PUBLIC KEGISTER, 1790 93. 259 
and will probably be of great value hereafter, 
as a record of names and events connected with 
that little world. 
The author has lately had the pleasure of 
receiving, as a present from the islanders, the 
original folio manuscript volume of the Register. 
A memorandum, inserted between the end of 
the Journal and the beginning of the Shipping 
List, is in the handwriting of the Rev. G. H. 
Nobbs, and states that the book had suffered 
so much from getting wet with salt water, when 
taken on board the Virago, early in 1853, during 
his absence, that it had become necessary " to 
prepare a new book, by copying the contents of 
this into it, and then continue from this date. It 
is my intention," he adds, " to send this to my 
well-beloved friend, the Rev. T. B. Murray. 1 ' 
Accompanying the book were the following 
articles: A desk made by the islanders from 
the bread- fruit -tree and miro wood ; a large 
sheet of tappa cloth ; a thick pane of glass, 
Which was the window of Bligh's cabin in the 
Bounty, and afterwards the window of Mr, 
Nobbs's house at Pitcairn; and some nails manu- 
factured from the copper bolts of the Bounty by 
Isaac Martin, one of the mutineers. 
The first entry in the manuscript occurs 
January 23d, 1790. " H.M.S. Bounty burned. 
" Fasto, wife of John Williams, died. Thurs- > 
day October Christian born." 
| The annals of 1793 are of a melancholy kind/ 
recounting the massacre of Fletcher Christian, 
John Mills, William Brown, John_ Williams, ' 
