LETTER OF ADMIRAL MORESBY. 199 
" I forward a continuation of their journal 
since that published by Mr. Brodie a very 
correct statement, which renders unnecessary 
any further remarks. 
" I have, &c. 
" FAIRFAX MORESBY, 
" Rear- Admiral, and Commander-in-Chief." 
The Admiral also wrote thus from The Port- 
land, at sea, August, 1852: 
" Of all the eventful periods which have 
chequered my life, none have surpassed in 
interest, and I trust in hope of future good, the 
last, our visit to Pitcairn ; and surely the hand 
of God has been in all this ; for by chances the 
most unexpected, and by favourable winds out 
of the usual course of the trades, we were 
carried in eleven days to Pitcairn's from Boro- 
bora. It is impossible to describe the charm 
that the society of the islanders throws around 
them under the providence of God. The hour 
and the occasion served, and I have brought 
away their pastor and teacher for the purpose 
of sending him to England to be ordained, and 
one of his daughters, who will be placed at the 
English clergyman's at Valparaiso, until her 
father's return. The islanders depend prin- 
cipally for their necessary supplies on the 
whaling-ships, which are generally American. 
Greatly to their credit, the men behave in the 
most exemplary manner, very differently from 
what I expected. One rough seaman, whom I 
spoke to in praise of such conduct, said, i Sir, 
