60 CHURCHILL AND THOMPSON. 
last departure from the island, three of the men, 
who had remained there nearly two years, namely, 
J. Coleman, Peter Heywood, and G. Stewart, 
came on board the Pandora, and surrendered 
themselves to the law. They were received with 
all the sternness of offended justice, and instantly 
put in irons. The captain succeeded in taking 
eleven others at Otaheite, who were also care- 
fully ironed. 
Two of the mutineers, Churchill and Thomp- 
son, who had landed with the rest at Otaheite, 
were no longer in existence. The history of 
these two men has a dreadful kind of interest 
belonging to it. Within a short period of their 
quitting the Bounty, one of them, the ship's 
corporal, had become a king, and both had 
been murdered! Marshall, in his Naval Bio- 
graphy, informs us, that Churchill, after residing 
a short time at Matavai, accepted an invitation 
to live with Waheeadooa, who was sovereign of 
Teiarraboo when Captain Cook last visited that 
place. Thompson accompanied Churchill thither; 
but they very soon disagreed. Waheeadooa 
dying without children, Churchill, who had been 
his tyo, or chief friend, succeeded to his dignity 
and property, according to the established cus- 
tom of the country. Thompson, envious of 
Churchill's honours, and angry at some fancied 
insult, took an opportunity of shooting him. 
The natives rose to punish the murderer of their 
new sovereign, and stoned Thompson to death. 
This wicked man had been guilty of murdering 
a man and a child, but had then escaped punish- 
ment, in consequence of the difficulty of identi- 
