views on the right of the native inhabitants and the opposite of the English, or of expressing them openly, I naturally preferred the latter, even at the risk of losing Mr. Hall's friendship. I said that one could not blame the Indians [in America] for striving for their independence, but that the English had only usurped supremacy. To his question: "I would probably also ( 014 ) be against their going to South Australia?", my principles only allowed me to answer: "[That] goes without saying". As a result of this conversation he gave me a book(22) from the governor, containing statements from witnesses about the influence of the English colonies on the natives, which I am now reading with great interest, although it is written in a somewhat rambling and stiff form.

This evening some travelers in the "steerage" asked us to lead an evening prayer, which we did willingly and stammered our prayers as well as the foreign language permitted. We were very disturbed by the shouts of the Methodists during the prayer, by the restlessness of the people and by the sailors who came down after the end of the final song and started singing.

June 21st, 1848.
Today I came across a letter that had recently come from Adelheid. The most important thing in it - was the news about the enormous wages that were paid there, 10 shillings a day, and also that vice, especially drunkenness, prevailed there on an enormous scale.

June 23rd, 1838.
To get an idea of how much headwind we have had to contend with so far, it can be helpful to note that we were just opposite Lisbon today; Today the wind was so favorable that we covered 1 1/2 [nautical] miles every hour on our true course.

( 015 ) In reading the statements mentioned under the 20th of June, I was struck by a few passages which seemed to me too important and too speechless for the opinion I had held for so many years not to notice them here:

Mr. Coates: (23) asserted that experience and history prove that the expansion of the white population leads to the reduction and gradual extermination of the black natives.

Mr. Beecham: (24) Unless eternal justice itself changes, or I have to stick with the fact that taking possession of foreign lands without regard to their inhabitants is essentially and morally wrong, and that the English. Colonization system was founded on a principle of injustice.

Mr. Williams: (25)In the cause of introducing Christianity among a people, I would far rather go to a country where one has never seen a European than to go to a place where one has had intercourse with Europeans. I would ten times rather meet them in their wild state than after they have consorted with Europeans.