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HISTORY OF THE SEA. 



when Governor of New South Wales, proved quite con elusive! y 

 that his cruelties and tyranny had rendered him odious and 

 intolerable. The British Government could not allow such a 

 transaction upon the high seas to pass unpunished, and de- 

 spatched the frigate Pandora r Captain Edwards, to Tahiti in 

 the month of August. Only ten of the mutineers were found, 

 the rest having withdrawn to another island through fear of 

 discovery, as we shall now relate, merely stating that the ten 

 persons taken were conveyed to England, where they were tried 

 and executed. 



John Adams, one of the mutineers, being apprehensive that 

 the English Government would make an attempt to punish the 

 revolt, resolved to escape to some neighboring and uninhabited 

 island, and there establish a colony. With eight Englishmen, 

 one of whom was Christian, the ringleader in the mutiny, their 

 Tahitian wives, and a few islanders of both sexes, he sailed in 

 the Bounty to Pitcairn's Island, which had been lately seen by 

 Carteret. They arrived there in 1790, and, having unladen the 

 vessel, burned her. A settlement was formed, which prospered in 

 spite of the continual quarrels between the males of the two races. 

 This hostility resulted, in three years, in the extinction of the 



COLONISTS OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND. 



savages, leaving upon the island Adams, three Englishmen, ten 

 women of Tahiti, and the children, > some twenty in number. 

 One of the Englishmen, having succeeded in distilling brandy 



