IN MEMORY OF THE REV. JOSIAH STEPHENS, A FAITHFUL INSTRUCTOR OF YOUTH, AND PIOUS MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, SUPPORTED ON THIS ISLAND BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL, WHO DIED JULY 2, 1804. AGED 64 YEARS. ----------- LIKEWISE OF MRS. SUSANNAH STEPHENS, HIS BELOVED WIFE, WHO DIED DEC. 7, 1810. AGED 64 YEARS. and, on the other, this high eulogy:-- UNDERNEATH ARE THE REMAINS OF THE REV. JOHN TUCKE, A.M., HE GRADUATED AT HARVARD COLLEGE, A.D. 1723; WAS ORDAINED HERE JULY 26, 1732. AND DIED AUG. 12, 1773. AET 72. HE WAS AFFABLE AND POLITE IN HIS MANNER, AMIABLE IN HIS DISPOSITION, OF GREAT PIETY AND INTEGRITY, GIVEN TO HOSPITALITY, DILIGENT AND FAITHFUL IN HIS PASTORAL OFFICE, WELL LEARNED IN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY, AS WELL AS GENERAL SCIENCE, AND A CAREFUL PHYSICIAN BOTH TO THE BODIES AND THE SOULS OF HIS PEOPLE. ERECTED 1800. IN MEMORY OF THE JUST. Miss De Severn bowed reverently in honor of such lives having been lived in the midst of the ignorance and corruption which she knew to have then pervaded the islands. From this rocky burial-ground they wended their way to the three-sided monument, enclosed within a railing, which was on one of the highest rocks on the island. Frank remembered that it was erected in 1864, in honor of Captain John Smith, one of the first explorers of the islands; but as he was ignorant of the meaning of the Turk's head on its top--the one left of the three which were once there--Mrs. Tracy told him and Reuben about Smith's successful encounter with the three Turks, as well as some other tales pertaining to his brave exploits, after which they read on the sides of the monument the words inscribed in his honor.