CHAPTEE V. 
THE CHRONOMETER OF THE BOUNTY DESCRIPTION OF THE 
STATE OF PITCAIRN IN 1814, AND SUBSEQUENT YEARS- 
ACCOUNT GIVEN BY SIR THOMAS STAINES BY CAPTAIN 
BEECHEY EMIGRATION TO OTAHEITE IN 1831 QUEEN 
POMARE HER LETTER TO QUEEN VICTORIA. 
ON Captain Mayhew Folger's departure from 
Pitcairn, after his visit there in 1808, in the 
American ship Topaz, he carried away a Ken- 
dall's chronometer, and an azimuth compass, 
both of which had belonged to the Bounty. 
In a letter to the Lords of the Admiralty, dated 
Nantucket, March 1st, 1813, Folger stated that 
the " time-keeper," and compass had been pre- 
sented to him, on his leaving the island, by 
Alexander Smith (John Adams). He added 
that this time-keeper, after being in his pos- 
session about six weeks, had been taken from 
him by the governor of the island of Juan 
Fernandez. The compass he forwarded to their 
Lordships. 
Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B., M.P. for 
Dartmouth, in whose possession the chronometer 
now is, has favoured the author not only with a 
sight of this curious relic, but with some re- 
markable particulars of its history. From these 
particulars, it appears that this time-keeper had 
