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the coolness and because the alligators were not 

 stirring so soon. We heard them, indeed, snoring all 

 around us, and one very early riser swam by within a 

 few yards of us. On Friday morning we had hardly 

 left our usual place of swimming when we saw an 

 alligator in possession of it. Once afterward Mr. 

 Delamotte was in great danger, for an alligator rose 

 just behind him, and pursued him to the land, whither 

 he narrowly escaped." 



The house in which Mr. John Wesley and Delamotte 

 were to reside at Savannah not being yet ready, they 

 took up their lodging, on Wednesday, the 25th of Feb- 

 ruary, with the Moravians, and had an opportunity 

 day by day of observing their whole behavior. " They 

 were always employed, always cheerful themselves, 

 and in good humor with one another; they had put 

 away all anger, and strife, and wrath, and bitterness, 

 and clamor, and evil-speaking; they walked worthy of 

 the vocation wherewith they were called, and adorned 

 the gospel of our Lord in all things. They met Sat- 

 urday, the 28th, to consult concerning the affairs of 

 their Church — Mr. Spangenburg being shortly to go 

 to Pennsylvania, and Bishop Nitschman to return to 

 Germany. After several hours spent in conference 

 and prayer, they proceeded to the election and ordina- 

 tion of a bishop. The great simplicity as well as 

 solemnity of the whole almost made me forget the 

 seventeen hundred years between, and imagine myself 

 in one of those assemblies where form and state were 

 not; but Paul the tent-maker or Peter the fisherman 

 presided, yet with the demonstration of the spirit and 

 of power." 



Mr. Wesley entered regularly upon the duties of 

 his ministry at Savannah, March 7, 1736, by preaching 



