Moreover several English boys
should be apprenticed to them to learn the trade. Hemp and flax seed
should also be given them, and he urged them to weave the linen, for they
had men who understood the art, and cloth was scarce and dear in Georgia.
He also advised them to buy oxen to use in cultivating their land;
and said that they should have one-third of the grape-vines
he had brought over with him, another portion was to be given to Tomochichi,
the remainder to be planted in his own garden.
On the 8th, Spangenberg and Nitschmann returned to Savannah,
and with Andrew Dober and John Wesley, (who had now moved from the ship,)
proceeded up the river to Mrs. Musgrove's, about five miles distant.
Wesley wished to select a site for a small house, which Oglethorpe
had promised to build for him, where he and his companions might live
while they were studying the Indian language, under Mrs. Musgrove's direction.
Nitschmann wanted to visit and talk with the Indian "King", Tomochichi,
and Dober was trying to find some clay suitable for pottery.
The following day they returned to Savannah, and Mr. Wesley and Mr. Delamotte
took up their abode with the Moravians, as Mr.
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