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1791, just eighteen months after the Bounty's 
last departure from the island, three of the 
men, who had remained there nearly two 
years, namely, J. Coleman, P. Heywood, and 
G. Stewart, came on board the Pandora, and 
surrendered themselves to the law. They were 
received with all the sternness of offended 
justice, and instantly put in irons. The 
captain succeeded in taking eleven others at 
Otaheite, who were also carefully ironed. 
Two of the mutineers, Churchill and 
Thompson, who had landed with the rest at 
Otaheite, were no longer in existence. The 
history of these two men has a dreadful kind 
of interest belonging to it. Within a short pe- 
riod of their quitting the Bounty, one of them, 
the ship's corporal, had become a king, and 
both had been murdered! Marshall, in his 
Naval Biography, informs us, that Churchill, 
after residing a short time at Matavai, ac- 
cepted an invitation to live with Waheeadooa, 
who was sovereign of Teiarraboo, when Cap- 
tain Cook last visited that place. Thompson 
accompanied Churchill thither ; but they 
very soon disagreed. Waheeadooa dying 
without children, Churchill, who had been his 
