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was made along the rocks. This also proving 
unsuccessful, some of the men went in their 
canoes to search for him outside of the rocks. 
A few minutes after the canoes were launched, 
his hat was found some thirty or forty yards 
from the rocks. Being convinced from this that 
the man was drowned, the search was continued 
with renewed vigour, and, about an hour after, 
his body was seen lying at the bottom, in about 
seven fathoms of water, and about twenty yards 
from where he was washed off. The men suc- 
ceeded in recovering the body, which was in- 
terred the same evening. It is but justice to 
the memory of this poor man to add, that his 
good and quiet behaviour while among us had 
gained for him the esteem and good-will of all 
upon the island, and that his untimely end is 
deeply regretted by the whole community. 
" 29th. At break of day a ship was reported 
close in with the shore ; all who had turned out of 
their beds hastened to the edge of the precipice 
to ascertain the truth of the statement. Scarcely 
had they done so, when, from the heraldic bear- 
ing of her colours, she was by the teacher pro- 
nounced to be a man-of-war. The whale-boat 
was immediately manned, and in the course of 
a few hours she returned to shore, bringing with 
them Captain Wellesley, and others of the officers 
of H.M. ship Dtedalus, from the Sandwich 
Islands, via Tahiti, bound to Valparaiso. Cap- 
tain Wellesley and his officers remained on 
shore all night, and returned on board the fol- 
lowing morning, when a fresh party landed from 
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