EEV. w. AEMSTEONG'S TESTIMONY. 189 
respecting the islanders, reported, that they 
continued to receive much benefit from the 
services of Mr. Nobbs, " as their religious 
teacher, their schoolmaster, and their doctor." 
During an epidemic which prevailed in 1848, 
the attacks of which not more than twenty 
out of one hundred and fifty, escaped, Mr. 
Nobbs attended them from house to house, 
day and night, for a period of two months, 
with great success; only one, (an infant,) 
having died. It appeared that, on his pro- 
posing to accept a free passage to Valparaiso, 
that he might accompany thither his eldest 
son, Reuben, a great-grandson, on his mo- 
ther's side, of Fletcher Christian, and then 
return to his people, the whole of his adopted 
countrymen came and begged that it might 
not be so, as they could not bear to part 
with him. This appeal prevailed; and, on 
Reuben's quitting the island for Valparaiso, 
to settle in the world, his father gave the 
whole of the money he possessed, amounting 
to eight dollars, to his son. All the families 
joined in fitting him out to the best of 
their power, furnishing him with a supply of 
clothes, and making up altogether a purse 
