MISCELLANIES. 
English. They proved to be the 
descendants of the deluded crew of 
the Bounty, which, from Otaheite, 
proceeded to the above-mentioned 
island, where the ship was burnt. 
«« Christian appeared to have 
been the leader and sole cause 
of the mutiny in that ship. A ve- 
nerable old man, named John 
Adams, is the only surviving Eng- 
Jishman of those who last quitted 
Otaheite in her, and whose ex- 
emplary conduct, and fatherly 
care of the whole little colony, 
could not but command admira- 
tion. The pious manner in which 
all those born in the island have 
been reared, the correct sense of 
religion which has .been instilled 
into their young minds by this old 
man, has given him the pre-emi- 
nence over the whole of them, to 
whom they look up as the father 
of the whole and one family. 
‘© A son of Christian was the 
first born on the island, now about 
25 years of age (named Thursday 
October Christian): the elder 
Christian fell a sacrifice to the 
jealousy of an Otaheitan man, 
within three or four years after 
their arrival on the island. They 
were accompanied thither by six 
Otaheitan men and 12 women; 
the former were all swept away 
by desperate contentions between 
them and the Englishmen, and 
five of the latter have died at dif- 
ferent periods, leaving at present 
only one man and several women 
of the original settlers. 
«< The island must undoubtedly 
be that called Pitcairn’s, although 
erroneously laid down in the 
charts. We had the meridian sun 
close to it, which gave us 25 deg. 
4 mio. S. latitude, and 130 deg. 
25 min. W. longtitude, by chro- 
nometers of the Briton and Tagus, 
517 
‘¢ It is abundant in yams, plan- 
tains, hogs, goats, and fowls, but 
affords no shelter for a ship or 
vessel of any description; neither 
could a ship water there without 
great difficulty. 
“I cannot refrain from offering 
my opinion that it is well worthy 
the attention of our laudable re- 
ligious societies, particularly that 
for propagating the Christian Re- 
ligion, the whole of the inhabit- 
antsspeaking the Otaheitan tongue 
as well as English. 
“«¢ During the whole of the time 
they have been on the island, only 
one ship has ever communicated 
with them, which took place about 
six years since by an American 
ship called the Topaz, of Boston, 
Mayhew Folger master. 
‘ The island is completely iron- 
bound with rocky shores, and 
landing in boats at all times diffi- 
cult, although safe to approach 
within a short distance in a ship. 
(Signed) 
“ T. STAINES.” 
We have been favoured with 
some further particulars of this 
singular society, which, we doubt 
not, will interest our readers as 
much as they have ourselves. As 
the real position of the island was 
ascertained to be so far distant 
from that in which it is usually 
laid down in the charts, and as the 
Captains of the Briton and Ta- 
gus seem to have still considered 
it as uninhabited, they were not a 
little surprised, on approaching 
its shores, to behold plantations 
regularly laid out, and huts or 
houses more neatly constructed 
than those of the Marquesas is- 
lands. When about two miles from 
theshoresome natives were observ- 
ed bringing down their canoes on 
