186 LETTER FROM GEORGE ADAMS. 
and the rest of our friends are getting on well, 
as we are. I return you thanks for your kind 
letter, which I have received from H.M.S. 
Calypso ; also the present which is sent by you 
and the rest of the kind gentlemen at Valparaiso. 
We have received from you all such things as 
are very valuable to us, spades, saws, pots, 
and other articles. We have received them all 
with the greatest pleasure, and I return you all 
a thousand thanks for them. The presents 
are divided equally amongst us all, from the 
oldest woman to the youngest child. 
" Kind friend, this is the first opportunity I 
have had to write to you. I will thank you 
very much if you will take this fund of money 
which you will see in this paper, and buy me 
a few fish-hooks of the size you will see in the 
paper ; and also for my family's use six copies 
of Watts's Hymn-books, and one Family 
Bible. Friend, I bid you farewell. Perhaps it 
may not be our chance to meet in this world, but 
I hope we may in a better world, where saints 
and angels meet; and if it be our good luck 
to meet there, there we shall meet to part no 
more. I am obliged to close my letter in great 
haste. 
" I remain, your sincere friend and well-wisher, 
" GEORGE ADAMS, 
" Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn's Island." 
Besides these letters, the author has some neat 
" copies," in a small round hand, signed respec- 
tively by Albina M'Coy, Reuben Elias Nobbs, 
Miriam Christian, Eobert Buffett, Jemima Young, 
