from the fact that the two young people who had taken us with them from Adelaide tried to avoid us when we reminded them of their word, but that they all wanted Brother Teichelmann back when they saw that I was determined to stay with them. When he did not return, they sent a man after him so that ( 128 ) the Ngkunna (murderer) would not kill him; On this occasion they tried again to get me to turn back and perhaps I would have gone if we had not already been some distance from our camp when we heard of Br. Teichelmann's company. The large group was divided into two smaller ones, the one I joined consisted of about 20 all young people, with the exception of two men and a strong woman with her child, who went through everything at her husband's side. Since we were passing through an area denuded of game today, it was quick and over a long distance, so I was glad when we stopped. This happened on a ridge from which one could overlook the plain which bordered it, and in which our main hunt was to take place. This evening I made myself a hut and a good fire so that I would not be exposed to the same frost as the previous night; But there were so many young people hanging around me that I got little for my trouble. At first I didn't stop them because I talked to them about creation, heaven (the house of God above) and hell (the fiery hole below), about the future judgment of the world and so on, and I got it to such a point that they didn't laugh (as they usually did) but listened carefully to my broken sentences, which is why I ( 129 ) couldn't get rid of them later.

September 11th, 1839.
The hunt did not go into the plain, as I had thought, but sideways towards the last foothills of the mountains; At 11 o'clock we already had a kangaroo, which the dogs had driven into the water, or rather which had jumped into the water in its fright and was subsequently beaten to death with their clubs by the natives who had rushed after the dog's barking. While it was being prepared, two young men nearby hunted a second one, which was brought over and roasted in the same hole. There were only a few of us, as the larger half of the already smaller crowd left us this morning; That's why we each had to carry as much as we could carry. When we arrived at our campsite, we found the whole group complete again, some of which were carrying a third kangaroo, which our dogs had chased down and which had been caught by them. Although it was already dark, they were immediately slaughtered and stewed; When the first catch was made, I asked for a tail that I wanted to give to my Bertha as proof of how close she was to me in the bush, but they always put me off until the next time; I now believed that I would definitely get the tail from this third one, and most of them demanded it for me, but one old miser didn't want to. Now I acted like I was offended, ( 130 ) reproaching them for breaking their word, and when they again referred me to tomorrow, I said that tomorrow and the day after that they would say that tomorrow would never come to us; to which they laughed. My brother Tuitpurro, however, who always spoke up for me, said that if I didn't have a cock tomorrow he would get angry.