412 CENSUS OP THE COMMUNITY. 
community is 221 : 112 males, and 109 females. 
This is exclusive of the sixteen returned to 
Pitcairn's, and the families recently arrived, now 
numbering ten persons. Communicants, ninety- 
seven. Children in the public school, sixty- 
three, all of whom attend the Sunday-school, 
which is composed of eight classes. The teachers 
are Thomas Kossiter, Jemima Young, Jane 
Nobbs, Francis Nobbs, Johnstone Nobbs, 
Edwin Nobbs, Macey Quintal, and myself. I 
take the younger ones, and as soon as they are 
organized, appoint a permanent teacher for them, 
and then collect another class from the literally 
* little ones.' Not being able to attend every 
Sunday as I have frequently patients to visit 
after the public services are concluded, my 
absence is not so much felt by a young class as 
it would be by those more advanced : besides, I 
am frequently a visitor to all the classes." 
The captain of a vessel which called at 
Norfolk Island as lately as September, 1859, 
has thus described his visit, in the Hobart Town 
Daily Mercury, December 12th, 1859 : — 
" In the month of September, 1859, I visited 
Norfolk Island (the present home of the Pitcairn 
Islanders), to recruit my vessel. It was their 
Sabbath, and I well knew that they would 
transact no business on that day. I went on 
shore, however, in the morning. On approach- 
ing the beach, I found several of my former 
acquaintances assembled to give me a hearty 
welcome. No sooner did the boat touch the 
ground, than she was carried clear of danger by 
