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THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY AND THE
Fix this textPICTAIRN ISLANDERS.
Fix this textDown in the loneliness o£ the Southern Seas lies Pitcairn Island, a
Fix this textpicturesque spot in the open ocean, with a history whose freshness
Fix this textis ever green. Who the Pitcairn Islanders are few really know.
Fix this textTo most, indeed, the island is only a name, at all events it is not
Fix this textgenerally known how interesting and romantic is the tale of the
Fix this textorigin and career of those lonely dwellers on that rock-bound isle,
Fix this textfar removed from intercourse with their fellow-beings, and visited
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Fix this texteven to the present day at rare intervals only by trading or mission-
Fix this textary vessels. Like a dream of the past is the Mutiny of the Bounty.
Fix this textThe mutineers have all passed away long years ago, and Lieutenant
Fix this textBligh has gone to his account; but the descendants of these
Fix this textmutineers now inhabit Pitcairn Island, and form an interesting
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Fix this textrelic of one of the most eventful chapters of colonisation. The
Fix this texthistory of Pitcairn Island is, indeed, like a tale of Utopia, gentle
Fix this textas Ponce de Leon’s romance of the fountains of perpetual youth,
Fix this textand more authentic than those pictured islands of the blest which
Fix this textthe mediaeval seamen were fabled to have sighted in the “ region of
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Fix this textA little less than 100 years ago, soon after the South Sea Islands
Fix this textwere discovered, it was thought that it would be advantageous to
Fix this textnaturalise the bread-fruit and other plants in the West Indies, and
Fix this textLieutenant Bligh was despatched in the Bounty to collect these.
Fix this textThe vessel appears to have touched at Otaheite, where the seamen
Fix this textseem to have become greatly demoralised. They were chiefly
Fix this textthe off-scourings of the English seaport towns, and almost at any
Fix this texttime were ready for desperate deeds, and Lieutenant Bligh by his
Fix this texttreatment of them hastened the outbreak of a mutiny that had
Fix this textbeen long smouldering. There is little doubt that he was sullen
Fix this textand cruel, not at all an inapt prototype of that captain of the
Fix this textPoet Laureate’s creation, who was punished by his men in the
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