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and earnest wish of the community at Pitcairn's 
Island. 
" 31st. Elizabeth Holman Adams born. 
"June 20th. Thomas Buffett and Louisa 
Quintal, and Fletcher Nobbs and Susan Quintal, 
married. 
" 28th. John Moresby Acland Quintal born. 
" Aug. 9th. William Henry Holman Chris- 
tian born. 
" 13th. Rosalina Amelia Young born. 
" October 5th. Ernest Hey wood Christian 
born. 
" September 19th. Sarah M'Coy had a severe 
fall, by which she broke her collar-bone and 
fractured her jaw, 
" 21st. Sarah M'Coy suffering much pain. 
" October 5th. Sarah M'Coy almost quite 
recovered. 
" 16th. George Henry Parkin Christian born. 
" November 2d. About 4 P.M. a sail, which 
was immediately pronounced to be a man-of- 
war, was seen coming from the eastward. The 
whaleboat was immediately manned ; and after 
a few minutes' hard rowing, some of the islanders 
received a hearty welcome on board H.M.S. 
Dido, bringing to the community some more 
tokens of the kind regards of their friends 
abroad, more especially Rear- Admiral Moresby, 
and his benevolent officers. 
"Nothing can exceed the kind treatment which 
theislanders received from the Captain (Morshead) 
and officers of the Dido. 
" 4th. Our people are very busily occupied 
in the laborious though certainly .delightful, 
