July 5th, 1839.
Towards the evening, when me and Br. Teichelmann were busy removing the frame from the earthen wall of my future native neighbor's house, the governor came over with his private secretary and not only spoke sympathetically about the new settlement, but also told the protector of the natives that he would give us a small Timor horse for our journey to Encounter Bay and let Br. Teichelmann and me pay the bill of exchange that we expect from Germany.

July 7th, 1839. Sunday.
In the evening, Preacher Stow heard in the newly opened Methodist chapel about Gal. 3.1.

( 087 ) July 8th, 1839.
In the evening I had the native Mauwitpinna with me again, who told me a lot about a Munaintyerlo and his pair of sisters, as well as about a kangaroo that had come back to life and about the Yamaiama, which I still didn't understand.

July 9th, 1839.
A native gave me an attractive description of the way in which the blacks hunt kangaroos, dogs, emu, etc., the latter and former with nets, the dogs, because they chewed the nets, were speared with large spears. The emu are pursued by a man who positions himself so that the animal remains between him and the wind until the sun sets and the animal lies down; When it gets dark, the other men come after them, but the women and children stay at home. Arriving at the deer's lair, they disperse and form a circle around it, spread their nets and light a lot of fire in order to be able to see. When the emu sees this, it gets up and wants to leave, but everywhere it meets nets and the hunters are already shouting with joy: ngadlukko paru, ngadlukko paru; our prey, our prey. As soon as such a catch becomes known, the neighbors come to take part in the fat feast, which the hunters have long since had their fill of, and so much so that they do not go out looking for prey the following day.

July 10th, 1839.
Today, after two failed attempts, I made the third attempt to adopt a native boy named Nanto Munaitya; he is younger than Waritya the first and Munaitya the second, whom I had with me.

( 088 ) In the afternoon Judge Cooper(105) came to my neighbor's building site and asked for Mr. Moorhouse, who was present at the time. After conversing with the latter for a while, he came to me and spoke very kindly about the durability of the earth houses, the natives, and so on.

July 11th, 1839.
In the evening the natives, the Wonkameyo and the Marimeyo, had a heated argument, perhaps caused by insults, but the aim was to save the life of one of the