192 THE PASTOR'S ELDEST SON. 
had been very unhappy in consequence of. his 
absence ; and thither he accordingly went in the 
spring of 1853. He afterwards took the op- 
portunity of returning with Captain Morshead, 
in the Dido, to Valparaiso, where he resumed 
the duties of a responsible mercantile situa- 
tion. But his friends having heard with deep 
regret, that his health had been much impaired, 
it was found necessary to remove him once more 
from Valparaiso to his native island. He was 
afflicted with lameness, in consequence of an 
accident from a gun. To this, as well as to his 
illness and death, allusion will be made in the 
progress of this work. 
The late excellent Captain Worth, of H.M.S. 
Calypso, who visited the island in 1848, afforded 
the following testimony to the amiable character 
and the happy state of the Pitcairn islanders : 
" We arrived here on the 9th March (1848) 
from Callao, but the weather being very bad, 
stormy and squally, as you know there is no 
landing except in a small nook called Bounty 
Bay, and very frequently not even there 
indeed, never in ship's boats, from the violence 
of the surf I did not communicate with the 
shore till the next day, when, having landed 
safely all the presents I brought for the inhabi- 
tants from Valparaiso, I landed myself with half 
the officers and youngsters, the ship standing off 
and on, there being no anchorage. I made the 
officers divide the day between them, one-half on 
shore, the other on board ; so they were gratified 
with visiting these interesting people. I never 
was so gratified by such a visit, and would rather 
