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Recent accounts of the Pitcairn Islanders

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westward of the Hydaspes and to the eastward of Lahore, where  

they are said to predominate, they do not certainly compose third  

of the population. The Punjab, indeed, is poorly-peopled  

country in proportion to its fertility, though it is probable that it  

has increased in population under the present ruler.  

X.— Recent Accounts of the Pitcairn Islanders. Communicated  

by John Barrow, Esq., F.R.S. Read 10th June, 1833.  

As the public have not ceased to take great interest in the  

little colony of Pitcairn’s Island, though no account of its proceed-  

ings has been published since that given in the Narrative of  

Captain Beechey’s Voyage, the following extracts from official  

documents regarding it will probably be found interesting. The  

first is from private Journal kept by the Honourable Captain  

Waldegrave, who visited the island in H.M.S. Seringapatam, in  

1830, shortly before its inhabitants were induced to emigrate to  

Otaheite. The second is despatch addressed to the Lieutenant-  

Governor of New South Wales, by Captain Sandilands, of H.M.  

sloop Comet, who was employed to remove them. The remainder  

describe them since their return.  

Pitcairn's Island March, 1830. —We arrived here in the Se-  

ringapatam on Monday the 15th March, 1830, about seven  

o’clock soon after eight, Edward Young, native, came along-  

side in small canoe guided by one paddle he wore European  

waistcoat and trowsers, and breakfasted with me, saying grace  

before and after. About nine several others came on board in  

jolly boat; the senior native, Thursday October Fletcher Christian,  

was one. After breakfast many of them accompanied us to the  

shore we landed about noon. At the top of the first level,  

seated in grove of cocoa-nut trees, were assembled many of the  

wives and mothers. “ have brought you clergyman.”—“ God  

bless you, God bless you!” was the universal answer. “To stay  

with us ” —“ No!" “ You bad man, why not ” — cannot  

spare him, he is the clergyman of my ship. have brought you  

clothes, which King George sends you.” “We rather want food  

for our souls,” &c. The welcome was most affecting; the wives  

met their husbands and greeted them with joy as if they had  

long been absent; —they received us most cordially, but more  

particularly the chaplain, Mr. Watson, —the men sprung up to  

the trees, throwing down cocoa-nuts, and tearing off the husks with  

their teeth, offered us the milk. When we had rested they took  

us to their cottages, where we dined and slept.  

In the evening we walked to see Christian’s and Adams’s graves.  

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