CHAPTER IV. 
DESCRIPTION OP THE STATE OF PITCAIRN IN 1814, AND SUB- 
SEQUENT TEARS ACCOUNT GIVEN BY SIR THOMAS STAINES, 
AND CAPTAIN BEECHET EMIGRATION TO OTAHEITE IN 
1831 QUEEN POMARE HER LETTER TO QUEEN VICTORIA. 
ON the occasion of Captain Folger's visit to 
Pitcairn in 1808, lie had carried away a chro- 
nometer and compass, originally belonging 
to the Bounty, for the purpose of forwarding 
them to the Admiralty. But no further 
notice was taken of the island, nor of its 
inhabitants, until 1814, when his Majesty's 
ships Briton and Tagus, Captain Sir Thomas 
Staiiies, and Captain Pipon, being in search 
of an American ship of war, the Essex, 
which had been seizing some of our whaling 
vessels, arrived at Pitcairn. Adams now 
supposed that his time was come, and that 
he should be carried away. Though much 
alarmed, he did not attempt concealment, but 
