140 PRESENT POPULATION. 
good leaven, thus infused into other com- 
munities, would produce the happiest effects 
upon them. 
In the little work, entitled, " The Mutiny 
of the Bounty," it is remarked, that the 
Pitcairners have already proceeded from the 
simple canoe to row-boats; and that the 
progress from this to small-decked vessels 
is simple and natural. They may thus, at 
some future period, be the means of spread- 
ing Christianity, and, consequently, civiliza- 
tion, throughout the numerous groups of 
islands in the Southern Pacific. 
By the last account in the autumn of 1852, 
the number of persons inhabiting the island 
was 170 ; namely, 88 males, and 82 females. 
All are natives of the place except three, the 
Rev. Geo. H. Nobbs, John Buffett, and John 
Evans. The only surnames on the island are 
eight ; namely, Adams, Christian, M'Coy, 
Quintal, Young, Buffett, Evans, and Nobbs. 
Brown, Martin, and Williams, had no chil- 
dren ; nor had any of the Otaheitan men. 
John Mills left no son. 
The original division of the island was 
into nine parts, between the nine muti- 
