134 AGRICULTURE. 
In their houses they had a good deal of decent 
furniture, consisting of beds laid upon bedsteads, 
with neat coverings : they had also tables, and 
large chests to contain their valuables and 
clothing, which is made from the bark of a 
certain tree, prepared chiefly by the elder Ota- 
heitan females. Adams's house consisted of 
two rooms, and the windows had shutters to 
pull to at night. The younger part of the sex 
are, as before stated, employed with their 
brothers, under the direction of Adams, in the 
culture of the ground, which produced cocoa- 
nuts, bananas, the bread-fruit tree, yams, sweet 
potatoes, and turnips. They have also plenty 
of hogs and goats; the woods abound with 
a species of wild hog, and the coasts of the 
island with several kinds of good fish. 
Their agricultural implements are made by 
themselves, from the iron supplied by the 
Bounty, which with great labour they beat out 
into spades, hatchets, &c. This was not all. 
The old man kept a regular journal, in which 
was entered the nature and quantity of work 
performed by each family, what each had re- 
ceived, and what was due on account. There 
was, it seemed, besides private property, a sort 
of general stock, out of which* articles were 
issued on account to the several members of the 
community; and, for mutual accommodation, 
exchanges of one kind of provision for another 
were very frequent, as salt for fresh provisions, 
vegetables and fruit for poultry, fish, &c. ; also, 
when the stores of one family were low, or 
wholly expended, a fresh supply was raised 
