December 10th, 1839.
I visited my bride again. She had been in town but [had] not been able to visit me as I had expected due to busy business and lack of time. When it came to the point that she might soon be able to move to New Silesia(177) ( 187 ) because [her] father intended to take over livestock on behalf of others and to spend the summer in the place mentioned, I reminded her that the distance between me and her would then become that great again, again asking what she said about it, to which

she replied: it is and will be a sour apple.

Me: she could always avoid biting it.

She: how so?

Me, jokingly, said she could only do with me as she had already done with someone else and tell me to go my own way.

She: I'm pretty sure of that.

In the evening we read a little again in the "Vicar of Wakefield"(178).

December 11th, 1839.
Since I had stayed the night in Klemzig, I went into town with Mr. Fiedler today and spent an hour or so with him at Teichelmann's [house]. The natives have the news among them that two of the northerners have been murdered.

December 12th, 1839.
Mullawirraburka and Ilyamai itpinna were with me this evening, to whom I again explained what we, me and Br. Teichelmann, actually wanted among them and at the same time that [they] didn't have to believe such lies; if they thought that their relatives had been stabbed to death by an evil person without any traces of violence being seen on them; nor even if someone pretends to cure [an] illness by sucking ( 188 ) and the like. The conversation was immediately over.

A woman came to me to get leeches from me; Since the two natives mentioned promised to look for some tomorrow, I told the woman to come back the next evening. But the natives [did not] keep their word, which is why I made harsh accusations against them, which they felt.

December 13th, 1839.
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December 14th, 1839.
Idla Waritya, who was mentioned on October 30th, came back from the bush this evening with a large number of friends to beat the old man, Parriwongaburka*. At first Ilyamaitpinna and Murrparaiitpinna* successfully acted as mediators between