5144 ANNUAL 
pect of a harvest, and without a 
morsel fit to eat; the mournful 
and unhappy fate of many, who 
have been left orphans, abandoned 
to Divine Providence; others wi- 
dows, with the loss of four, five, 
and even more children; the total 
destruction of their churches and 
parochial houses, with every thing 
that they contained; in conse- 
quence of which the sacraments 
could not be administered to such 
as died of their wounds the suc- 
ceeding days, and who were buri- 
ed without any pomp or ceremo- 
ny; and the many infants who 
have since been born, have, from 
necessity, been baptised with com- 
mon water, because the circum- 
stances in which we were placed 
did not permit it to be otherwise. 
«The presentappearance of the 
voleano is most melancholy and 
terrific. Its side, which was for- 
merly so cultivated, and which af- 
forded a prospect the most pic- 
turesque, is now nothing but an 
arid and barren sand. The stones, 
sand, and ashes, which cover it, 
are so astonishing in quantity, 
that in some places they exceed 
the thickness of 10 and 12 yards ; 
and in the very spot. where lately 
stood the village of Budiao, there 
are places in which the cocoa-trees 
are almost covered, In the ruined 
villages, and almost through the 
whole extent of the eruption, the 
ground remains covered with sand 
to the depth of half a yard, and 
scarcely a single tree is left alive. 
The crater of the volcanohas low- 
ered, as I judge, morethan twenty 
fathoms; and on the south side 
discovers a spacious and horrid 
mouth, which it is frightful to 
look at. Three new ones are 
opened at a considerable distance 
REGISTER, 
1815. 
from the principal crater, through 
which also smoke and ashes were 
incessantly emitted. In short, the 
most beautiful villages of Cama- 
rines and the principal part of that 
province are converted into a bar- 
ren sand.’? 
DESCENDANTS OF THE MUTINEERS 
OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP BOUNTY. 
(From the Quarterly Review.} 
It is well known that in the 
year 1789, his majesty’s armed 
vessel the Bounty, while employed 
in conveying the bread-fruit-tree 
from Otaheite to the West Indies 
was run away with by her men, 
and the Captain and some of his 
officers put on boarda boat, which, 
after a passage of 1,200 leagues, 
providentially arrived at a Dutch 
settlement on the island of Timor. 
The mutineers, 25 in number, 
were supposed, from some ex- 
pressions which escaped them 
when the launch was turned a- 
drift, to have made sail towards 
Otaheite. Assoonas this circum- 
stance was known to the Admi- 
ralty, Captain Edwards was or- 
dered to proceed in the Pandora 
to that Island, and endeavour to 
discover and bring to England 
the Bounty, with such of the crew 
as he might be able to secure. 
On his arrival in March, 1791, 
at Matavai-bay, in Otaheite, four 
of the mutineers came volun- 
tarily on board the Pandora 
to surrender themselves; and 
from information given by them, 
ten others (the whole number 
alive upon the island) were, in 
the course of a few days, taken; 
and with the exception of four, 
who perished in the wreck of the 
Pandora, near Endeavour Strait, 
conveyed to England for trial be- 
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