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vidence, may prove the salvation (body and soul) of 
hundreds. Several instructed there are already earning 
comfortable livelihoods in various parts of the Colony, 
and numbers have feelingly acknowledged to Captain 
Booth the blessing they thence derived. How many of 
England’s poor but virtuous children would be overjoyed 
with the full provisions, excellent lodging,and comfortable 
clothing—not to say a word on the beneficial instruction 
—of Point Puer! 
On our return to the Settlement, we landed at a small 
island named, from its funeral purposes. Isle des Morts , 
or Dead Men’s Isle. Within its sea-girt shores, almost 
its first occupant, lies Dennis Collins, the sailor who 
threw a stone at William the Fourth on one of the 
English race-courses. Here likewise repose the ashes 
of May, the barker of the Italian boy. Here, more¬ 
over, are monuments to several free persons who have 
died during service at Port Arthur, or perished in its 
vicinity: of the latter are three seamen wrecked in the 
schooner Echo, two seamen of Government vessels, 
and several soldiers of the 21st, 61st, and 63rd regiments. 
Over the remains of Robert Young, a soldier of the 51st, 
accidentally drowmed, his sorrowing comrades have 
reared the recording stone, on which a poetic private 
has written the following :— 
His melancholy fate doth plainly prove 
The frail uncertainty of human life: 
Oh ! may his soul attain that blest abode. 
Which knows no human misery or strife. 
Michael Gibbons, a private of the 21st, who lost his 
wife shortly after child-birth, and who was left with two 
infant children, in his own verse thus weeps his sad 
bereavement:— 
When worth and truth like her descend to dust, 
Grief is adopt, and sorrow is most just; 
