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gallons of water, a little rum and wine, a quadrant 

 and a compass. A few pieces of pork, some cocoa- 

 nuts, and four cutlasses, were thrown to them as they 

 were cast adrift. The nearest civilized land was the 

 Dutch colony of Timoor, distant three thousand rive 

 hundred miles. This they reached in forty-one days, 

 after incredible hardships and the loss of one man ; 

 here they received hospitable treatment, and event- 

 ually reached England. Ten of the mutineers were 

 afterwards found and executed; the others removed 

 to another island, where most of them led dissolute 

 lives and miserably died. The history of Adams and 

 his companions has been told in missionary tales so 

 often that every one is familiar with its minutest de- 

 tails. After sailing to Pitcairn's Island, in the Bounty, 

 they burned her, extirpated the male inhabitants in 

 three years, and laid the foundation of a colony upon 

 which England looked with interest, even with favor. 



At a subsequent period Lieutenant Bligh was fur- 

 nished with another vessel, in which he accomplished 

 the object for which he was sent, and the bread-fruit 

 was introduced into St. Vincent in 1793. In this 

 island it flourished in greater abundance than in any 

 other of the Caribbean chain, and aside from forming 

 small groves on many of the plantations, it has ex- 

 tended its range into the forest-borders, and may be 

 found in some of the deeper valleys in a wild state, a 

 companion of the " trumpet tree," which somewhat 

 resembles it in appearance. 



There was a hollow, near my Carib cabin in St. 



Vincent, between two high hills, the center deepening 



to a gutter where generally ran a little brook. Up 



the bed of this gutter I climbed one day, at noon, first 



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