On board the Anne, beside the crew and master, are Oglethorpe himself and more than a hundred and twenty Georgia settlers, men, women, and children.

The Anne shook forth her sails in mid-November, 1732, upon the old West Indies sea road, and after two months of prosperous faring, came to anchor in Charles Town harbor.
South Carolina, approving this Georgia settlement which was to open the country southward and be a wall against Spain, received the colonists with hospitality.

Oglethorpe and the weary colonists rested from long travel, then hoisted sail again and proceeded on their way to Port Royal, and southward yet to the mouth of the Savannah.

Here there was further tarrying while Oglethorpe and picked men went in a small boat up the river to choose the site where they should build their town.
Here, upon the lower reaches, there lay a fair plateau, a mile long, rising forty feet above the stream.

Near by stood a village of well-inclined Indians--the Yamacraws.