aside of Spangenberg's. By the 14th the cabin on Spangenberg's town
lot was finished. It was twenty feet long, ten feet wide, and fourteen
feet high, with a little loft where they slept, their goods, with a
table and benches being in the room below. At daybreak they rose, sang a
hymn, and prayed together, breakfasted at eight o'clock, the daily text
being read aloud, then worked until half past eleven, when they dined
and read the Bible. More work, an evening prayer service, and such
conference as was needed that each might engage in the next day's labor
to the best advantage, prepared them for their well-earned repose.

With this simple program steadily carried out, much was accomplished.
A fence was built around a small kitchen-garden on their town property,
and a chicken-yard was enclosed, while the neighbors came to look on and
opine "that the Moravians had done more in a week than their people in
two years." As the gardens (the five acre lots) lay at some distance
from Savannah, a hut was built there, to serve as a shelter against sun
and rain, a heavy storm having chased them home one day soon after their
arrival.

Either from the noonday heat, or other conditions to which they were not
yet acclimated, Gotthard Demuth and George Haberland became seriously
ill, causing Spangenberg much anxiety, for he did not feel at liberty to
send for a physician, as they could not afford to pay for medicine.
So resort was had to bleeding, then an approved practice, and to such
medicine as remained from their voyage, and Rose was fortunate enough
to shoot a grouse, which gave them some much needed palatable meat and
broth. Perhaps the most serious case was Gottfried Haberecht's, who
suffered for several days with fever resulting from a cut on his leg.
Finally oak-leaves were heated and bound about the limb, which induced
free perspiration and quickly relieved him, so that he was able to
return to work!

A day was appointed on which Spangenberg and several others were to ride
out into the country to select the five hundred acre tract granted
to Count Zinzendorf, and the additional two hundred acres which the
Trustees had promised to hold in reserve, and grant to the Count's
"servants" whenever he should request it, but there was rumor of a raid
by hostile Indians, under Spanish influence, so the expedition had to be
postponed, with the promise, however, that it should be made as soon as
possible.

By the close of the third we