174 LETTER OF MR. JOSHUA HILL. 
Certain misrepresentations concerning Mr. 
Nobbs, which are alluded to by Admiral 
Moresby, in his letter contained in the Pre- 
face, took their rise at about this time. 
It is fortunate for any one who may have 
been misrepresented by Mr. Hill, that he 
wrote in June 1834 a long letter, full of himself 
and his own praises, which has been pub- 
lished,* and which sufficiently shows into 
what sort of hands the islanders of Pitcairn 
had fallen during the time of Hill's influence. 
The author cannot refrain from quoting a 
passage, as a specimen of this epistle : 
" I have visited the Falls of Niagara and 
Montmorency, the natural bridge in Virginia, 
the great Keciprocating Fountain in East 
Tennessee, the great Temple of Elephanta at 
Bombay. I have dined with a prince, as 
well as with a princess ; and with a count, a 
baron, an ambassador, a minister (ordinary 
and extraordinary,) and have travelled with 
one for some weeks. I have dined with a 
Char g I d 1 Affaires, and lived with consuls, 
&c. I have visited and conversed with ' Red 
Jacket, 1 the great Indian warrior : I have 
* Brodie, p. 211, ed. 1851. 
