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by the world in general and romancists in 
particular as “ an English-speaking and deeply 
religious community, brave, fair to look on, 
generous, and virtuous.” Also they were said 
to be endued with a large selection of minor 
qualities, to enumerate which would take up a 
goodly-sized catalogue. Books innumerable 
have been written by enthusiastic globe-trotters 
(mostly ladies) on the beautiful Arcadian exist¬ 
ence that has ever been the lot of the islanders 
since the British Government took compassion 
on the cramped condition of the rapidly multi¬ 
plying descendants of the famous Bounty mu¬ 
tineers on lovely little Pitcairn Island and 
removed two hundred of them from there to 
Norfolk Island in 1856. Long before that 
time, however, the Pitcairn Islanders were held 
up—and very deservedly so— to public admira¬ 
tion as an ideal community, and their future career 
in their new and beautiful home was watched 
and read about with the deepest interest. In 
a very short time, however, primarily inspired 
by their intense affection for Pitcairn, some of 
the emigrants became dissatisfied and rebelled 
against the conditions of life in the new and 
more spacious paradise ; and no less than sixty 
