CAPTAIN WORTH'S TESTIMONY. 191 
very bad, stormy and squally, as you know 
there is no landing except in a small nook 
called Bounty Bay, and very frequently not 
even there indeed, never in ship's boats, 
from the violence of the surf I did not 
communicate with the shore till the next day, 
when, having landed safely all the presents 
I brought for the inhabitants from Valparaiso, 
I landed myself with half the officers and 
youngsters, the ship standing off and on, 
there being no anchorage. I made the 
officers divide the day between them, one 
half on shore, the other on board ; so they 
were gratified with visiting these interesting 
people. I never was so gratified by such a 
visit, and would rather have gone there than 
to any part of the world. I would write you 
a very long letter about them, but time 
presses ; and I will only now say they are 
the most interesting, contented, moral, and 
happy people that can be conceived. 
" Their delight at our arrival was beyond 
anything ; the comfort, peace, strict morality, 
industry, and excessive cleanliness and neat- 
ness that was apparent about everything 
around them, was really such as I was not 
