246 PITCAIRN ISLANDERS. 
conducted them to her father, a man of phe 
but still of very vigorous appearance. 
The conversation naturally fell on Christian’s 
mutiny, In which Adams maintained he had 
taken no part, having been wholly unacquainted 
with the design till the moment of its execu- 
tion. He spoke with abhorrence of the manner 
in which Captain Bligh and his officers and 
men had been treated. 
The Captain proposed to Adams to accom- 
pany him back to England; but the whole 
colony assembling round him, with tears in 
their eyes, besought him not to take their good 
father from them. The scene affected even the 
Englishmen. 
The Pitcairn islanders are of very pleasing 
exterior; they have black hair and beautiful 
teeth. The men are slender, and their height 
five feet ten inches and upwards. The dress 
of both sexes consists of a mantle like the 
Chilian pancho, and they wear hats made of 
reeds adorned with feathers. They still possess. 
a great quantity of old clothes from the ship 
Bounty, but, with better taste than their mater- 
nal ancestors the Tahaitians, they never wear 
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