124 CAUSES OF ALARM. 
well-grounded hope that the rising generation 
would fear God, and keep His commandments. 
Looking at the improved condition of the people, 
just previously to his death, which happened in 
March, 1829, when he was sixty-five years of 
age, he might well have been gladdened by the 
prospect of the continuance among them of those 
firm and solid principles of true religion, which 
had been fixed upon a sure foundation, and 
which form a topic of honourable mention at 
this very time. 
Much of Adams's trouble and anxiety m 
former years naturally arose from the fear ot 
being discovered and taken. In May, 1795, he 
and. his brother mutineers, having observed a 
ship nearing the island, in their terror hid 
themselves in the bush. Having, after some 
time, cautiously left their place of concealment, 
they proceeded to the beach, where they found a 
knife, and a few cocoa-nut shells, proving that 
some persons had landed. The visitors, how- 
ever, it would seem, had not noticed any signs of 
houses, and had therefore left the island without 
further search. 
