LETTER FROM REUBEN. 283 
in Valparaiso for a few years, the former having 
"been for nearly four years a resident there. 7 ' 
The last paragraph in the portion extracted 
from the Island Register, records the inten- 
tion of the two Pitcairn brothers, Reuben 
and Francis Nobbs, to settle in Valparaiso for 
a few years. Mention has already been made 
of the elder of the two brothers, and it will have 
been seen that, after reaching Valparaiso, where 
he was engaged in some mercantile business 
at Mr. Miller's, Reuben's health had failed. 
Francis was employed in studies such as might 
tend to fit him for greater usefulness among 
his fellow islanders ; but he was at once called 
away from these pursuits, to attend and nurse 
his poor brother. Subsequently, Admiral 
Moresby received from Reuben a letter, giving 
an account of his illness, and breathing a spirit 
of entire resignation to the will of his heavenly 
Father. The hand which inscribed the follow- 
ing lines is now cold and motionless in death ; 
but who that reads them will not be cheered and 
edified by the tone of faith and hope which 
pervades the letter ? 
Dr. Ancrum, a physician at Valparaiso, and 
Mrs. Ancrum, who are here alluded to, proved 
kind and true friends to the two brothers* ' 
To Rear-Admiral Fairfax Moresby, G.B. 
t( Valparaiso, April 14, 1854. 
" Dear Admiral, — Although scarcely able, 
through weakness and a troublesome_cough, to 
