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gallons of water, a little rum and wine, a quadrant 
and a compass. A few pieces of pork, some cocoa- 
nuts, and four cutlasses, were thrown to them as they 
were cast adrift. The nearest civilized land was the 
Dutch colony of Timoor, distant three thousand five 
hundred miles. This they reached in forty-one days, 
after incredible hardships and the loss of one man; 
here they received hospitable treatment, and event- 
ually reached England. Ten of the mutineers were 
afterwards found and executed; the others removed 
to another island, where most of them led dissolute 
lives and miserably died. The history of Adams and 
his companions has been told in missionary tales so 
often that every one is familiar with its minutest de- 
tails. After sailing to Pitcairn’s Island, in the Bounty, 
they burned her, extirpated the male inhabitants in 
three years, and laid the foundation of a colony upon 
which England looked with interest, even with favor. 
At a subsequent period Lieutenant Bligh was fur- 
nished with another vessel, in which he accomplished 
the object for which he was sent, and the bread-fruit 
was introduced into St. Vincent in 1793. In this 
island it flourished in greater abundance than in any- 
other of the Caribbean chain, and aside from forming 
small groves on many of the plantations, it has ex- 
tended its range into the forest-borders, and may be 
found in some of the deeper valleys in a wild state, a 
companion of the “trumpet tree,” which somewhat 
resembles it in appearance. 
There was a hollow, near my Carib cabin in St. 
Vincent, between two high hills, the center deepening 
to a gutter where generally ran a little brook. Up 
the bed of this gutter I climbed one day, at noon, first 
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