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the day before for another part of the island. They were pursued, and the schooner 

 secured, but the mutineers had fled to the mountains. A day or two elapsed, when they 

 ventured down, and when within hearing were ordered to lay down their arms, which 

 they did, and were put in irons. Captain Edwards put them into a round-house, built 

 on the after part of the quarter-deck, in order to isolate them from the crew. According 

 to the statement of one of the prisoners, the midshipmen were kept ironed by the legs, 

 separate from the men, in a kind of round-house, aptly termed "Pandora's Box," which 

 was entered by a scuttle in the roof, about eighteen inches square. "The prisoners' wives 

 visited the ship daily, and brought their children, who were permitted to be carried to 

 their unhappy fathers. To see the poor captives in irons/' says the only narrative 



MAP OF THE ISLANDS OF THE 1'ACIFIC. 



published of the Pandora's visit, " weeping over their tender offspring, was too moving 

 a scene for any feeling heart. Their wives brought them ample supplies of every delicacy 

 that the country afforded while we lay there, and behaved with the greatest fidelity and 

 affection to them."* Stewart, the midshipman, had espoused the daughter of an old chief, 

 and they had lived together in the greatest harmony ; a beautiful little girl had been 

 the fruit of the union. When Stewart was confined in irons, Peggy, for so her husband 

 had named her, flew with her infant in a canoe to the arms of her husband. The interview 

 was so painful that Stewart begged she might not be admitted on board again. Forbidden 

 to see him, she sank into the greatest dejection, and seemed to have lost all relish for 

 food and existence ; she pined away and died two months afterwards, f 



All the mutineers that were left on the island having been secured, the ship proceeded 

 to other islands in search of those who had gone away in the Bounty. It must be 

 mentioned, however, that two of the men had perished by violent deaths. They had 



* "Voyage Round the World," by G. Hamilton. f "A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific" 



