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prevented him from carrying into effect. He 
wrote to the Kev, B, Hill, late chaplain at Val- 
paraiso, from Lima, to inform him, that it had 
been his wish and intention to call at Valparaiso, 
in the hope that he might be serviceable to the 
junior members of the Episcopal Chtirch there, 
by conferring on them the rite of Confirmation ; 
that he had waited for some time, in the expec- 
tation of obtaining a passage to that port, but 
had at length, from want of a ship, been obliged 
to abandon his intention. 
Mr. Nobbs, though a well-tried traveller, 
and equal to the endurance of much hardship, 
experienced a full share of the trouble and 
annoyance for which the journey over the 
Isthmus of Panama was then proverbial. He 
had purposely avoided taking much luggage. 
Not only, however, was the charge for convey- 
ance exorbitant ; but, with all his care, he, for 
some time, lost sight of a trunk, containing, 
among other articles of importance, a beautiful 
set of silver communion plate, which had been 
entrusted to his care by a friend at Fulham, for 
use in the church at Pitcairn. This painful 
event, added to the ill effect of the climate, 
brought on an attack of fever, the symptoms 
of which were serious after his leaving Panama. 
By God's blessing, this sickness passed away. 
The reappearance of the goods, which were, 
through the active zeal of Mr. Perry, the British 
Consul at Panama, restored to Mr. Nobbs's 
hands, appears to have tended to his recovery. 
Two dreadful events, occurring hi the year 
1856, on the Isthmus of Panama, have added 
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