CHAPTER VII. 
MB. NOBBS SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE HIS ESCAPE FROM 
THE HANDS OF THE PIRATICAL SOLDIER, BENEVIDEIS HIS 
ARRIVAL AT PITCAIRN MR. HILL EXTRACTS FROM HIS 
LETTER TESTIMONIES TO THE CHARACTER AND SERVICES 
OF MR. NOBBS PROGRESS OF RELIGION IN PITCAIRN'S 
ISLAND REUBEN NOBBS TESTIMONIES FROM THE REV. 
WM. ARMSTRONG AND CAPTAIN WORTH LETTERS FROM THE 
ISLANDERS STATE OF THE SCHOOL. 
THE arrival of Mr. George Hunn Nobbs at 
Pitcairn's Island, in the year 1828, may be 
considered a providential occurrence for the 
well-being of the inhabitants. The success of 
thirty-two years' labour is an abundant proof 
of Mr. Nobbs's fitness for his office. Under the 
blessing of God, this faithful teacher has edu- 
cated in the true religion, and in the principles 
of our Church, as one united family, a com- 
munity, pre-eminent for their simple and virtu- 
ous lives. A brief notice of his career, and of 
the circumstances which led him to Pitcairn's 
Island, cannot fail to be interesting to the 
reader. 
Mr. Nobbs was born in Ireland, in 1799. He 
was in his youth a midshipman in the British 
navy, having first gone to sea when not much 
more than eleven years of age. He had been 
entered in 1811 on the books of H.M.S. 
