212 LETTER OF ADMIRAL MORESBY. 
" Early on Sunday, the 8th, I landed. 
From this time to the period of our depar- 
ture, on the llth, I remained on shore, and 
a constant intercourse was kept up with the 
Portland. 
" It is impossible to do justice to the spirit 
of order and decency that animates the whole 
community, whose number amounts to 170, 
strictly brought up in the Protestant faith, 
according to the Established Church of Eng- 
land, by Mr. Nobbs, their pastor and surgeon, 
who has for twenty-four years zealously and 
successfully, by precept and example, raised 
them to a state of the highest moral conduct 
and feeling. 
" Of fruits and edible roots they have at 
present abundance, which they exchange with 
the whalers for clothing, oil, medicine, and 
other necessaries ; but the crops on the 
tillage ground begin to deteriorate, landslips 
occur with each succeeding storm, and the 
declivities of the hills, when denuded, are laid 
bare by the periodical rains. Their diet 
consists of yams, sweet potatoes, and bread- 
fruit ; a small quantity of fish is occasionally 
caught ; their pigs supply annually upon an 
