514–1572) and Andrew Melville (1545–1622).
• (009) Methodist Church The United Methodist Church is a church in the Wesleyan tradition. It is based on the Reformation and its theology was influenced by Anglican, Lutheran, Herrnhut and moderate Calvinist impacts.
• (010) Baptists Baptists are members of a Protestant denominational family whose special characteristics include the exclusive practice of believer's baptism as well as the emphasis on the local community, which itself is responsible for its life and teaching (Congregationalism).
• (011) Herrnhuther The Moravian Brethren is an international church that goes back to the Bohemian Reformation (Bohemian Brothers) and Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, who was influenced by Pietism.