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for many, very many favours. That they will 
long be gratefully remembered, admits not of a 
doubt; and that the inhabitants may continue 
to conduct themselves as becomes people so 
highly favoured, is most devoutly to be 
wished." 
The following letter from Admiral Moresby 
to the Admiralty, will further illustrate the sub- 
ject of Pitcairn, its people, and Pastor: 
"Portland, at sea, lat. 25 25' S., long. 126 29' W. 
August 12, 1852. 
" SIR, Continuing the report of my pro- 
ceedings from the 27th ult., as detailed in my 
letter No. 71, I request you will inform the 
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that 
after passing over the position assigned to 
Incarnation Island without seeing it, we made 
Pitcairn's Island on the morning of the 7th 
instant. Early on Sunday, the 8th, I landed. 
From this time to the period of our departure, 
on the llth, I remained on shore, and a constant 
intercourse was kept up with the Portland. 
" It is impossible to do justice to the spirit of 
order and decency that animates the whole com- 
munity, whose number amounts to 170, strictly 
brought up in the Protestant faith, according 
to the Established Church of England, by Mr. 
Nobbs, their pastor and surgeon, who has for 
twenty-four years zealously and successfully, 
by precept and example, raised them to a state 
of the highest moral conduct and feeling. 
" Of fruits and edible roots they have at 
