[Footnote 1:  Moore, p. 12.]

The Journal of Wesley gives many details of the voyage; but, as they relate principally to the manner in which he and his brother and two friends spent their time, I pass them over, but quote the following anecdote from one of his biographers.[1] “Mr. Wesley hearing an unusual noise in the cabin of General Oglethorpe, stepped in to inquire the cause of it.  On which the General thus addressed him:  ’Mr. Wesley you must excuse me.  I have met with a provocation too much for a man to bear.  You know that the only wine I drink is Cyprus wine, as it agrees with me the best of any.  I therefore provided myself with several dozens of it, and this villain Grimaldi’ (his foreign servant, who stood trembling with fear,) ’has drunk up the whole of it.  But I will be revenged on him.  I have ordered him to be tied hand and foot, and carried to the man of war that sails with us.  The rascal should have taken care not to have served me so, for I never forgive.’—­’Then I hope, sir,’ (said Wesley, looking calmly at him) ‘you never sin.’  The General was confounded at the reproof; and, putting his hand into his pocket, took out a bunch of keys, which he threw at Grimaldi, saying, ‘There, take my keys, and behave better for the future!’”

[Footnote 1:  Rev. HENRY MOORE, Vol.  II. p. 258.]

While this was a happy verification of the remark of the wise man, that “a soft answer turneth away wrath,” it is a pleasing indication of the yielding placability of him to whom it was addressed.—­“The discretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.”

The ships, which bore this large accession to the Colony, passed the bar of the Tybee on the afternoon of Thursday, February 5th, 1736, and came to anchor.  This island is at the mouth of the Savannah river; is five miles long, and three broad; and is the most easterly land in the State.  Oglethorpe went immediately on shore, to see what had been done towards raising the beacon on the island, for the construction of which he had given orders.  “It was to be an octagon building of squared timber; its dimensions twenty-five feet wide at the bottom, and ten at the top; and its height ninety feet, with a flag-staff on the top thirty feet high.  When completed, it would be of great service to all shipping, not only the vessels bound to this port, but also to Carolina; for the land of the coast, for some hundred miles, is so alike, being low and woody, that a distinguishing mark is of great consequence."[1]

[Footnote 1:  MOORE’s Voyage, p. 18.]