Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 16: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts; May, 1856 He also landed on it in the year 1835; also, namely on the 14th day of August, 1839, he landed for the purpose of burying an American seaman when, by digging for the place of interment, he discovered, as he has since' ascertained, that said, island was covered 'with guano. He also landed on said island in the years, 1844, 1845, and 1851, and the island re mained unoccupied and uninhabited, ex cept as the burial place of said American seaman. Further, he is informed by who landed about September, 1854, that said island was still unoccupied, which he verily believes remains so to the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.