that I had difficulty understanding him. His language is different from that contained in Threlkeld's grammar, he could not read, but said he was educated, but not baptized, which I understood him correctly. According to him, his countrymen, who are much more numerous than the natives here, receive rations at £1 a week, build houses and farms, have lessons in their language from the priests (Parson, his expressions are very mean), and so on. He promised to come back tomorrow or something. Captain Sturt's(145) brother brought him overland. --

Mr. Meier came to me unexpectedly and told me a lot of what Julius Fiedler [had] said in relation to ( 137 ) Fiedler and Bertha. The latter is sluggish and the like, he turned her down and not she turned him down. Today Wattewattitpinna's* younger wife gave birth to her first child, which she calls Kartanye*, from which it appears that the children are named after the succession in which they were born from the mother, and not after the father.

September 18th, 1839.
Mr. Meier accompanied me to Klemzig today, which was very unpleasant to me because his presence disrupted the conversation with Bertha. What Mr. Meier said about Bertha's blossoming is becoming truer day by day. My suspicion that Ferdinand Kavel was looking for Bertha was confirmed today by the latter himself. That Bertha loves deeply, I no longer need to take only her friendly attention as proof, but also her increasing familiarity in the conversation. I never leave without her asking me when I'll be back. --

September 19th, 1839.
Pastor Kavel was with me, who suggested that I take Friedrich Krummnow(146) with me to Encounter Bay, which of course I had little hope for.

September 22nd, 1839. Sunday.
I was invited to lunch by Mr. Fiedler, which is why I left around 9 a.m. in order to be early enough for the service. When I arrived, I caught Bertha in her morning dress, just about to decorate herself. A bashful blush flashed over her at the sight of me, which showed me her peculiar beauty.

( 138 ) In addition to me, Mr. Meyer was invited to the table and in the afternoon Kleinschmidt and Schlinke, along with several others, also came, so that the afternoon was pretty much lost. But during the evening service, Bertha and I had the house alone. Intimate conversations, some poems from [Theodor] Körner(147), [among others "Lützows wild hunt"(148)] and Ferdinnd Kavel's master sheet for Bertha, as well as the end of the accompanying letter, were the subjects of our conversation. Later Fritz and Ferdinand Kavel came and over a glass of wine and a pipe of tobacco we chatted until half past one o'clock. All this time Bertha sat on my right side, drinking from one glass with me. When the talk came about Mr. Fiedler's trip to Hahndorf, I promised to accompany him. On the way I told Kleinschmidt my relationship with Bertha on the condition that he not reveal it.