We terminated our descent at Grand Anse, and were re- 
ceived by the Rev. Mr Yandin who met us on the beach and 
kindly invited us io visit the Church establishment close by. 
The Episcopal church is a good sized structure built I believe 
by the inhabitants of the island about 20 years ago. There 
are now about 400 members, out of which over a hundred are 
communicants. The establishment is under the direction of a 
catechist, a coloured man, who receives 20 dollars amoritli from 
the Society for the propagation of the Gospel, I think they 
told me. Every two mouths the Rev. Mr Yaudiu visits the 
island to administer the sacrament, baptise or marry, as occa- 
sion requires. Round the Church is a pretty garden, and a 
cemetery lies behind it. To judge from the few grav. s, the 
death rate must be at a low figure. There is also a school 
house, but it is such a distance for little folks to walk to it 
that there are only about 20 regular attendants. The schoi 1 
mistress gets 12 dollars a month and profits of the coco g.ove 
surrounding the place. 
“ We returned to Mr Campbell’s along tho shore. In one 
of the little caves wo saw some fishermen just c^rne in from 
sea and unloadiug their boats. To my astonishment I found 
in one of their baskets three specimens of a fish 1 have been 
hunting for a year past in Mauritius, vainly. 
The Myripristea lima or every near it, a single specimen of 
which was sent over 40 years ago to Baron Cu>'ier and appears 
to be unknown since. I had a sketch of it sent by Professor 
Agassiz requesting me to procure as many as possible of it, 
aud though I have swept hundreds of fish in my net, and at- 
tended the market almost daily I have not yet met with it in 
Mauritius (l). I found a good many sea-weeds and remains 
of shells ou the shore sufficient to prove their existence in 
this locality. We again slept at Mr Campbell’s house but 
next day bade adieu to him and his hospitable family. We 
crossed the mountain and descended close to the remains of 
■what was once doubtless a fine dwelling house, but it and the 
(1) I may liere state that after all I lost my fish as the glass jar iu 
which thoy were preserved with many other valuable specimens of Na- 
tural History was smashed when my luggage was being put ou board the 
steamer, and the contents fell into the sea. 
