PITCAIKN FUND COMMITTEE. 215 
supply of such things as were deemed requisite 
for the inhabitants. Labourers' and carpenters' 
tools, a proper bell for the Church, medicines, 
a few clocks, clothing of various sorts, simple 
articles of furniture, cooking utensils, &c., were 
needed. Mr. Nobbs having been requested by 
the Committee of the fund to furnish a list of 
articles wanted, a statement was supplied by 
him accordingly ; and the authorities at the 
Admiralty, in the most kind and considerate 
manner, assigned for the use of the islanders 
such of the articles in his list as were among 
those stores of the victualling department which 
were not required for their original purpose. 
The aid thus furnished by the Admiralty proved 
most important ; a considerable portion of the 
requisite goods having been supplied from that 
source. The rest were purchased from the fund, 
raised by means of liberal contributions, and 
were despatched in June 1853, freight-free, in 
the government store-ship, the Narwhal, to Val- 
paraiso, for transmission to Pitcairn's Island. 
The Society for Promoting Christian Knoiv- 
ledge, at the General Meeting held on the 7th of 
December, 1852, at which Mr. Nobbs was pre- 
sent, unanimously granted One Hundred Pounds 
towards this fund. 
Admiral Moresby generously added to his 
former benefactions One Hundred Pounds. 
The exertions made in this good cause 
have proved successful. Not only have all 
the needful articles been purchased, and paid 
for, from the means cheerfully subscribed ; but 
the sum of Five Hundred Pounds has been 
