CHAPTER VI. 
RETURN OP THE PITCAIRN EMIGRANTS TO THEIR ISLAND IN 
1833 — POPULATION OP PITCAIRN — THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 
— ACCIDENT ON THE ISLAND — LOYALTY OP THE ISLANDERS 
— THEIR RULES AND CUSTOMS — THE ISLANDERS' DAY AT 
PITCAIRN — RECEPTION OF VESSELS TOUCHING AT THE ISLAND 
— HOSPITALITY TO STRANGERS— MR. CARLETON'S MUSICAL 
CLASS. 
The Pitcairn emigrants did not remain long at 
Otaheite. Their health suffered in the new cli- 
mate ; and the licentious habits of the place proved 
distasteful to that well-ordered Christian commu- 
nity. It was owing to this, as well as to the 
love of country, which is a powerful principle at 
Pitcairn, that the people soon found their way 
back to their own home. When the British 
ship Challenger touched at Otaheite in 1833, 
it appeared that all whom death had spared had 
returned to Pitcairn. Some had yielded to the 
temptations to intemperance. Sickness also had 
become prevalent among them, and had carried 
off twelve. Five died almost immediately after 
their return home. 
It was partly in consequence of the failure of 
the scheme of emigration of 1831, and partly 
from the fear of interrupting the happy state in 
which the people had so long lived on their be- 
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