THE KING OF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA. 395 



Thomas Currie has fifteen or twenty acres of ground 

 cultivated, sown with vegetables, which were thriving 

 very well, and three huts thatched with reed. 



The other person on the island (a lad whom he 

 called his apprentice) came from an English ship, 

 having agreed to serve two years for wages : is a 

 native of Minorca. 



The stock on the island belonging to Thomas 

 Currie consisted of 



Forty breeding sows, ) 



, J , !- of the wild breed. 



Iwo boars, ) 



No fowls or ducks left ; the last taken away by the 

 American privateers. 



He stated that, in the mountains, there were many 

 wild pigs and goats. 



The following is the document left by Jonathan 

 Lambert on the island, by which he constituted him- 

 self sole monarch of this group of islands : 



"Know all men by these presents that I, Jonathan 

 Lambert, late of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts, 

 United States of America, and citizen thereof, have 

 this 4th day of February, in the year of our Lord 

 1811, taken absolute possession of the island of 

 Tristan d'Acunha, so called viz., the great island, 

 and the other two, known by the names of Inacces- 

 sible and Nightingale islands, solely for myself and 

 my heirs for ever, with the right of conveying the 

 whole, or any part thereof, to one or more persons, 



