104 ISLANDS OF OENO AND ELIZABETH. 
There is also, about 120 miles from Pit- 
cairn, Elizabeth, or Henderson's Island, so 
called after Captain Henderson, of the Her- 
cules, of Calcutta. It is nearly eighty feet 
above the level of the sea, five miles in length, 
one mile in breadth, of volcanic formation, 
and covered with dead coral. The soil is 
poor and sandy. There are many trees and 
shrubs on the island, and it has been occa- 
sionally visited by the Pitcairn people, chiefly 
for the sake of the timber found there. On 
the occasion of their visit in 1851, they found 
eight human skeletons lying in caves; pro- 
bably the remains of some shipwrecked mari- 
ners, who, unable to procure food or water, 
had lain down to die. 
The women, in the same year in which 
they had endeavoured to quit Pitcairn, deli- 
berately planned the destruction of the four 
men left among them. This dreadful plot was 
discovered in time by the men ; and a partial 
and suspicious peace was brought about. 
But other horrors remained behind. In 
1798, M'Coy, in a fit of delirium tremens, 
brought on by drunkenness, having thrown 
himself from the rocks into the sea, was 
