two white people on the Island the Governor and his wife. They were Spanish and could not speak english, but it was a pleasure to me to walk on the land once more, and through the beautiful gardens. They gave us all the fruit we could carry to the ship

Your uncle was on a whale voyage in the Ship Splendid and he had written your father to meet him on a date in March, in mid ocean, and on that date we saw the ship.

He came on board the Roman and spent the day, he had not been at home for three years and was very anxious to hear all the news we could tell him.

He had with him a