378 COST OF REMOVAL. 
In relating the chief particulars of one of the 
most extraordinary cases of emigration on record, 
the author has thought it best to quote the very 
words of those who have taken leading parts 
in the events described. The opportunity of 
reference to these documents may one day prove 
of greater value than is at present apparent. 
The following is an estimate of the amount 
required to defray the expense of the removal 
from Pitcairn to Norfolk Island ; — 
Freight and provisions to Norfolk Island. . . £4,480 
-Stores for use of the settlers on their first arrival 900 
Contingencies ...... .. , , „ . . 200 
£5,580 
The Hob-art Town Daily Advertiser, of July 
28, 1856, contained the following notices — 
" The Morayshire, Captain Mathers, left Sydney 
on the 23d of last February, for the purpose of 
proceeding to Pitcairn's Island, to remove the 
interesting community of that place to Norfolk 
Island. Captain Mathers reached Pitcairn's 
Island on the 22d of April, and sailed thence 
for Norfolk Island on the 3d of May, having 
taken on board, in the mean time, the whole 
population of the island, consisting of 194 souls, 
viz. 40 adult males, 47 adult females, 54 boys, 
and 53 girls, together with the whole of their 
goods and chattels. The vessel arrived with 
her interesting freight at Norfolk Island on the 
8th of June, all well. On the voyage from 
Pitcairn's to Norfolk Island there was one birth, 
a boy, who was named Reuben Denison, after 
