Zinzendorf wrote a letter from Herrnhut to Tomochichi, commending his interest
in their message, and urging its full acceptance upon him;
the Indians gave some five acres of land for a garden,
which Rose cleared and planted, and everything looked promising,
until the influence of the Spanish war rumor was felt.
True to their nature, the fighting spirit of the Indians rose within them,
and they took the war-path against the Spanish, for the sake
of their English allies, and perhaps more for the pure love of strife.
Then Ingham decided to go to England for reinforcements, and Rose was left
in charge of the work. He seems to have been a well-meaning man,
and much beloved by the Indians, but he was not a man of much mental strength
or executive ability, and the Congregation at Savannah soon decided
that he and his wife should be recalled until the way opened
for one or more of the others to go back to Irene with him.
The "Society".
In their personal affairs the Moravians were experiencing
the usual mingling of light and shadow.
Dober's effort to make pottery was a failure, for lack of proper clay,
but through Gen.
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