PUBLIC EEG1STEE. 267 
" 1852, Jan. 2d. Abraham B. Quintal 
elected chief magistrate; Frederick Young 
and David BufFett councillors. 
" 7th. At about 1 P.M. intelligence was 
brought to the village that Kobert (a native 
of one of the Society Islands, and who was 
left here sick from the American whale-ship 
Balcena) was washed from off the rocks by 
the surf; those who were at hand when the 
news was told, immediately hastened to the 
place to learn the truth of the statement. 
Upon arriving there, and not seeing anything 
of him, search was made along the rocks. 
This also proving unsuccessful, some of the 
men went in their canoes to search for him 
outside of the rocks. A few minutes after the 
canoes were launched, his hat was found some 
thirty or forty yards from the rocks. Being 
convinced from this that the man was 
drowned, the search was continued with re- 
newed vigour, and, about an hour after, his 
body was seen lying at the bottom, in about 
seven fathoms of water, and about twenty 
yards from where he was washed off. The 
men succeeded in recovering the body, which 
was interred the same evening. It is but 
