Oglethorpe followed in a swift, ten-oared boat, called, --
from the service in which it was often employed, -- a scout boat.
With the General went Mr. Ingham, and Lieut. Hermsdorf.
The latter assured Spangenberg that he had really meant little more
than to compliment the General on the occasion when he remarked
"that he would ask nothing better than to follow him through bush and valley,
and see him carry out his wise designs," that he did not know at that time
that Oglethorpe was going to the Altamaha, nor how far away the Altamaha was.
But Spangenberg gravely told him that Gen. Oglethorpe had taken his word
as that of an honest man, and that he would not attempt to hold him back,
only he wished him to so demean himself as to bring credit and not shame
to Zinzendorf and the Moravians, to whom he was at liberty to return when
he desired. Hermsdorf, therefore, went with Oglethorpe and his fifty men,
was made a Captain and was given a position of importance
in superintending the erection of the necessary fortifications on St. Simon.
Benjamin Ingham's visit to Frederica proved to be his first
unpleasant experience in the New World.
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