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mariners, who, unable to procure food or water, 
had lain down to die. 
The women, in the same year in which they 
had endeavoured to quit Pitcairn, deliberately 
planned the destruction of the four men left 
among them. This dreadful plot was discovered 
in time by the men, and a partial and suspicious 
peace was brought about. 
But other horrors remained behind. In 1798, 
M'Coy, in a fit of delirium tremens, brought on 
by drunkenness, having thrown himself from 
the rocks into the sea, was drowned. Quintall, 
a violent and headstrong man, after threatening 
the lives of his companions, was killed by 
Young and Adams, who, in 1799, took away 
his life with an axe in self-defence. Thus, six 
of the mutineers were murdered, and one com- 
mitted suicide. Edward Young died of asthma, 
in 1800. Adams had been severely wounded 
in one of the contests that took place, but -had 
recovered. Only two of the fifteen men who 
had landed from the Bounty (Young and Adams) 
died a natural death. 
Here we may pause to reflect on the unhappy 
lives and dreadful deaths of men who had been 
guilty of a very heinous offence against the laws 
of God and man. Though Christian, when 
fixed at Pitcairn, often wore a cheerful counte- 
nance and manner, there is reason to believe that 
the remembrance of the past was deeply painful 
to him, and that shame and remorse, mingled 
with the fear of detection, weighed heavily on 
his mind. On the top of a high rock is a spot 
which he called his " look-out." Whilst many 
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