PITCAIEN'S ISLAND. 91' 
sumed the name of Alexander Smith,) related, 
that after putting Bligh into the boat, Chris- 
tian, with the other mutineers, had gone to 
Otaheite, where all hands remained, but 
Christian, Smith, and seven others ; that 
each had taken an Otaheitan wife, and then 
proceeded to Pitcairn, where they had made 
good a landing, and afterwards broken up the 
Bounty. 
This brings our readers to Pitcairn's 
Island. Some of them may desire to learn 
the origin of its name, and the circum- 
stances of its first discovery by British 
navigators. 
Captain Philip Carteret, in his description 
of a Voyage round the World, wrote as fol- 
lows, July 1767 : 
" We continued our course westward till 
the evening of Thursday, the 2d of July, 
when we discovered land to the northward 
of us. Upon approaching it the next day, 
it appeared like a great rock rising out of 
the sea. It was not more than five miles in 
circumference, and seemed to be uninhabited. 
It was, however, covered with trees ; and we 
saw a small stream of fresh water running 
