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island, lying in caves. They were doubtless 
the remains of some unfortunate shipwrecked 
seamen, as several pieces of a wreck were found 
upon the shore. 
" 27th. — Sarah Adams died from a disease of 
the spine, aged fifty-five years. 
" Dec. 13th. — Philip M' Coy and Sarah Quintal, 
Benjamin Buffett and Eliza Quintal, married. 
" 1852, Jan. 2d. — Abraham B. Quintal elected 
chief magistrate ; Frederick Young and David 
Buffett, councillors. 
M 7 th. — At about 1 p. M. intelligence was 
brought to the village that Bobert (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, 'm 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 renewed 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 suc- 
ceeded in recovering the body, which was in- 
terred the same evening. It is but justice to 
the memory of this poor man to add, that his 
