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him ; and a blow was aimed at his head with 
the butt-end of a musket. This he warded off 
with his hand, having his finger broken by the 
blow. On his again escaping, he ran down the 
rocks towards the sea; but his pursuers called 
out to him, that if he would return he should 
not be hurt. He returned accordingly, and they 
troubled him no more. All the Otaheitan men 
were killed in the same year; one of them having 
been destroyed by Young's wife with an axe. 
As soon as she had killed him, she gave a signal 
to her husband to fire upon the only remaining 
Otaheitan. This was done with fatal precision ' 
This woman, Susannah, afterwards married 
Thursday October Christian, Fletcher Chris- 
tian's son, and died at an advanced age in the 
year 1850. She was the last survivor of the 
Bounty. 
The sanguinary frays among the members of 
the small body of inhabitants, from the time of 
their landing to 1794, have been described at 
different times. These painful particulars shall 
be passed over. One point, however, connected 
with the murders deserves mention, as it may 
serve to clear up some doubt regarding the death 
of Fletcher Christian. As the spot in which he 
was buried on the island is not known, and as 
a person resembling him was seen, about the 
year 1809, in Fore Street, Plymouth, by Captain 
Peter Hey wood, who imagined, from a transient 
view, that the stranger was Fletcher Christian 
himself, an impression in some quarters prevailed, 
that Christian had escaped the massacre of 1793, 
and had returned to England. It was said that 
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