Master Weimann had again made something against Bertha, namely that she had said in her letter to Schlinke that she didn't want to get married yet. That's why Mr. Fiedler asked to show the letter, and if it said something like that, he would answer, he told me: Bertha wasn't getting married yet, and she hadn't said that she wouldn't fall in love. --

Tonight Bertha gave me a hand and a kiss to be mine forever;

Thank you, my God, for this priceless gift; help me to use it gratefully and conscientiously.

According to a letter from Mr. Lobeck(175) in Berlin, a doctor from Berlin and his family may be expected to settle in South Australia ( 182 ) on the next German ship, and a number of 20 young craftsmen from Berlin who want to dedicate themselves to the natives are expected here. Furthermore, the Prussian maritime trade is said to intend to trade here, and the Prussian government plans to establish a colony in Australia.

December 4th, 1839.
This evening I was just getting around to Ityamaitpinna having her forehead sucked by a Yammaiamma or Warrawarra* (that's Doctor). When he had finished, he spat out saliva mixed with blood, which he said he had sucked out of the former's forehead and was said to have cured the disease. He also took out of his mouth a small stake made of leaves or something similar, and then tore it into several pieces, while looking into the distance with a very meaningful expression, ostensibly in order to see the paitja that he was supposed to have taken or sucked from the sick person's body. The Warrawarra itself then went aside for a distance; When he came again, he wanted to suck another one just like the first one. Since I had denied ( 183 ) that he had spat out the blood from his forehead, which was completely uninjured, and had accused him of lying, this new attempt should convince me. I replied that if I had first seen the Warrawarra's tongue and mouth and, after he had sucked, blood, I would believe that he had sucked it from his forehead. This was granted to me, and when the Warrawarra showed me his tongue, I saw a small lump of coagulated blood, or something of the sort, lying on it; But when I wanted to show it to the others, he closed his mouth and wouldn't open it again. When I claimed that the Warrawarra was lying and told the others not to believe him, they became very violent, called me a mantakarrikarri-burka*, which means "one who accuses someone of lying", and asked me why I called the black people liars, since the other white people did not; yes, a young person even came and poked me in the chest. To the first I replied that other whites did not know what the blacks believed, otherwise they would tell them the same thing, ( 184 ) because God (Jehovah) had forbidden [it] to believe such things; they should only ask Kartammerru* (176) [meant is Br. Teichelmann] whether he would not say the same. To this they replied the old way, we whites believed Jehovah's word, and the blacks theirs, we were right and they were right p p. I said, but if God's Word says that theirs is bad, how can both be right?