Revised Jun 21 2021
After this digression, the reader will be glad to return to the history of Mr. Nobbs. In about nine months after he had been at the Gambier Islands, the people of Pitcairn recalled him, with the other Europeans; the request for their return being accompanied by an offer of payment of all their expenses; and they returned accordingly, without further delay.
Mr. Nobbs's active life in the Chilian service has been briefly noticed. On the 9th of November, 1839, when engaged in the quiet and sedentary, but scarcely less laborious, duty of a pastor and teacher at Pitcairn, with his youthful pupils around him, he had the satisfaction of receiving, as a visitor to the island, General Friere, ex-president of Chili, who had known him eighteen years before. What a contrast to those former scenes is afforded by the picture presented by the plain and simple words, found in the Island Register, respecting this visit!*