116 DREADFUL FATE OF THE MUTINEERS 
M'Coy, in a fit of Delirium tremens, brought on 
by drunkenness, threw himself from the rocks 
into the sea, and was drowned. Matthew 
Quintal, after threatening the lives of his com- 
panions, was killed by Young and Adams, who, 
in 1799, took away his life with an axe in self- 
defence. Thus, six of the mutineers were mur- 
dered, and one committed suicide. Edward 
Young died of asthma, in 1800. Adams, as has 
been seen, was severely wounded in one of the 
contests which took place, but recovered. Only 
two of the fifteen men who had landed from the 
Bounty (Young and Adams) died a natural 
death. 
Here we may pause to reflect on the unhappy 
lives and dreadful deaths of men who had been 
guilty of a very heinous offence against the laws 
of God and man. Though Christian, when settled 
at Pitcairn, often wore a cheerful countenance 
and easy manner, there is reason to believe that 
the remembrance of the past was deeply painful 
to him, and that shame and remorse, mingled 
with the fear of detection, weighed heavily on 
his mind. On the top of a high rock is a spot 
which was called his " look-out." Whilst many 
hearts, thousands of miles off, were wounded, if 
not broken, by suspense and uncertainty re- 
specting his fate, and that of his companions, he 
was either employed in surveying the ocean 
around him, under the apprehension of the ap- 
proach of the officers of justice, or in endeavour- 
ing to control the turbulent community among 
whom he had irrevocably cast his lot. 
It may be observed, that punishment in this 
