AGRICULTUEE. 123 
In their houses they had a good deal of 
decent furniture, consisting of beds laid upon 
bedsteads, with neat covering ; they had also 
tables, and large chests to contain their valu- 
ables and clothing, which is made from the 
bark of a certain tree, prepared chiefly by 
the elder Otaheitan females. Adams's house 
consisted of two rooms, and the windows had 
shutters to pull to at night. The younger 
part of the sex are, as before stated, employed 
with their brothers, under the direction of 
Adams, in the culture of the ground, which 
produced cocoa-nuts, bananas, the bread- 
fruit-tree, yams, sweet potatoes, and turnips. 
They have also plenty of hogs and goats ; 
the woods abound with a species of wild hog, 
and the coasts of the island with several 
kinds of good fish. 
" Their agricultural implements are made 
by themselves, from the iron supplied by the 
Bounty, which, with great labour, they beat 
.out into spades, hatchets, &c. This was not 
all. The old man kept a regular journal, in 
which was entered the nature and quantity 
of work performed by each family, what each 
had received, and what was due on account. 
