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holds good to this day, since they still continue “ to live 
together in perfect harmony and contentment; to be 
virtuous, religious, cheerful, and hospitable ; to be patterns 
of conjugal and parental affection, and to have very few 
vices.” Admiral De Horsey concludes by saying, that no 
one acquainted with these islanders could fail to respect 
them, and that they will lose rather than gain by contact 
with other communities. 
Although the island was quite uninhabited when the 
mutineers of the Bounty arrived there, many remains 
show that a considerable population must once have lived 
on it. Burial-places, large flat paving-stones, stone spear¬ 
heads and axes, round stone balls, and even stone images, 
sufficiently prove that this remote speck of land had not 
only been visited by stray savages, but had been the 
settled abode of a considerable population, who yet had 
time to devote to the carving of stone images with tools of 
the same material. 
10. The Marquesas. 
North of the Low Archipelago, and about 900 miles 
from Tahiti, are situated the Marquesas, consisting of eleven 
chief islands, of which seven are inhabited. They are 
divided into two groups—a north-westerly, comprising 
Uapu, Uahuka, Nukahiva and Eiau; and a south-eastern, 
of which Tauata, Fatuhiva, and Hiva-oa are the chief. 
They have a total area of some 500 square miles, and a 
population which has been very variously estimated, but 
is probably over 6000. They were first seen by Mendana 
in 1595, but the N.W. group was not discovered till 
nearly 200 years later. 
The Marquesas, which are all of volcanic origin, re¬ 
semble the Navigators’ group in their general appearance 
