LETTER FROM ADMIRAL MORESBY. 231 
little I took for them ; some immediately made 
a large kettle full, and said they felt better. 
Mr. Nobbs, Reuben, and Jane were nearly the 
only ones entirely free from sickness ; showing 
that the strong food they had been living on 
was their medicine ; for the poor Islanders, 
famine-struck and weak, had no strength left to 
resist the disease. At 4 P.M. on Sunday, we 
were compelled to leave them once more ; and 
so all our distress came over again, because we 
left them all ill, and were anxious for their 
future state. 
" Now we are fairly off, I suppose. Never more 
shall I see Pitcairn ; but if I never see it again, 
I can never forget it. To me it will ever be the 
gem of all the places I have ever seen, or shall 
see, in the varied roamings of a sailor's life." 
Thus vividly, with a rapid pen, did the youth- 
ful sailor, the Admiral's youngest son, describe 
the events in which he had borne a part in an 
interesting period of his life. Afterwards, in 
another clime, and amidst other scenes and 
duties, his thoughts often recurred to Pitcairn ; 
but he little imagined that it would be his 
happy privilege to see the same friends again, 
though on a totally different spot. 
I Admiral Moresby, in a letter of the same 
date, on his passage in the Portland, from Pit-, 
cairn to Lima, wrote as follows : 
" Our voyage to Pitcairn was long thirty 
days ; but with Mr. Nobbs, Reuben, and Jane 
on board, we had a pleasant time. Sad wasjhe 
