180 CAPTAIN WOKTH'S TESTIMONY. 
landing except in a small nook called Bounty 
Bay, and very frequently not even there 
indeed, never in ship's boats, from the violence 
of the surf I did not communicate with the 
shore till the next day, when, having landed 
safely all the presents I brought for the inhabi- 
tants from Valparaiso, I landed myself with half 
the officers and youngsters, the ship standing off 
and on, there being no anchorage. I made the 
officers divide the day between them, one-half on 
shore, the other on board ; so they were gratified 
with visiting these interesting people. I never 
was so gratified by such a visit, and would rather 
have gone there than to any part of the world. 
I would write you a very long letter about 
them, but time presses ; and I will only now 
say they are the most interesting, contented, 
moral, and happy people that can be conceived. 
" Their delight at our arrival was beyond 
everything. The comfort, peace, strict morality, 
industry, and excessive cleanliness and neatness 
that was apparent about everything around them, 
was really such as I was not prepared to witness. 
Their learning and attainments in general edu- 
cation and information really astonishing ; all 
dressed in English style ; the men a fine race, 
and the women and children very pretty, and 
their manner of a superior order, ever smil- 
ing and joyous ; but one mind and one wish 
seems to actuate them all. Crime appears to be 
unknown, and if there is really true happiness 
on earth, it surely is theirs. 
" The island is romantic and beautiful ; the 
soil of the richest description, yielding almost 
