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of the Scriptures, and subsequently teaching 
them to read for themselves ; and so anxious 
were the young people to learn, that on one 
occasion two of the lads, who were employed 
by Adams to make a mattock of iron from 
the wreck of the Bounty, instead of accept- 
ing the promised compensation, (a quantity 
of gunpowder,) told Adams, they would 
rather he should give them some extra 
lessons from God's Book, a name by which 
they used to designate the Bible. And now 
peace and contentment pervaded this rock of 
the West. The young men and women en- 
tered into the social relations of husband and 
wife; and they, in turn, depending on that 
most precious promise of their all-sufficient 
Saviour, ' Where two or three are gathered 
together in my name, there am I in the 
midst of them,' instructed their children with 
that knowledge which is better than riches. 
They brought them to Jesus. 
" The population of this settlement now 
amounts to 170 persons, who are living with- 
out any dissensions, and with but one form 
of Church government that of the Church 
of England. The Holy Bible, and the 
