s undesirable flotsam and jetsam. The plans
for the colony, the hopes for its well-being, wear a tranquil and fair
countenance.

Oglethorpe himself would go with the first colonists. His ship was the
Anne of two hundred tons burden--the last English colonizing ship with
which this narrative has to do--and to her weathered sails there still
clings a fascination. On board the Anne, beside the crew and master, are
Oglethorpe himself and more than a hundred and twenty Georgia
settlers, men, women, and children. The Anne shook forth her sails in
mid-November, 1732, upon the old West Indies sea road, and after two
months of prosperous faring, came to anchor in Charles Town harbor.

South Carolina, approving this Georgia settlement which was to open the
country southward and be a wall against Spain, received the colonists
with hospitality. Oglethorpe and the weary colonists rested from long
travel, then hoisted sail again and proceeded on their way to Port
Royal, and southward yet to the mouth of the Savannah. Here there was
further tarrying while Oglethorpe and picked men went in a small boat up
the river to choose the site where they should build their town.

Here, upon the lower reaches, there lay a fair plateau, a mile
long, rising forty feet above the stream. Near by stood a village of
well-inclined Indians--the Yamacraws. Ships might float upon the
river, close beneath the tree-crowned bluff. It was springtime now and
beautiful in the southern land--the sky azure, the air delicate, the
earth garbed in flowers. Little wonder then that Oglethorpe chose
Yamacraw Bluff for his town.

A trader from Carolina was found here, and the trader's wife, a
half-breed, Mary Musgrove by name, did the English good service. She
made her Indian kindred friends with the newcomers. From the first
Oglethorpe dealt wisely with the red men. In return for many coveted
goods, he procured within the year a formal cession of the land between
the two rivers and the islands off the coast. He swore friendship and
promised to treat the Indians justly, and he kept his oath. The site
chosen, he now returned to the Anne and presently brought his colonists
up the river to that fair place. As soon as they landed, these first
Georgians began immediately to build a town which they named Savannah.

Ere long other emigrants arrived. In 1734 came seventy-eight German
Protestants from Salzburg, with Baron von Reck and two pastors for
leaders. The next year s