Each season, as it rolls around,
New beauties gives;
And every object, silent, cries,
“My Maker lives.”
CHAPTER V.
JOHN BUFFETT and JOHN EVANS
Marriages and Births
TO RETURN to John Adams and his small community. Five or six years had passed since the visits of the Briton and the Tagus, and during that time the fact of the island being inhabited, and by whom, had become more widely known. About the year 1819 the East India Company’s ship Hercules, Captain Henderson, made a call at the island and left some useful and much-needed gifts for the islanders, consisting of carpenters’ tools, large iron boilers, etc., etc., the last mentioned being used chiefly for the purpose of boiling down salt water to obtain salt.