200 LETTER OF THE ADMIRAL'S SECRETARY. 
I expect if one of our fellows was to misbehave 
himself here, we should not leave him alive.' 
They are guileless and unsophisticated beyond 
description. The time had arrived when pre- 
paration for partial removal was necessary, and 
especially for the ordination of their pastor, or 
the appointment of a Clergyman of the Esta- 
blished Church. 
" They are thoroughly versed in Bible his- 
tory, which has hitherto kept them from listening 
to the advances of some over-heated imaginations. 
I stayed for days upon that speck in the ocean, 
but rising like a paradise from its bosom. I 
believe there was scarcely a dry eye in the ship 
when the islanders took their leave. We ran 
within hail of the settlement, hoisted the royal 
standard, fired a salute, and cheered them." 
Extract of a Letter from the Admiral's 
Secretary. 
" At 6. 30, A.M. of the 9th, as we were dancing 
along about eight knots an hour before a fresh 
breeze, we discovered a thin blue shadow, whose 
outline appeared to be too well defined to be a 
cloud : at 9 we were certain that we saw Pitcairn's 
Island. Having read so much about the mutiny 
of the Bounty, and the subsequent romantic his- 
tory of the mutineers, which has resulted in the 
formation of a colony celebrated for their virtue, 
and simplicity, and religion, I experienced a 
feeling of something (I know not what to call 
it) on approaching the island, that I have felt 
when visiting some spot held sacred either from 
