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the leaves of the trees. We found the people 

 very friendly and hospitable, the young married 

 and single women very diffident. They are tall 

 — the most of them — and handsomely shaped. 

 Their every-day dress is a loose gown, with no 

 shoes, bonnet or handkerchief. Their children 

 are very pretty and healthy, and are good 

 scholars. The boys at 10 and 11 had gone in the 

 arithmetic as far as the rule of three. The men 

 are well made, tall, with good features, and are 

 very strong. They are very fair and honest in 

 all their dealings. Their principal industry is 

 in cultivating the ground. The island is equally 

 divided among all the people. In trading with 

 ships every family sells an equal share. The 

 women are very strong. I met several coming 

 from the mountain. When down to the village I 

 took the load from some of their backs, and 

 counted five large watermelons as one load. 

 When the boats returned to the ship with the 

 captain, he was accompanied by John Adams, the 

 son of John Adams, one of the survivors of the 

 Bounty, and Christian, the son of Lieutenant 

 Christian, the leader of the mutiny. 



A real romance of the sea is that surrounding 

 Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. For from the 

 mutineers of the Bounty, an English ship, and 



