70 CHURCHILL AND THOMPSON. 
two years, namely, Joseph Coleman, Peter Hey- 
wood, and George Stewart, came on board the 
Pandora, and surrendered themselves to the law. 
They were received with all the sternness of 
offended justice, and instantly put in irons. The 
captain succeeded in taking eleven others at 
Otaheite, who were also carefully ironed. 
Two of the mutineers, Churchill and Thomp- 
son, who had landed with the rest at Otaheite, 
were no longer in existence when Captain 
Edwards arrived. The history of these two men 
has a dreadful kind of interest belonging to it. 
Within a short period of their quitting the 
Bounty, one of them, the ship's corporal, had 
become a king, and both had been murdered ! 
Churchill, after residing a short time at Mata- 
vai, accepted an invitation to live with Walieea- 
dooa, who was sovereign of Teirraboo when 
Captain Cook last visited that place, Thompson 
accompanied Churchill thither; but they very 
soon disagreed. Waheeadooa dying without 
children, Churchill, who had been his tyo, or 
chief friend, succeeded to his dignity and pro- 
perty, according to the established custom of 
the country. Thompson, envious of Churchill's 
honours, and angry at some fancied insult, took 
an opportunity of shooting him. The natives rose 
to punish the murderer of their new sovereign, 
and stoned Thompson to death. This wicked 
man had been guilty of murdering a man and 
a child, but had then escaped punishment, in 
consequence of the difficulty of identifying his 
person. Peter Heywood had been mistaken for 
him, and was on the point of being destroyed 
