G CBUISE OF TEE 'CUBACJOA.' 



leading through a pretty country, where vre saw herds of 

 cattle enjoying themselves amid rich pastures. We passed 

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

 hill, in which we observed a number of people chiefly 

 engaired in the cultivation of the potato, which is their 

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

 trees loaded with fruit, which are cultivated in preference 

 to orange-trees that ai-e said to fruit less well and less 

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

 Nobbs, the Church of England clergyman of tlie 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 Church of 

 England mission. Mr. Hood,^ in his '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 midshipman in the Eoyal Xavy, and 

 commanded one of the boats under Lord Dundonald in the 

 brilliant cutting-out affair 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 companion in a little craft of 



1 'Notes of a Ci-uise iu H.M.S. " Fawn " in the Western Pacific in 

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



