meat and fish on several occasions
when help was sorely needed on account of the illness of some of their
number,--for Riedel was not the only one who was seriously ill, though
no others died. All the conditions in Georgia were so different from
what they were accustomed to in Germany that it took them some time
to adapt themselves, and longer to become really acclimated, and they
noticed that the same was true of all new-comers. All of the Moravians
were sick in turn, many suffering from frosted feet, probably injured on
the voyage over, but Spangenberg, Toeltschig, Haberecht and Demuth were
dangerously ill. Nearly all of the medicine brought from Europe was
gone, and what they could get in Savannah was expensive and they did
not understand how to use it, so they were forced to depend on careful
nursing and simple remedies. Turpentine could easily be secured from the
pines, Spangenberg found an herb which he took to be camomile, which had
a satisfactory effect, and with the coming of the cooler autumn weather
most of the party recovered their health.

Probably the food was partly responsible for their troubles, though
they tried to be careful, and cooked everything thoroughly. Rice and
salt-meat were their chief articles of diet, for bread cost so much that
they soon gave it up entirely, substituting cornmeal mush, and butter
was so dear as to be entirely out of the question. During the summer
months which preceded the harvest, they could get neither corn, rice
nor beans at the store, so lived on mush, salt-meat, and the beans they
themselves had planted. Fresh meat was a great treat, particularly when
it enabled them to prepare nourishing broth for their sick, and once
Rose shot a stag, giving them several good meals, but this happened so
seldom as to do little toward varying the monotony of their fare.

Drinking water was held to be responsible for the swollen feet and
nausea from which many of them suffered, so they made a kind of
sassafras beer, which proved palatable and healthful, and used it until
they had become accustomed to the climate, when they were able to drink
the water.

When the Moravians came to Georgia they brought with them a little ready
money, the gift of English friends, and their cash payments secured
them good credit at the Trustees' store. Other merchants sought their
patronage, but they decided to run an account at one place only, and
thought Mr. Causton, as the Trustees' agent, would give