The ship glides smoothly and quietly along. The nights are mild and pleasant,
being beautifully adorned with the shining hosts of stars,
"Forever singing as they shine,
The Hand that made us is divine."
-- Ingham's Journal.)
====== 10 Jan. 1736.
Nitschmann. Jan. 10th.
(We have been running for several days with the Trade winds.
Here the day is two hours longer than it is in Germany at this season.
The sailors wished to adhere to their custom of initiating those
who crossed the Tropic of Cancer for the first time, but Gen. Oglethorpe
forbade it. The weak, the children, and the sick, are well cared for,
so that the nine months' old child receives an egg and some goat's milk
every day. -- Dober's Diary.)
====== 12 Jan. 1736.
Nitschmann. Jan. 12th.
To-day, according to the old style, we celebrated the New Year.
====== 20 Jan. 1736.
Nitschmann. Jan. 20th.
An English clergyman asked us how often we celebrated the Lord's Supper,
saying that he thought it a sacrifice which consecrated and improved the life.
We told him our view; he said he would like to visit Herrnhut.
(We re-crossed the Tropic of Cancer.
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