Recent Accounts respeciing Pitcairn's Island. 127 



Their greatest want was implements for agriculture, mechanic 

 tools, and cooking utensils, of which we could only supply them 

 with our pitch-pot, one or two s])ades, and a saw, with a few 

 knives and forks, some plates, a few pair of shoes, and the read- 

 ing glass of n)y sextant for old Adams, whose sight was failing. 



•■' There are five Otaheitan women, and old Adams, that alone 

 remain of the original settlers. Two ships had been seen from 

 the island before the iVigates appeared; but although they were 

 ueiu' enough to see the people on board them, and made signs to 

 ti.cin from the shore, they did not land. There vvere no canoes 

 built on the island at that time, so that they could not go off. 



"•■ These are the principal facts with which my memory fur- 

 nishes me at present ; hut I hope I shall be able to give you a 

 better description of the island and its inhabitants when I return 

 again to Calcutta." 



Narrative of a Taheitan JVoman. 

 *' The following account I have just received from a Taheitan 

 woman, who was the wife of Isaac Madden, one of the mutineers. 

 She has been apparently a good-looking woman in her time, but 

 now begins to bear the marks of age. She is marked on the left 

 arm A. S. 17S9, which was done by Adam Smith, to whom she 

 attached herself at first, and sailed with him both before and 

 after the ship was taken. She has lately arrived hither in the King 

 George from Nugahiva, at which place she was left by an Ameri- 

 can ship, the captain of which took her from Pitcairn's Island to 

 the Spanish main, and afterwards left her at Nugahiva. Slie has 

 resided at Nugahiva about three months, and it is more than 

 double that time since she left Pitcairn's Island. 



" When Fletcher Christian cut his cable and left Tahcite, the 

 following persons were on board the Bounty : Fletcher Christian, 

 John Main, Bill M'Koy, Billy Brown, Jack Williams, Neddy 

 Young, Isaac Madden, Matt or Matthew, and Adam Smith — 

 nine Eiiropeujis . Teirima, Nain (a boy), and Manarii — Tahei- 

 lans. Tarara, a Raiateau, and Oher and Titahita, Tuhiinns. — 

 The Taheitan tvomen were Manatua, Christian's wife; Vahi- 

 neatua, Main's wife; Teio, the wife of M'Koy, who was ac- 

 companied by her little daughter ; Sarah Tcatuanirca, Brown's 

 wife ; Faahotu, Williams's wife; Terrura, Young's wife; Teehu- 

 Icatuaonoa or Jenny, Maddeu's wife, before mentioned ; Obuarci, 

 Adam Smith's wife; Tevarua, Matt's wife; Toofaiti, Tararo's 

 wife; Marcva, common to the two Taheitans; and Tinafornea, 

 common to the two Tubuans. 



" In their pa'-sage to Pitcairn's Island they fell in with a low 

 lagoon island, which they call Vivini, where they got bird^, cgga, 



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