CHAPTER V. 
THE CHRONOMETER OF THE BOUNTY — DESCRIPTION OF THE 
STATE OF PITCAIRN IN 1814, AND SUBSEQUENT YEARS — 
ACCOUNT GIVEN BY SIR THOMAS STAINES — BY ADMIRAL 
BEECHEY — EMIGRATION TO OTAHEITE IN 1831 — QUEEN 
POMARE — HER LETTER TO QUEEN VICTORIA. 
On Captain Mayhew Folger's departure from 
Pitcairn, after his visit there in 1808, in the 
American ship Topaz, he carried away a Ken- 
dall's chronometer, and an azimuth compass, 
both of which had belonged to the Bounty, In 
a letter to the Lords of the Admiralty, dated 
Nantucket, March 1st, 1813, Folger stated that 
the " time-keeper " and compass had been pre- 
sented to him, on his leaving the island, by 
John Adams. He added that this time-keeper, 
after being in his possession about six weeks, 
had been taken from him by the governor of the 
island of Juan Fernandez. The compass he 
forwarded to their Lordships. 
The time-keeper, or chronometer, had been, 
previously to this, twice carried out by Captain 
Cook, in his voyages of discovery. In 1776, 
when the Resolution was in the course of equip- 
ment for her voyage, " The Board of Longitude 
put into the possession of Captain Cook, and 
Mr. King, his second lieutenant, the time-keeper 
