there are in abundance, all healthy and robust,
and just one year older than another»
Glass is one of the garrison the British
Government sent here some years since, and
which was soon after given up ; but he and his
wife requested that they might be permitted
to remain. On the arrival of the garrison,
the only inhabitants they found, were an old
Italian named Thomas, and a wretched looking
half-cast Portuguese. They said they were
the last survivors of the American party settled
here under Lambat, who, as their story ran,
was lost with a number of men crossing to one
of the neighbouring islands ; but, from all the
intelligence I obtained from Glass, who described
this Italian to be a morose, mysterious
person, I suspected he and his comrade knew
something more of the fate of poor Lambat
and his party than they chose to disclose. A
story was easily invented, of all their companions
perishing “ at one fell swoop,” and,
as a matter of course, the survivors became
masters of all the property left on the island.
There was but too strong evidence that these
two villains despatched their comrades by some