Nitschmann. Dec. 18th. We lifted the anchor at three o’clock, but as we got under sail the wind changed again. We must stay still, but what the Lord intends we do not know. ---- Wesley. Dec. 7th, Sunday. Finding nature did not require such frequent supplies as we had been accustomed to, we agreed to leave off suppers; from doing which we have hitherto found no inconvenience. ====== 21 Dec. 1735. Nitschmann. Dec. 21st. An east wind sprang up, and with the help of God we sailed at nine o’clock from Cowes, where we had been for five weeks and three days. When we reached the open sea many became sea-sick. There was so much to be done that we could not hold our prayer-meeting, for our people help in all the work, and therefore the sailors treat us well, no matter what they think of us in their hearts. In the evening our song service was much blessed. (With us went two ships, the man-of-war, and that which carried Baron von Reck and his Salzburgers. Two of the Salzburgers were on shore, and were left behind when the ship sailed, whereat their wives and children who were on board, were sorely grieved.--Dober’s Diary.) ---- Wesley. Dec. 10th, Wednesday. We sailed from Cowes, and in the afternoon passed the Needles. From this day to the fourteenth being in the Bay of Biscay, the sea was very rough. Mr. Delamotte and others were more sick than ever; Mr. Ingham a little; I not at all. But the fourteenth being a calm day, most of the sick were cured at once. ====== 22 Dec. 1735. Nitschmann. Dec. 22nd. The wind was east, and we sailed nine miles an hour, but were all very sea-sick. ====== 23 Dec. 1735. Wesley. Dec. 12th. (In the forenoon we left the man-of-war, he not being able to sail as fast as our ships.--Ingham’s Journal.) ====== 25 Dec. 1735. Nitschmann. Dec. 25th. As this was Christmas Day we read Matt. 8 in our prayer service. The wind had died down, everyone felt much better, and it was a beautiful day. ====== 27 Dec. 1735. Nitschmann. Dec. 27th. At midnight there was a great storm, and the waves broke over the ship; the middle hatch was open, and the water poured in, running into our cabin, so that we had to take everything out of them until we could dry them. ====== 30 Dec. 1735. Nitschmann. Dec. 30th. The weather was again pleasant. ---- Wesley. Dec. 19th. (Messrs. Wesley and I, with Mr. Oglethorpe’s approbation, undertook to visit, each of us, a part of the ship, and daily to provide the sick people with water-gruel, and such other things as were necessary for them.--Ingham’s Journal.) ====== 1 Jan. 1736. Nitschmann. Jan. 1, 1736. It was New Year’s Day, and Mr. Oglethorpe’s birthday. (Br. Nitschmann asked us to select a number of verses, wrote them out and presented them as a birthday greeting to Mr. Oglethorpe. It was a beautiful day, warm and calm.--Dober’s Diary.) ---- Wesley. Dec. 21st, Sunday. We had fifteen communicants, which was our usual number on Sundays.