Eastern men who is said to have stabbed a Wonkameyo. The anger, even murderousness, on the part of the latter was so great that I really expected that one of them would have seen the sun set for the last time today.

Br. Teichelmann received a letter containing £2 from an unnamed person or Juvenis [youthful friend].

July 12th, 1839.
The Protector told me that the Governor had shown himself very pleased with the economy shown to the natives, that the northern limit of their settlement should be the ditch or dry river bed, which extends not far from the harbor road.

Our trip to Encounter Bay is scheduled for July 22nd.

I found it necessary to scold my Nanto [Munaitya] so hard that he cried.

Moorhouse said that he was in complete agreement with Wyatt's view of the representation of the native language, which said that ours was half German and half French, and was not to be approved of because it was foreign and a hindrance to the learning of English by the natives. But I told him my opposite opinion;

Mr. Meier told me that Schlinke(106) went to Klemzig with him yesterday and acted extremely friendly towards Bertha(107), as usual.

( 089 ) July 14th, 1839. Sunday.
Preacher Stow heard about Romans: 8.

July 17th, 1839.
Mauwitpinna told me this evening that his father was speared by an Eastern man while he was out hunting kangaroos. Afterwards he went to see him with one of the recently hanged men and, after he threw his spear into his arm, he hit the murderer through the upper body, so that the spear drove through the body again into the ground and the wounded man died instantly. The hostility and slaughter of the natives must have been terrible in the past.

Today I had the opportunity to observe that a native woman of Van Diemensland(108) can no more pronounce the "F" and "S" than the local natives, which circumstance seems to me to indicate a relationship of the language.

July 20th, 1839.
Unfortunately, from the conversation I had this evening with a native, it became all too clear to me what I had previously refused to believe, namely that the natives often kill newborn children if the mother has many of them. Such a murder is said to have occurred recently in Ngarinkaparinga. No wonder, then, that the natives are few.