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on the title-page, and contains, in the fly-leaves, 
some of his handwriting, chiefly in the language 
of Otaheite. The writing, which is much oblite- 
rated, probably by salt-water, consists of notes 
of events and places in which he was concerned. 
The first date is the memorable 28th of April, 
1789, the day of the mutiny, The next entry 
is—" Sep. 22, 1789, Mya Toobooai* w?/e."— 
"Mar. 25, 1791, We ta Pahee Pandora."— 
" Edwards, 1 Sept. 1791."—" 18 March, 1792, 
We tow te Vredenberg tea (several Otaheitan words 
follow, with English proper names intermingled 
in the sentence), Table Bay, Gorgon, Port 
Jackson."—" 24 March, 1192, Pahee Hector." 
This interesting relic, and the little drawings 
above mentioned, are in Mrs. Heywood's pos- 
session. 
Captain Edwards, and the remainder of the 
crew, after leaving the sandy quay, made their 
way in the ship's boats to Timor, where they 
arrived September 15th, 1791. They had in the 
mean time suffered dreadful privations. A very 
small allowance of bread and water each day 
was carefully served out to the men, the weight 
of each portion of bread being ascertained by 
a musket-ball. A pair of wooden scales had 
been made for each of the four boats. One of 
the seamen went mad, and died from drinking 
salt water to quench his intolerable thirst. In 
* The allusion to Toobooai applies to the island of that 
name in lat. 20° 13' S. long. 149° 35' W\, where the muti- 
neers had landed after the mutiny, and where, on a second 
visit, they had begun to throw up a fort. They again left 
Toobooai for Otaheite in the Bounty at tho end of September 
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