and that they should not
baptize,--as the Spanish did,--until the people were instructed and
truly converted.

On Feb. 27th, General Oglethorpe started for the Altamaha. His journey
to Georgia on this occasion had been principally to protect the southern
borders of the colony by establishing two new towns on the frontier, and
erecting several forts near by. One company, which sailed direct
from Scotland, had landed in January, and begun a settlement at New
Inverness, on the north bank of the Altamaha, and a second was now to
be established on St. Simon Island, and was to be called Frederica.
Oglethorpe had expected to take the Salzburgers who came on the 'London
Merchant', to the southward with him, but nearly all of them decided
that they preferred to join those of their number who were preparing to
move to New Ebenezer, and the General did not insist, contenting himself
with his English soldiers.

A periagua had been started a little in advance of the sloop which bore
the provisions, arms, ammunition, and tools, and in the evening Gen.
Oglethorpe followed in a swift, ten-oared boat, called,--from the
service in which it was often employed,--a scout boat.

With the General went Mr. Ingham, and Lieut. Hermsdorf. The latter
assured Spangenberg that he had really meant little more than to
compliment the General on the occasion when he remarked "that he would
ask nothing better than to follow him through bush and valley, and see
him carry out his wise designs," that he did not know at that time that
Oglethorpe was going to the Altamaha, nor how far away the Altamaha was.
But Spangenberg gravely told him that Gen. Oglethorpe had taken his
word as that of an honest man, and that he would not attempt to hold him
back, only he wished him to so demean himself as to bring credit and
not shame to Zinzendorf and the Moravians, to whom he was at liberty to
return when he desired. Hermsdorf, therefore, went with Oglethorpe and
his fifty men, was made a Captain and was given a position of importance
in superintending the erection of the necessary fortifications on St.
Simon.

Benjamin Ingham's visit to Frederica proved to be his first unpleasant
experience in the New World. Like John Wesley, he came with the
strictest ideas of Sabbath observance, etc., and as one said, in answer
to a reproof, "these were new laws in America." The effect may be summed
up in his own words: "My chief business was daily to visit the people,
to take