THE PITCAIRN ISLANDERS. 7 
mestic fowls, and a quantity of wild pigs and fowls. 
Even 16,000 lbs. of hay and 5000 of straw were left 
them ; and, lest their first crop should be late or fall 
short, a list of additional supplies was sent to the Go- 
vernor-General.* According to all accounts the Pit- 
cairners do not display themselves to advantage in their 
new home, and most visitors are anything but pleased 
with them. As might have been expected, the nume- 
rous presents given and sent to them have had a bad 
effect, making them accomplished beggars, who state 
their case in such a way as will most readily induce the 
hearer to give them some present or influence others 
to do so. They are besides said to be an indolent set, 
who, rather than fetch fuel from the woods, will burn. 
the floors, doors, and window-frames of the fine buildings 
erected by the convicts, and generously placed by Go- 
vernment at their disposal. If report be true, Sir Wil- 
liam Denison, on his visit to the island, gave them a 
severe and well-deserved lecture on this head. Several 
of them are said to have already returned to Pitcairn 
Island, where they seem to have felt more comfortable, 
though cramped for space, and a few are said to have 
embarked in whaling operations. Let us hope that the 
whole community, about which so much truth and fic- 
tion has been written, may gradually be led to habits of 
industry, and learn to rely more upon its own resources 
than the charitable contributions of others. 
On the 10th of May we got the trade wind, and on 
Saturday the 12th, about eight o’clock in the morning, 
caught the first glimpse of Fiji We had left Sydney 
* See Captain Denham in ‘ Hydrographic Notice,’ n. 5. 
