The mutiny of the Bounty and the Pitcairn Islanders / [W. H. Dick]

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THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY AND THE  

PICTAIRN ISLANDERS.  

Down in the loneliness o£ the Southern Seas lies Pitcairn Island,  

picturesque spot in the open ocean, with history whose freshness  

is ever green. Who the Pitcairn Islanders are few really know.  

To most, indeed, the island is only name, at all events it is not  

generally known how interesting and romantic is the tale of the  

origin and career of those lonely dwellers on that rock-bound isle,  

far removed from intercourse with their fellow-beings, and visited  

 

even to the present day at rare intervals only by trading or mission-  

ary vessels. Like dream of the past is the Mutiny of the Bounty.  

The mutineers have all passed away long years ago, and Lieutenant  

Bligh has gone to his account; but the descendants of these  

mutineers now inhabit Pitcairn Island, and form an interesting  

 

relic of one of the most eventful chapters of colonisation. The  

history of Pitcairn Island is, indeed, like tale of Utopia, gentle  

as Ponce de Leon’s romance of the fountains of perpetual youth,  

and more authentic than those pictured islands of the blest which  

the mediaeval seamen were fabled to have sighted in the “ region of  

the sunset.”  

little less than 100 years ago, soon after the South Sea Islands  

were discovered, it was thought that it would be advantageous to  

naturalise the bread-fruit and other plants in the West Indies, and  

Lieutenant Bligh was despatched in the Bounty to collect these.  

The vessel appears to have touched at Otaheite, where the seamen  

seem to have become greatly demoralised. They were chiefly  

the off-scourings of the English seaport towns, and almost at any  

time were ready for desperate deeds, and Lieutenant Bligh by his  

treatment of them hastened the outbreak of mutiny that had  

been long smouldering. There is little doubt that he was sullen  

and cruel, not at all an inapt prototype of that captain of the  

Poet Laureate’s creation, who was punished by his men in the  

Vol. V.—No. 29.  

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