216 LETTER OF ADMIEAL MORESBY. 
able winds out of the usual course of the 
trades, we were carried in eleven days to 
Pitcairn's from Borobora. It is impossible 
to describe the charm that the society of the 
islanders throws around them under the pro- 
vidence of God. The hour and the occasion 
served, and I have brought away their pastor 
and teacher for the purpose of sending him 
to England to be ordained, and one of his 
daughters, who will be placed at the English 
clergyman's at Valparaiso, until her father's 
return. The islanders depend principally for 
their necessary supplies on the whaling ships, 
which are generally American. Greatly to 
their credit, the men behave in the most ex- 
emplary manner, very differently from what I 
expected. One rough seaman, whom I spoke 
to in praise of such conduct, said, ' Sir, I 
expect, if one of our fellows was to misbehave 
himself here, we should not leave him alive.' 
They are guileless and unsophisticated be- 
yond description. The time had arrived 
when preparation for partial removal was 
necessary, and especially for the ordination of 
their pastor, or the appointment of a Clergy- 
man of the Established Church. 
