pzz Geo. II. Naval Expeditions , &c. oj the English, Book VI.
?73 3. The Beginning of July, Advice cameSpaniih Men from. New England, that two Spanishof War at- Ay en of War, one of sixty and the o-e/’Britilh ther or leventy Guns, had attacked aMerchant Fleet of English Merchant-Ships, whichShip 5 - were loading Salt for the Fishery, in thedesolate Island of Sal Sortuga, to Lee-ward of Barbadoes, under Convoy ofHis Majesty’s Ship the Scarborough, oftwenty Guns and about a Hundred andtwenty Men, Captain Durell, Com-mander. This brave Commander keptthe two large Spanijh. Ships so close inAction, for several Hours that he gaveBravery of an Opportunity to two and thirty ShipsCaptain to escape, and the Spaniards were glad
Durell. to make off with four only, (h) which
they took in the Beginning,
A farther Mr. Oglethorp, having settled his firstfheTdrgL Colony at Savanna, in Georgia, return-Colony. ed to South-Carohna, to solhcit Aliiit-ance from that flourishing Colony, forthe new Colony of Georgia, and he ob-tained from the Assembly two ThousandPounds, of their Currency, for the As-sistance of the Georgia-Beo^le, the firstYear ; And, soon after, their Committeeof Supply voted twelve ThousandPounds, of their Currency, to be raised
“ of which he sowed with Wheat, which is come" up, and looks promising. He has two or three“ Gardens, which he has sowed with divers Sorts“ of Seeds, and plantedThyme,w'ith other Sorts of“ Pot-Herbs, Sage, Leeks, Skellions, Sellery, Li-“ quorice, &c. and several Sorts of Fruit-Trees.c - He was palliffading the Town round, including" some Part of the Common, which I suppose“ may be finished in a Fortnight’s Time. In“ short, he has done a vast deal of Work for the“ Time, and, I think his Name justly deserves to“ be immortalized,
" Mr. Oglethorp has with him, Sir Walter“ Raleigh ’s written Journal, and by the Latitude" of the Place, the Marks and Tradition of the“ Indians, it is the very Place where he first“ went ashoar, and talked with the Indians , and" Was the first EngUJhman they ever saw. About“ half a Mile from Savanna is a high Mount of“ Earth, under which lies their chief King, and" the Indians informed Mr. Oglethorp, that the“ King desired before he died, that he might" be buried on the Spot where he talked with" that great good Man.
“ The River Water is very good, and Mr.“ Oglethorp has proved it several Ways, and“ thinks it is as good as the River of Thames. The" nineteenth, we took our Leave of Mr. Ogle-“ thorp , and embarked for Charles-Iown ; And“ when we set off, he was pleased to honour us" with a Volly of small Arms, and the Discharge" of five Cannon, Coming down the Rivers, we“ found the Water perfectly fresh, fix Miles be-“ low the Town, and saw fix or seven large“ Sturgeons leap, with which Fish, that River a-“ bounds, as also with Trout, Pearch, Gat-and“ Rock-fiih, Nr. And, in the Winter-feafon there“ is Variety of Wild Fowl, especially Turkeys,“ some of them weighing thirty Pounds, and A-" bundance of Deer.
for the Assistance of the Georgia-Colonj, 1373 3.
for the Year ensuing ; The Inhabitantsof Charles-Town , subscribed farther, a-mong themselves, a Thousand Pounds,Currency, for the fame Purpose, ofwhich five Hundred Pounds were imme-diately paid Mr. Oglethorp, which heemployed in the Buying of Cattle, forthe Use of the New Colony.
The fourteenth of May, (i) Mr. Ogle-thorp set out from Charles-sown, on hisReturn to Savanna ; That Night, he kyat Colonel Bull's House at djhley- River,where he dined, the next Day. TheReverend Mr. Guy, Rector of the Parishof St. Johns , waited on him- there, andacquainted him, that his Paristionershad raised a"very handsome Contribution,for the Assistance of the Colony of Geor-gia. Mr. Oglethorp went from thence toCaptain Bull's, where he lay the fif-teenth ; The sixteenth, in the Morning,he embark’d at Daho, and rested atMr. Cockran' s Ifland. The seventeenth,he dined at Mr. IVatts’ s at Beaufort >and landed at Savanna , the eighteenthswhere he found, that Mr. Wiggan tthe Interpreter, with the chief Men ofall the Lower Creek Nations, (F) were
come
" The Indians who are thereabouts are very fond" of him, and astist them what they can ; And" Mr. Oglethorp , on the other Side, is very civil" and kind to them. We arrived, the twenty-first," Safety, at Charles-town.
fh) These four were the Catherine, AndrewWoodbury, Master, valued at upwards of sevenThousand Pounds, New England Currency ; TheBrigantine, Two Sisters, Captain Habbakitk Gar-diner ; The Hopewell, John Wells, Master, andthe Three Brothers, Thomas Gutteridge , Master,both Brigantines: And we have several more In-stance* of their Insults, during the Course of this.Year.
(/) The fame Day, Captain Tonlzely, in theShip, Burden, a Hundred and ten Tuns,
arrived at the Savanna , from London , with Pas-sengers and Stores, for that Place. The Shiprode in two Fathom and a half Water, at LowWater-Mark, close to the Town, and unloadedthere ; And the Captain received the Prize,whichthe Trustees had ordered to be given, to the firstShip that should unload at that Town- In hisPassage up the River, he found the Bar, and Chan-nel of the River, very good, and Water enoughfor Ships of much greater Burden.
(k) The Lower Creeks are a Nation of Indians,who formerly consisted of ten, but now are redu-ced to eight Tribes, or Towns, which have eachtheir different Government, but are allied toge-ther, and speak the fame Language. They claim,from the Savanna River, at far as S. Aaguftin,and up to the Flirit-River, which falls into theBay of Mexico. All the Indians inhabiting thisTract speak their Language; And Tcmo Chachi,Mico (or King) and the Indians, of Tammacrow,are of their Nation and Language.