As soon as Schlinke was absent, a smiling look from Bertha told me what impression his now and then visible chivalry made on her; She was obviously more clingy today than before, especially when she left, so it was all the more significant for me ( 115 ) that she refused my two-time request to write to me, supposedly because she found it difficult and, on the other hand, asked for my frequent visits. Was this out of stupidity or a feeling of her weakness, or did she deny me my request so as not to be tempted to give me certain explanations now?

Late in the evening Br. Teichelmann was with me, who seemed to suspect my relationship with Bertha, as he jokingly accused me of it and advised me to take her with me to Encounter Bay, praising her wonderful qualities and all her amiability. One feature of her face was not beautiful enough for him, otherwise he would have courted her himself; But he didn't want to tell me the same thing so that when we put our heads together we wouldn't be able to chat about it.

September 1st, 1839. Sunday.
There was great excitement among the natives when the southern men wanted to attack the eastern men, ostensibly because they were complaining, but in fact because of Mullawirraburka's recently deceased brother, whom the eastern men are said to have stabbed, and because of old quarrels(139). Speaking to the whole crowd for the first time, I explained to them the injustice of their enmity and that the excuse that they had scolded them was not valid, since they had first given them the reason for it and were now the aggressors and therefore everyone was to blame. Few ( 116 ) agree with me, many, e.g. B. Ityamaiitpinna, asserted their rights wildly and passionately, most of them ridiculed my ideas. Nevertheless, I am convinced that several people have kept a thorn in their conscience and have become afraid of the fire into which Jehovah will cast all wicked people. Towards the evening Br. Teichelmann and I were with the Easterners, to whom we told about the hostility of the Southerners and who were very orderly. To my no small delight I saw among them a man named Ngannoaltuwitpenna, whom I had seen earlier at Mount Barker(140) with Messrs. Kook and Meier. We were lost and very thirsty, so it was no less of a service that the aforementioned native showed us water and the way. Even though it was dark, he recognized me straight away and after some thinking back and forth, I remembered him too; We were both very happy when I told him where we met [and] that he had shown us water and so on and so we clearly recognized each other.

In the evening, Br. Teichelmann told me, to my astonishment, that Pastor Kavel had refused to give him Holy Communion on Holy Friday, ostensibly because of his tension with me. May this insulting humiliation have a positive effect and not just result in dislike for Pastor Kavel.

( 117 ) September 2nd, 1839.
Together with Br. Teichelmann at Preacher Longbottom(141); At four o'clock in the evening we attended a prayer meeting led by him in the Methodist chapel.