such as B. Kemp and Bishop were indignant ( 082 ) against the natives and inexhaustible in their foresights for the future in consequence of this incident. By the way, the fact that the natives for the first time these days did not send their wives to me, but to Dr. Harvey showed how suspicious they are of single Europeans.

June 20th, 1841. Sunday.
As we came out of the service, McDonald and Barnard honored me with a gentle visit, and McDonald invited us both to his place for lunch. The subjects of our conversation were of a variety of kinds, including politics, whereby it becomes increasingly clear what a fine aristocrat he is in his principles. He said, among other things, that the Austrian government was the most natural and best in all of Europe.

June 21st, 1841.
I rode out with Barnard to bring home his black mare, but we did not achieve our purpose. Barnard's conversation convinced me that he was not the proud and morally dead man that I had hitherto taken [him] to be; he is vain and this seems to me to be the main source of all evil in him.

June 22nd, 1841.
Nungalta* and Yulgalta* came to me (the latter is the son of Punalta), and in the course of the week they were joined by others whom I employed with clearing up trees that were in ( 083 ) the road.

June 25th, 1841.
The ship "Governor Gawler" arrived without bringing me a single letter.

June 26th, 1841.
Dr. Harvey asked me to send him a list of the provisions I had distributed among the natives, adding that he had given away 200 pounds of biscuits, which I was to take away cheaply. My silence didn't seem to satisfy him much, so he began to rant about the natives, especially about Murpa and his behavior in his house a few days ago. He said that he had wanted to spear him and that the other blacks had stayed with him all day to protect him. If he had had a gun at that moment, he added, he would have shot him.

June 27th, 1841. Sunday.
It was a bit rainy, which is why Dr. Harvey used to neglect the church service. In the evening Rush came to me complaining that the natives had stolen flour, bread, rice and potatoes from him that afternoon while he was away. I directed him to McDonald.

June 28th, 1841.
It turned out that yesterday evening Gottfried Kappler saw the native Kanyokalendi at Rush's house ( 084 ) and ordered him to go away. On this account he was