h the whole of
their number alive, with the exception of the one man who was stoned to
death by the savages at Tofoa.

_THE PITCAIRN ISLANDERS_

IT will be remembered that nothing had been heard of the 'Bounty' since
she was seen off Point Venus on the morning of September 22, 1789.

In 1809, just twenty years after, when Captain Folger, of the American
ship 'Topaz,' landed at Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote of the
islands in the Pacific, he found there a solitary Englishman and five
Otaheitan women and nineteen children. The man, who gave his name as
Alexander Smith, said he was the only remaining person of the nine who
had escaped in the 'Bounty.'

Although this information was given to the Admiralty shortly after, it
was not until the year 1814, when the 'Briton,' under the command of Sir
Thomas Staines, and the 'Tagus,' under that of Captain Pipon, were
cruising in the Pacific, that one day on which the ships were sailing in
the same direction about six leagues apart, both commanders were greatly
surprised to see an island in lat. 24 deg. 40' and long. 130 deg. 24' W.

They were puzzled to know what it could be, as Pitcairn Island (named
after a son of Major Pitcairn who was lost in the 'Aurora'), the only
one known in the neighbourhood, was marked on their charts as in long.
133 deg. 24' W., more than three degrees out.

They thought they had made a new discovery, and as they ran in for the
land they were astonished to see some neatly-built huts surrounded by
gardens and plantations.

Some people were seen coming down the cliff with canoes on their
shoulders. Presently one was launched and made off through the heavy
surf towards the ships. They were more surprised than ever when one of
the young men in it cried out in English as they came alongside, 'Won't
you heave us a rope, now?'

He sprang up the side of the ship swiftly. When on deck he told Sir
Thomas Staines and Captain Pipon, when they asked him who he was, that
his name was Thursday October Christian, and that he was the son of the
late Fletcher Christian by an Otaheitan mother; that he was the first
born on the island, and his name was given him as he had been born on a
Thursday in October. He was now twenty-four years of age, and had a fine
muscular figure, dark hair, and a brownish complexion, and 'in his
good-natured and benevolent countenance he had all the features of an
honest English face.' He wore no clothing except a smal