PUBLIC REGISTER, 1847 — 1849. 267 
island, and noting down such things as the 
community were most in want of, at sunset the 
Spy sailed for Valparaiso. Mr. and Mrs. Nobbs 
here take the opportunity of publicly recording 
their grateful acknowledgments to Captain 
Wooldridge and Dr. Bowden for the favours 
conferred on their son. 
" June 4th. — Experienced a heavy gale from 
the westward, which, if it had been of long 
duration, would have done incalculable damage. 
A large piece of the banyan-tree was blown 
down, and the flagstafT broken in two pieces. 
" 1848, March 9th.— Arrived H. M. S. Calypso, 
Captain H. Worth. 
"10^. —At 9 A.M. Captain Worth, and a 
party of officers, landed; and the greeting on 
both sides was most cordial. Our people, men, 
women, and children, are almost beside them- 
selves." 
Many valuable and useful presents were 
brought to the island. The next day the ship 
was discovered four miles from the land. Cap- 
tain Worth, Dr. Domet, and others, again 
landed. The Doctor, wishing to inspect the 
hieroglyphics carved by the aborigines, went 
down the face of the cliff without the assistance 
of a rope — a most hazardous feat. It is stated 
that he was the first European who had per- 
formed it. 
" At sunset the Calypso sailed, carrying with 
her our grateful aspirations, &c. 
" 1849, July 10th." — A very animated de- 
scription is given, under this date, of the arrival 
of " the Pandora, Captain Wood, from Oahu 
