To Him we committed our fate.

We were happy and tranquil, looking with resignation to the future.
END OF THE FIRST PART OF THE JOURNAL.
* * * * * POSTSCRIPT BY THE EDITOR.
It is necessary to explain how this first part of the journal of the Swiss pastor came into my hands.
Three or four years after the family had been cast on this desert coast, where, as we see, they lived a happy and contented life, an English transport was driven by a storm upon the same shore.

This vessel was the _Adventurer_, Captain Johnson, and was returning from New Zealand to the eastern coast of North America, by Otaheite, to fetch a cargo of furs for China, and then to proceed from Canton to England.

A violent storm, which lasted several days, drove them out of their course.

For many days they wandered in unknown seas, and the ship was so injured by the storm, that the captain looked out for some port to repair it.