CONCERNING PITCAIRN by Edward Stubbs

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 34.

CONCERNING PITCAIRN.

By Edward Stubbs

No. 9 Oriel Chambers, Water St., Liverpool. March 29, 1905. PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., Mountain View, Cal.

Dear Sirs: Many thanks for your letter of the 10th, and for the book, "Story of Pitcairn," which will be most useful. Miss Young wrote me from Mangareva, one of the Gambier Islands, to say that she had gone on a little expedition to meet some missionaries, and had decided to wait for the little Cutter's return, but the boat never came back. Upon arrival at Pitcairn it was blowing too hard to land; the boat appears to have dragged her anchor, and when about eight miles from shore she was capsized by too heavy seas. One man was asleep below and was drowned. His fellow watchman got up somehow through the inrushing water, and he and the two men on watch on deck got into a little scow which the cutter carried, and reached the shore.

The Government had loaned them 200 pounds ($1,000) toward the last boat, but that money was still unpaid, and altho the Treasury have wiped off the debt, they decline to lend any more. It is very uncertain what I may be able to do in the way of getting subscriptions. Can you help me to raise more money, or can you find out for me what a well-fitted boat of thirty tons could be obtained for at San Francisco?

I suppose poor Miss Young is still at Mangareva, altho she may have gotten to Papeete, Society Islands. I am writing to our consul there and also to our consul in San Francisco. It might be well in case you take any action to communicate with the latter, so as to prevent our efforts overlapping each other. *Yours most truly, (Signed) EDWARD STUBBS, Captain Royal Navy.*

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