close to my house, where nearly all the people of the island assembled to welcome and visit them, and so plied them with bread-fruit that one actually died from repletion, and several others would have shared the same fate if I had not dosed them with emetics and cathartics. What became of them after I left I never heard, but was told that most of them pined for their coral home.

"With sentiments of respect, permit me to subscribe myself your much obliged and very humble servant,

"ADMIRAL SIR FAIRFAX MORESBY, G.C.B."

"GEORGE H. NOBBS.

Captain Morshead visited the Gambier Islands nearly twenty years subsequent to the period of Mr. Nobbs's residence there. He gives the following description of them, and of the increase of French influence:

"H.M.S. Dido, Valparaiso, December 15th, 1853. "Not having seen any notice of these islands since 1826, I do not consider they have any natural advantages as a watering-place at present; but as water is abundant, reservoirs and tanks might easily be constructed should they ever become a rendezvous. I found the French protectorate flag flying on shore and five French families, but no one in any official capacity. There are three Romish priests on the island, Father Cyprian being at their head, who holds the king and natives in the most perfect subjection, both temporal and spiritual. There are several stone-built houses on the island, and a handsome Romish church two hundred feet long, with a double row of columns inside, and capable of containing a thousand persons. The altar is chaste and beautiful, formed of motherof-pearl. Upon the hill on the south side of Mount Duff is a cemetery, and a convent containing one hundred nuns and sixty children, whose interval between prayer and penance is filled up by trundling a distaff, and spinning native cotton to supply a factory with a dozen hand-looms at work. With respect to supplies, mountain sheep, goats, hogs, fowls, and fish can be procured. Most of the tropical vegetables grow, tara and pumpkin being principally cultivated; but onions, leeks, carrots, spinach, lettuces and cabbage, with a few European potatoes, are cultivated by the French families. Of fruits, cocoa-nuts, bananas, bread-fruit, and pineapples are abundant, and very fine oranges and limes are scarce; the paupau apple and fig are also there. Wood for building and firing is scarce and bad, the bread-fruit timber being principally used.

"The islands produce annually about four hundred tons of pearl-shells, and pearls about equal in value to the shells. Nearly every native had a few pearls concealed about his person, and rather over-estimate their value. There were several large collections in the islands, and some very indifferent, but a few in the possession of the king were magnificent. The population is now a little over two thousand, an epidemic having lately (according to Father Cyprian) swept off several hundreds. The natives are rather a good specimen of the Kanaka (Polynesian) race-tractable, hard-working, and expert boatmen. They were all well dressed, and clothes, cutlery, tobacco, and soap were sought after, and readily taken in exchange for supplies. The king having expressed a desire to see the ship, I received him with manned yards and a salute, at which he was delighted; but no flag was hoisted, not being aware that the French protectorate is either claimed or acknowledged. His majesty was accompanied by the priests, and is a fine-looking man about the middle age, and was dressed in plain European costume. He has a mild intelligent countenance, and I have no doubt would govern his subjects and develop the resources of his islands equally well without the assistance of the priests, but, in justice to those reverend gentlemen, I must avow I found them exceedingly useful."

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