122 ADAMS'S HOUSE. 
and of stock to maintain a family, they are 
allowed to marry, but always with the con- 
sent of Adams. 
" The greatest harmony prevailed in this 
little society ; their only quarrels, and these 
rarely happened, being, according to their 
own expression, quarrels of the mouth; they 
are honest in their dealings, which consist of 
bartering different articles for mutual accom- 
modation. 
" Their habitations are extremely neat. 
The little village of Pitcairn forms a pretty 
square, the houses at the upper end of which 
are occupied by the patriarch John Adams 
and his family, consisting of his old blind wife 
and three daughters, from fifteen to eighteen 
years of age, and a boy of eleven ; a daughter 
of his wife by a former husband, and a son- 
in-law. On the opposite side is the dwelling 
of Thursday October Christian, and in the 
centre is a smooth verdant lawn, on which 
the poultry are let loose, fenced in so as to 
prevent the intrusion of the domestic quad- 
rupeds. All that was done was obviously 
undertaken on a settled plan, unlike to any- 
thing to be met with on the other islands. 
