Last Saturday an ax came away from me, and as I suspected, not without reason, that it had been stolen by my natives, I asked them about it today and examined their nets and bags or pouches. Not only did they allow me to do the latter, but the former voluntarily showed me their nets and generally showed great reluctance to steal them.

Julius Fiedler visited me at school today.

December 24th, 1839.
Instead of 7, I had 15 children at school today. So far they are learning easily and quickly and are giving me joy; God grant that this will never be dampened by the children's departure. Bought a parasol for Bertha, 18 shillings.

December 25th, 1839.
On today's feast the five of us celebrate Holy Communion again. Mr. Kook, who came to me last night and spent the night, complains very much about Pastor Kavel's domineering nature.

In the evening the Wirrameyunna had a brilliant Kuri, where I noticed that two Yammaiamma had a stretched out square net with four tufts of hair at the corners in their hands and were leading the game ( 203 ). After this was finished, Mullawirburka and his people had established a considerable Unyawaieti, as the natives say, and it seems to me that Kuri is peculiar to the northerners and the Unyawaieti to the southerners.

[A paw cross is also inserted here, but without any further reference.]

(Abb. 03) Paw Cross

December 26th, 1839.
The number of my students today was about 18, excluding some adults. I was in Klemzig at lunchtime. When I arrived Bertha was in church and there was little opportunity for conversation in the afternoon, so out of sheer long wait we went to Payneham(189) for tea with Mr Kook. There were a lot of people from Hahndorf and Glen Osmond in Klemzig today to attend the general meeting. Mr. Kook, who also attended, was turned away because he had not been accepted into the community; The school teacher Kavel told me that the subjects of the consultation were some water barrels received from the South Australian company and the marriage. When the latter was discussed, I was also thought of. It's becoming clearer to me every day that Pastor Kavel wants to rule, but doesn't want a brotherly relationship at all.