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furniture, consisting of beds laid upon bedsteads, 
with neat coverings : they had also tables, and 
large chests to contain their valuables and 
clothing, which is made from the bark of a 
certain tree, prepared chiefly by the elder Ota- 
heitan females. Adams's house consisted of two 
rooms, and the windows had shutters to pull to 
at night. The younger part of the sex are, as 
before stated, employed with their brothers, 
under the direction of Adams, in the culture of 
the ground, which produced cocoa-nuts, bananas, 
the bread-fruit-tree, yams, sweet potatoes, and 
turnips. They have also plenty of hogs and 
goats; the woods abound with a species of wild 
hog, and the coasts of the island with several 
kinds of good fish. 
" Their agricultural implements are made by 
themselves, from the iron supplied by the Bounty, 
which with great labour they beat out into 
spades, hatchets, &c. This was not all. The 
old man kept a regular journal, in which was 
entered the nature and quantity of work per- 
formed by each family, what each had received, 
and what was due on account. There was, it 
seemed, besides private property, a sort of general 
stock, out of which articles were issued on ac- 
count to the several members of the community; 
and, for mutual accommodation, exchanges of 
one kind of provision for another were very fre- 
quent, as salt for fresh provisions, vegetables and 
fruit for poultry, fish, &c. ; also, when the stores 
of one family were low, or wholly expended, a 
fresh supply was raised from another, or out of 
