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twenty tons to Pitcairu Island. After some residence there 

 he was driven away by an impostor, who pretended to be 

 an agent of the British Government ; but, the fraud being 

 discovered, he returned to tlie island. He subsequently 

 went to England and was ordained, after which he returned 

 to his old friends, and accompanied them when transferred 

 to Norfolk Island. He left upon me the impression of an 

 amiable man. 



After crossing something like a public garden, no longer 

 used, we descended as far as the house of the former 

 governor of the island, consisting of a single story, a sort 

 of stone bungalow, furnished with a good verandah, and in 

 front of it a flag-staff from which floated the Union Jack. 

 It is here Mr. Eossiter resides as agent of the Queen's re- 

 presentative, now his Excellency Sir John Young. There 

 are other houses in the neighbourhood of similar con- 

 struction, but less roomy, which are occupied by persons 

 privileged to live in them rent free. 



The old convict prison, capable of holding 1,700 prisoners, 

 is a large four-storied building, surrounded by high walls, 

 as is the case with the commissariat, and the two barracks 

 in its vicinity. The prisoners, who were all males, and 

 transported for life, slept in hammocks slung so as to occupy 

 the least possible space. At the sides of the great prison 

 were much smaller buildings containing cells for the con- 

 finement of such as were sentenced to death, and dungeons 

 in which no light apparently could enter. The buildings 

 for the warders, superintendents, and those which served as 



