sually experienced in doubling Cape Horn in a more
advanced season of the year, and I had the good fortune not to be
disappointed in my expectation.

After doubling the Cape, and advancing Northward into warmer weather, the
fever which had prevailed on board gradually declined, and the diseases
usually succeeding such fevers prevented by a liberal use of the
antiscorbutics and other nourishing and useful articles with which we
were so amply supplied, and the ship's company arrived at Otaheite in
perfect health, except a few whose debilitated constitutions no climate,
provisions or medicine could much improve.

In our run to Otaheite we discovered 3 islands: the first, which I called
Ducie's Island, lies in Latitude 24 deg. 40' 30" S. and Longitude 124 deg. 36'
30" W. from Greenwich. It is between 2 and 3 miles long. The second I
called Lord Hood's Island. It lies in Latitude 21 deg. 31' S. and Longitude
135 deg. 32' 30" W., and is about 8 miles long. The third I called
Carysfort's Island. It lies in Latitude 20 deg. 49' S. and Longitude 138 deg. 33'
W. and it is 5 miles long. They are all three low lagoon islands covered
with wood, but we saw no inhabitants on either of them.[30-1] Before we
anchored at Matavy Bay, Joseph Coleman, Armourer of the _Bounty_, and
several of the natives came on board, from whom I learned that Christian
the pirate had landed and left 16 of his men on the Island, some of whom
were then at Matavy, and some had sailed from there the morning before
our arrival (in a schooner they had built) for Papara, a distant part of
the Island, to join other of the pirates that were settled at that place,
and that Churchill, Master at Arms, had been murdered by Matthew
Thompson, and that Matthew Thompson was killed by the natives and offered
as a sacrifice on their altars for the murder of Churchill, whom they had
made a chief.

George Stewart and Peter Heywood, midshipmen of the _Bounty_, came on
board the _Pandora_ soon after she came to an anchor, and I had also
information that Richard Skinner was at Matavy. I desired Poen, an
inferior chief (who, in the absence of Otoo, was the principal person in
the district) to bring him on board. The chief went on shore for the
purpose, and soon after he returned again and informed me that Skinner
was coming on board. Before night he did come on board, but whether it
was in consequence of the chief's instructions, or his own accord, I am
at a loss to say. As soon