arts of water (whereof one of the quarts
for drinking), each head by the day for the space of a month.

"And a gallon of water (whereof two quarts for drinking) each head, by
the day after, during their being on their Passage."

Another Moravian was chosen as nurse of the company, although it
happened at least once that he was incapacitated, for every man in the
party was sick except Spangenberg, who was a capital sailor, and not
affected by rough weather. His endurance was severely tested too, for
while the breeze at times was so light that they unitedly prayed for
wind, "thinking that the sea was not their proper element, for from the
earth God had made them, and on the earth He had work for them to do,"
at other times storms broke upon them and waves swept the decks, filling
them with awe, though not with fear. "The wind was high, the waves
great, we were happy that we have a Saviour who would never show us
malice; especially were we full of joy that we had a witness in our
hearts that it was for a pure purpose we sailed to Georgia,"--so runs
the quaint record of one tempestuous day.

A more poetic expression of the same thought is given by Spangenberg in
a poem written during the voyage, and sent home to David Nitschmann to
be set to the music of some "Danish Melody" known to them both. There is
a beauty of rhythm in the original which the English cannot reproduce,
as though the writer had caught the cadence of the waves, on some bright
day when the ship "went softly" after a season of heavy storm.

"Gute Liebe, deine Triebe
Zuenden unsre Triebe an,
Dir zu leben, dir zu geben,
Was ein Mensch dir geben kann;
Denn dein Leben, ist, zu geben
Fried' und Segen aus der Hoeh.
Und das Kraenken zu versenken
In die ungeheure See.

"Herr wir waren von den Schaaren
Deiner Schaeflein abgetrennt;
Und wir liefen zu den Tiefen,
Da das Schwefelfeuer brennt,
Und dein Herze brach vor Schmerze,
Ueber unsern Jammerstand;
O wie liefst du! O wie riefst du!
Bist du uns zu dir gewandt.

"Als die Klarheit deiner Wahrheit
Unsern ganzen Geist durchgoss,
Und von deinen Liebesscheinen
Unser ganzes Herz zerfloss,
O wie regte und bewegte
Dieses deine Liebesbrust,
Uns zu hegen und zu pflegen,
Bis zur suessen Himmelslust.

"Dein Erbarmen wird uns Armen,
Alle Tage wieder neu,
Mit was su