Meanwhile the New York merchant found an opportunity
to send what was ordered from him, so the Moravians had been surprised
by a double quantity, which proved to be just what they needed
during the general scarcity. When the friends in Pennsylvania heard
that provisions had been sent, but not enough to last until the next harvest,
they gave thirty-six hundred pounds of flour to Spangenberg to be taken,
as a present, to the Georgia Moravians, and when word was received that
Spangenberg's ship was lost, they sent an additional eighteen hundred pounds,
so the "Society" was well supplied with this necessary article of food
for some time to come.
In their household affairs the Moravians had had various experiences.
Hermsdorf had been so thoroughly frightened by the demonstrations
against the Moravians that on the 16th of May he had sailed for Germany,
regardless of Toeltschig's efforts to persuade him to wait,
as his wife might even then be on her way to join him.
Not only did he fear the townspeople so greatly that day and night
he stayed in his room "as in a prison", but he was still more afraid
to face Gen. Oglethorpe, who, it was said, would soon return.
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