CHAPTER III 
CHRISTIAN AND HIS PARTY PITCAIRN'S ISLAND FOLGER'S 
ACCOUNT LANDING OP NINE MUTINEERS AND OTHERS 
AT PITCAIRN DREADFUL DEATHS OF CHRISTIAN AND 
OTHERS INTOLERABLE STATE OF SOCIETY AT PITCAIRN 
INTEMPERANCE REPENTANCE AND REFORMATION OF 
ADAMS HIS SERVICES IN THE CAUSE OF RELIGION AND 
MORALITY IN THE ISLAND. 
NOTHING more was heard of Christian and 
his party, until twenty years had passed 
from the date of the mutiny ; when Sir 
Sidney Smith, then commander-in-chief on 
the Brazil station, informed the Admiralty, 
from Rio Janeiro, that Captain Folger, of 
the ship Topaz, of Boston, United States, 
on landing on Pitcairn's Island, in 1808, 
had found an Englishman, named Alexander 
Smith, the only person remaining of nine 
that had found their way thither in the 
Bounty. Smith, otherwise John Adams, 
(who had, on first entering the service, as- 
