In Their Own Words on This Day. . . There are upwards of 300 houses, besides huts. I like the place very well and would choose to live in it sooner than any part of England. And I am sure of one, if I will. And the reason why I take it is, because I am for a retired life, and again the island is surrounded with salt water, which is much healthier than the town, and one may keep one's cattle there safe and upon the mainland one can't. . . .
Fresh provision is scarce and dear.
They live most upon salt beef and rice boiled instead of bread, though I can say I never made a meal in Savannah with bread and fresh meat, which never a passenger that came with me can say. They use me more like parents than strangers. . . . Several as young as I have servants. If a man dies, his child inherits his improvements at sixteen. . . . This county is a fine place for any sort of game.