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C. W. Schürmann

J. Th. Nickel [Theodor August Friedrich Wilhelm Nickel(001)]
Hamburg 25
Güstrow in Mecklenburg

The Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Australia

Archives: File Schuermann, diaries (1)
No. 9

1840 – 1845

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September 1840 – January 1845

1840

Journey to Port Lincoln(002)

( 007 ) September 10th, 1840.
Unexpectedly, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon I received the news from Mr. Moorhouse(003) that the "Alice", the cutter that was supposed to take me to Port Lincoln, would sail today. So I quickly saddled up our ponies and Gottfried(004) and I trotted to the harbor, almost certain that we would come back because the "Alice" would not sail. Was it this belief that held the Brothers Klose(005) [Klose arrived together with Heinrich August Eduard Meyer(006) in Australia] and Teichelmann(007) back, or was it indifference, enough, that they didn't say goodbye to me. When we arrived at the harbor, Mr. Philipps(008) told me that he was happy that I had come because the "Alice" was waiting for me and that he had already sent to the city to have me come as soon as possible. The "Alice" was actually waiting for me, but my things, which had been in Philipp's department store since yesterday, were still on the shore and were about to be embarked. After this had happened, shortly after sunset, we lifted the anchor to go out of the canal with the ebb tide, but soon had to throw it out again because of adverse winds.