May 17th, 1840. Sunday.
Br. Teichelmann, Bauer and me enjoyed Holy Communion together, Kleinschmidt didn't want to because he was unprepared.

Mr. Meyer, who was in New Silesia last week, told me that Julius Fiedler had spoken very much to Bertha's detriment and said that he had almost imagined that I would lose her ( 278 ). When they came back, Bertha asked, what Mr. Julius Fiedler said, to which August replied: that he (Fiedler) had never seen such a girl as she was, and the father had added that neither had he. –

In the morning I was unable to persuade the natives to attend worship as they were busy dressing the ngultas, which consisted of giving them a blanket and a net bag. A significant number of them were together in the evening, but several were not very attentive.

May 20th, 1840.
The Governor; Judge B. Bernard(216); the postmaster H. Watts(217), Jell(218) and the Misses Gawler and Conway(219) visited our school today. We sang Ngatunna pad-ne adlu, then Br. Teichelmann had the children answer some questions about creation, which I translated and then spelled, read and said the numbers. The governor and the other gentlemen expressed themselves very favorably about the rehearsals and the former wanted us to have the children do the spelling on the next Monday, which was the queen's birthday. The governor had my manuscript of our collection of words returned to me and said that he wanted to take fifty copies. He said we shouldn't delay publishing and get the printers going.

( 279 ) May 21st, 1840.
I collected a few subscriptions during the day and in the evening went to Mr. Stevenson with Br. Teichelmann to ask him to include the advertisement in his newspaper along with the signatures and to mention the company in his main essay. He changed the ad to something but refused to mention it as requested.

May 23rd, 1840.
Bertha got engaged this evening.

I wish you, my dear!, all the luck, may you find in your bridegroom what you missed in me.

May 24th, 1840. Sunday.
There were quite a number of natives gathered; I read the Ten Commandments to them and tried to make them briefly understandable; they were quite attentive. Mr Moorhouse was present for the first time.

May 25th, 1840.
After we had been to the Feyer we went back to get the natives in order or in a row of two and two, which pretty much succeeded. Henry Calton was somewhat more