CHAPTER IV. 
CHRISTIAN AND HIS PARTY PITCAIRN*S ISLAND FOLGER's 
ACCOUNT LANDING OF NINE MUTINEERS AND OF OTAHEI- 
TANS AT PITCAIRN DREADFUL DEATHS OF CHRISTIAN AND 
OTHERS INTOLERABLE STATE OF SOCIETY AT PITCAIRN 
INTEMPERANCE REPENTANCE AND REFORMATION OF ADAMS 
HIS SERVICES IN THE CAUSE OF RELIGION AND MORALITY 
IN THE ISLAND. 
NOTHING more was heard of Christian and his 
party, until twenty years had passed from the 
date of the mutiny ; when Sir Sidney Smith, 
then commander-in-chief on the Brazil station, 
informed the Admiralty, from Rio Janeiro, that 
Captain Folger, of the ship Topaz, of Boston, 
United States, on landing on Pitcairn's Island, 
in 1808, had found an Englishman, named 
Alexander Smith, the only person remaining 
of nine that had sailed thither in the Bounty. 
Smith, otherwise John Adams, (he having on 
.first entering the service, assumed the name of 
Alexander Smith,) related, that after putting 
Bligh into the boat, Christian, with the other 
mutineers, had gone to Otaheite, where all hands 
remained, but Christian, Smith, and seven others ; 
that each had taken an Otaheitan wife, and then 
proceeded to Pitcairn, where they had made good 
a landing, and afterwards destroyed the Bounty. 
Before they were discovered by Captain Fol- 
ger, in September, 1803, two ships had been 
seen from the island. A boat from one landed, 
