other things, that the Austrian government was the most natural and best in all of Europe.

June 21st, 1841.
I rode out with Barnard to bring home his black mare, but we did not achieve our purpose. Barnard's conversation convinced me that he was not the proud and morally dead man that I had hitherto taken [him] to be; he is vain and this seems to me to be the main source of all evil in him.

June 22nd, 1841.
Nungalta and Yulgalta came to me (the latter is the son of Punalta), and in the course of the week they were joined by others whom I employed with clearing up trees that were in ( 083 ) the road.

June 25th, 1841.
The ship "Governor Gawler" arrived without bringing me a single letter.

June 26th, 1841.
Dr. Harvey asked me to send him a list of the provisions I had distributed among the natives, adding that he had given away 200 pounds [100 kilograms] of biscuits, which I was to take away cheaply. My silence didn't seem to satisfy him much, so he began to rant about the natives, especially about Murpa and his behavior in his house a few days ago. He said that he had wanted to spear him and that the other blacks had stayed with him all day to protect him. If he had had a gun at that moment, he added, he would have shot him.

June 27th, 1841. Sunday.
It was a bit rainy, which is why Dr. Harvey used to neglect the church service. In the evening Rush came to me complaining that the natives had stolen flour, bread, rice and potatoes from him that afternoon while he was away. I directed him to McDonald.

June 28th, 1841.
It turned out that yesterday evening Gottfried Kappler saw the native Kanyokalendi at Rush's house ( 084 ) and ordered him to go away. On this account he was arrested with my full consent, although McDonald said in advance that there was not sufficient evidence against him to send him to Adelaide, but that he wanted to have him arrested that night to frighten the natives a little. And of course that was very necessary, because they take thievery to such a high degree that I feared worse consequences for the blacks themselves. On Saturday evening they also stole almost all of mine and some of Neander's potatoes from Happy Valley, and also either on the same day or on Sunday Barnard's and Harvey's from the valley between Happy Valley and the city. Yutalta was also seen with my potatoes late last night.