190 CAPTAIN WORTH'S TESTIMONY. 
of more thaii forty dollars ; several contri- 
buting every cent they had. 
Mr. Nobbs received, with much delight, 
by Commander Dillon, of the Cockatrice 
schooner, in 1851, several gratifying letters 
from Mr. Armstrong, and Reuben. This 
young man, who was twenty-two years of 
age in September 1852, has acquired an ex- 
cellent character, and earned the confidence 
of his employers, merchants at Valparaiso ; 
but he is about to return to the island, in 
compliance with the wish of his mother, who 
has been very unhappy in consequence of 
his absence. He will therefore be conveyed 
in the Portland from Valparaiso to Pitcairn ; 
and from the piety of his character, and 
general intelligence, there is good reason to 
hope that he will prove a valuable help to his 
father, and a blessing to his fellow-islanders. 
The late excellent Captain Worth, of her 
Majesty's ship Calypso, who visited the 
island in 1848, afforded the following testi- 
mony to the amiable character and the happy 
state of the Pitcairn islanders : 
" We arrived here on the 9th March, 
(1848,) from Callao, but the weather being 
