•G CBUISE OF THE 'CdEACOA.' 



leading through a pretty country, where v/e saw herds of 

 cattle enjoying themselves ainid rich pastures. We passed 

 by Cascade Station, a village to the left, near the top of tlie 

 hill, in which we observed a number of people chiefly 

 engaged in tlie cultivation of the potato, wliicli is their 

 principal food. On our way we saw numbers of fine lemon- 

 trees loaded with fruit, Avliich are cultivated in preference 

 to orange-trees that are said to fruit less well and less 

 easily. As we proceeded we came upon the Eev. Mr. 

 Nobbs, the Church of England clergyman of the settlement, 

 in company of the Bishop of Melanesia (Patteson), who 

 had arrived the evening before by the mission schooner 

 ' Southern Cross,' which was standing off and on the coast, 

 waiting for orders to make for the Loyalty Islands, which 

 the Bishop was about to visit on behalf of the Cliurch of 

 England mission. Mr. Ilood,^ in liis 'Cruise of the '•Fawn,'" 

 has a notice of the Eev. Mr. Nobbs, from which it appears 

 that he has had a most chequered career, and that there is 

 a strange contrast between his earlier and later occupations. 

 He began life as a midshi[)man in the Eoyal Navy, and 

 commanded one of the boats under Lord Dundonald in the 

 brilliant cutting-out affiiir in the Basque Eoads. Subse- 

 quently he went to Chili, where he was made prisoner and 

 sentenced to death ; escaping that, he was forced to labour 

 in irons on the roads ; and, after various other adventures, 

 made his way with a single comjianion in a little craft of 



' 'Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S. " Fawu " in the Western Pacific in 

 1862,' by T. H. Hood, p. 230. 



