CHAPTER IV. 
CHRISTIAN AND HIS PARTY — PITCAIRN'S ISLAND — FOLGER's 
ACCOUNT— LANDING OF NINE MUTINEERS AND OF OTAHEI- 
TANS AT PITCAIRN — DREADFUL DEATHS OF CHRISTIAN AND 
OTHERS INTOLERABLE STATE OF SOCIETY AT PITCAIRN — 
INTEMPERANCE — JOHN ADAMS'S DREAMS — HIS REPENTANCE 
AND REFORMATION — HIS SERVICES IN THE CAUSE OF RELIGION 
AND MORALITY IN THE ISLAND. 
To return to the nine missing mutineers. 
Nothing more was heard of Fletcher Christian 
and his party, until twenty years had passed 
from the date of the mutiny ; when Sir Sidney 
Smith, then commander-in-chief on the Brazil 
station, informed the Admiralty, from Rio Ja- 
neiro, that Captain Folger, of the ship Topaz, of 
Boston, United States, on landing on Pitcaim's 
Island, in 1808, had found an Englishman, 
named Alexander Smith, the only person re- 
maining of nine that had sailed in the Bounty. 
Smith, otherwise John Adams (he having, on 
first entering the service, assumed the name of 
Alexander Smith), related, that after putting 
Bligh into the boat, Christian, with the other 
mutineers, had gone to Otaheite, where all hands 
remained, but Christian, Smith, and seven others ; 
that each had taken an Otaheitan wife, and then 
proceeded to Pitcairn, where they had made 
good a landing, and afterwards destroyed the 
Bounty. 
