Extract from the Journal ^Captain Henry King. S8S • 
tree, where we slept very comfortably all night. In the morn- 
ing, we breakfasted on fowls and a beverage like tea, made 
from a root similar to the gentian, but which they called ginger. 
After breakfast we returned to the Ship Landing-place, to en- 
deavour to go on board ; but the sea was too high. Davy, as 
they called the sea, had never been so bad before, excepting 
once in their remembrance. W e were all sitting down in conver- 
sation, when a little child ran down to go into the surf. I ran to 
prevent the child, and so did the wife of Charles Christian, say- 
ing at the same time to Diana, the eldest daughter of John 
Adams, “ Diana, your child will be drowned.” Adams having 
told me, prior to this, that his daughters were not married, I ex- 
pressed my surprise to the wife of Christian. Old Adams hear- 
ing this, took' me aside, and gave me the following account : 
Notwithstanding his paternal care of his daughters, Edward 
Quintral and Diana had committed an offence against the laws of 
God, for which he supposed them worthy of death, and ac- 
cordingly gave orders that they should be shot ; but as no per- 
son seeming willing to execute his orders, he made the necessary 
preparations for executing them himself, when he was strongly 
opposed by Auther Quintral, who said that though the of- 
fence was certainly a great one, and the more so, as a similar 
one had not been committed since the death of Christian ; yet 
he did not conceive it to be a crime worthy of death. The rest 
being of the same opinion, Adams changed his mind also, but 
forbade them to marry. Adams, upon this occasion, probably 
changed his mind through interest, for he will not suffer his 
daughters to marry for fear of losing their labour in cultivat- 
ing his plantation. 
As we could not go on board, I now searched for a watering- ‘ 
place, and found a very convenient one in moderate weather, and 
with excellent water. Each family gathered together some poul- 
try, hogs, goats, plantains, and every thing the island produced, 
and next morning, Davy being milder, we went on board, ac- 
companied by the whole population of the island. As most of 
them had never seen a ship, they were much pleased, but soon 
grew sea-sick. I now gave them a whale-boat, in return for 
their refreshments, some books, razors, combs, and, in short, 
every thing they stood in need of ; but nothing pleased them 
so well as the books : as they wished much to read and write, I 
