language. With thanks and praise to the Lord for the deliverance of my fervent desires and requests, we lay down to rest, which we greatly needed after a strenuous day's journey.

November 8th, 1840. Sunday.
The natives gave me to understand that I should like to go back with them in a boat, but they were persuaded to wait until the morning and went out with me in the afternoon.

November 9th, 1840.
This morning I went with three natives to Dr. Harvey, who had promised to bring them back in his boat, persuaded the two younger ones to stay at home with Gottfried until I came back and brought their brothers here. As much as I had hoped for this day, the success was still unsatisfactory. Dr. Harvey did not land at the spot where I had first met the natives; then he had so many side-businesses, such as clam-diving, fetching an oar from [the] Boston Point, etc., that he paid little attention to my wishes; and finally the natives themselves tried to prevent us from seeing their settlement by misleading us, and deserting us one by one when they saw that Dr. Harvey took a different path than they wanted.

( 044 ) When I got home, Gottfried told me that the two young people who had stayed behind had also left in the afternoon, taking an earthenware pot with them. So soon and so completely my hope was crushed.

November 10th, 1840.
I had already decided to continue going out with Gottfried when the arrival of nine native men towards the evening made this intention superfluous. They had camped by the sea some distance from my house, but three agreed to come with me straight away, three came later, and three must have gone back because I no longer saw them, and the others said they had gone to their children. One of these was the same one who first came to us last Saturday and then came with us into the city.

November 11th, 1840.
Today our guests wanted to be taken in a boat to Boston Island to catch snakes, which they often found there, but the wind became so strong that they found themselves in Dr. Harvey's little boat couldn't be ventured. I explained this to them, and they seemed to understand it so well that it satisfied them. Towards the evening we walked along the lake shore to look for shells.

November 12th, 1840.
This morning I went with the natives to Dr. Harvey to go with them in his boat to Boston ( 045 ) Island, but we had to wait until high tide at noon. Up until that time, Dr. Harvey fetched the natives with getting wood and later we had them cook some rice after which we set off. It was not far into evening before we arrived; but the natives caught a few more penguins and one also caught a 6-foot-long snake. We slept the night in the bush, leaving the natives to rest on the other side of the fire.