130 DOMESTIC CHARACTER. 
animated every countenance, and the inno- 
cence and simplicity of the little children, 
prevented the attendance from becoming 
wearisome. In about half an hour after- 
wards we again assembled to prayers. They 
may be said to have church five times on a 
Sunday. 
"All that remains to be said of these 
excellent people is, that they appear to live 
together in perfect harmony and content- 
ment ; to be virtuous, religious, cheerful and 
hospitable beyond the limits of prudence ; to 
be patterns of conjugal and parental affection, 
and to have very few vices. We remained 
with them many days, and their unreserved 
manners gave us the fullest opportunity of 
becoming acquainted with any faults they 
might have possessed." * 
In the year 1830, the Hon. W. Walde- 
grave, Captain of H. M. S. Seringapatam, 
touched at Pitcairn's Island. The following 
extracts from a letter of this officer, now Earl 
Waldegrave, will show that the moral and 
* Captain F. W. Beechey's " Narrative of a Voyage to 
the Pacific and Behring's Straits;" a work of much 
interest. 
