100 LANDING OF NINE MUTINEERS AND OTHERS. 
hatchets, and spear-heads of very hard stone, 
and a large stone bowl, were discovered. The 
mutineers also met, on the east side of the island, 
with certain uncouth carvings of the sun, moon, 
stars, a bird, men, &c. in a cavern situate in the 
face of a cliff. 
There are some inaccuracies in the narrative 
forwarded by Captain Folger, in his letter of 
March 1, 1813, respecting his visit to the island. 
He stated that about six years after the arrival 
of the nine mutineers, the Otaheitans had killed 
all the Englishmen, except Smith, who was 
severely w r ounded ; and that on the same night 
the Otaheitan widows had risen, and murdered 
all their countrymen, leaving only Smith, with 
the widows and children. His account may be 
corrected by the following statement : 
After getting rid of Mr. Bligh, and his crew, 
the mutineers sailed from Toubouai, an island 
about 500 miles south of Otaheite, where they 
intended to land; but the natives refusing to 
admit them, they proceeded to Otaheite. A 
second ineffectual attempt at settling having 
been made on Toubouai, and a refuge having 
again been found, for a short time, at Otaheite, 
Christian and eight of his comrades left for 
Pitcairn, in the Bounty, with certain Otaheitans, 
the rest of the mutineers remaining at Otaheite. 
It happened that Carteret's description of Pit- 
cairn, had been on board the Bounty ; and this 
probably determined Christian in his choice. 
Carteret, however, as will have been seen, was 
wrong in his description of the latitude and 
longitude of the island. 
