STATE OF SOCIETY AT PITCAIEN. 103 
done with fatal precision. This woman, Susan- 
nah, who afterwards married Thursday October 
Christian, Fletcher Christian's son, died at an 
advanced age in the year 1850. She was the 
last survivor of the Bounty. 
The sanguinary frays among the members of 
the small body of inhabitants, from the time of 
their landing, to 1794, have been described at 
different times. These painful particulars shall 
be passed over. One point, however, connected 
with the murders deserves mention, as it may 
serve to clear up some doubt regarding the death 
of Fletcher Christian. As the spot in which he 
was buried on the island is not known, and as 
a person resembling him was seen, about the 
year 1809, in Fore Street, Plymouth, by Captain 
Peter Heywood, who imagined, from a transient 
view, that the stranger was Fletcher Christian 
himself, an impression in some quarters prevailed, 
that he had escaped the massacre of 1793, and 
had returned to England. It seems that the 
stranger, as if recognised, had fled from Captain 
Heywood, who, after pursuing him for some 
distance in vain, felt persuaded that he had seen 
Christian. But the manuscript documents of the 
island are stated by Captain Beechey to be clear 
upon this matter. In 1794, when only four men, 
Young, M'Coy, Adams, and Quintall, were left, 
alive, the women of the place were seen holding 
in their hands the Jive skulls of the murdered 
white men. They were compelled, after some 
difficulty, to give up the heads to be buried. 
In that year the state of the island had 
become so intolerable to the women, that they 
