wn standpoint, and now, with
no petty self-assertion, he quietly awaited developments, and told
Spangenberg all that had happened since Neisser's departure.

As the alarm concerning an immediate invasion by the Spanish had died
away, the inhabitants of Savannah had regained their composure, and the
wild outcry against the Moravians gradually ceased. The wagon and oxen
which had been taken for work on the fort had been returned to their
owners, after seven or eight weeks of hard usage, and the hope that
starvation would shake the resolution of the non-combatants had signally
failed of fulfillment. The ship which was to bring the town supplies had
been twelve weeks late in coming, and the stock in the store-house
was almost exhausted. The authorities therefore had announced that
provisions would be sold only to those who were helping build the fort.
This entirely excluded the Moravians, but instead of suffering from
hunger they had been able to share with some of their neighbors. The
prices charged at the store in Savannah were always high, so, as he was
passing through New York on his return from St. Thomas, Spangenberg had
asked a friend to send the Moravians two thousand pounds of flour and
salt-meat, for which they were to pay. The merchant at that time knew
of no ship sailing for Savannah, so in Philadelphia, Spangenberg had
arranged that two thousand pounds of meat should be sent from there
at once on a year's credit. Meanwhile the New York merchant found an
opportunity to send what was ordered from him, so the Moravians had been
surprised by a double quantity, which proved to be just what they needed
during the general scarcity. When the friends in Pennsylvania heard that
provisions had been sent, but not enough to last until the next harvest,
they gave thirty-six hundred pounds of flour to Spangenberg to be taken,
as a present, to the Georgia Moravians, and when word was received that
Spangenberg's ship was lost, they sent an additional eighteen hundred
pounds, so the "Society" was well supplied with this necessary article
of food for some time to come.

In their household affairs the Moravians had had various experiences.
Hermsdorf had been so thoroughly frightened by the demonstrations
against the Moravians that on the 16th of May he had sailed for Germany,
regardless of Toeltschig's efforts to persuade him to wait, as his wife
might even then be on her way to join him. Not only did he fear the
townspeople so g