370 MATHERS AND GHEGORIE. 
denying people seemed to gather physical com- 
fort and energy as they responded to our 
^ beautiful Church service, rendered the more 
touchingly so by their admirable chanting. 
And they listened patiently and devoutly to the 
well -adapted exhortation of their revered pastor 
and counsellor, the Rev. George Hunu Nobbs. 
This gentleman could not rest until he had 
expressed to me the pervading gratitude which 
the arrangement for the transit and reception of 
his flock had excited." 
Captain Denham then adverted to the admi- 
rable manner in which acting Lieut. Gregorie 
managed their embarcation, so that every mov- 
able article, " even to the Gun and Anvil of the 
.Bounty" had been transferred. He described the 
friendly zeal with which Captain Mathers, the 
master of the transport, followed out his under- 
taking on a five weeks' passage; the tender 
treatment of alarming cases of sea-sickness, 
which ceased not from inland to island ; the 
birth which took place during the voyage ; and 
finally, the joyful sight of one of the Queen's 
ships, in whose boats the people were landed. 
Captain Denham, with the commissariat officer, 
greeted them individually, as they* set foot on 
shore, and conducted them to their comfortable 
quarters, on Norfolk Island. 
" The following week," said he, " was success- 
fully employed in landing all the seventy years' 
gathering of chattels belonging to the Pitcairners, 
notwithstanding the precarious sea-board of this 
island causing the ships to put to sea every 
night. They could, therefore, duly observe 
