Transcriber’s Notes Hyphenation has been standardised. Changes made are noted at the end of the book. In the Text version of the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of the book, the = around the words, e.g. =Pitcairn= indicates bold. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number] instead of the letter A which was used throughout the book. The hand-drawn chapter header illustrations have been replicated as shown in the original. [Illustration: PITCAIRN ISLAND.] Mutiny of the Bounty and Story of Pitcairn Island 1790-1894 By Rosalind Amelia Young A Native Daughter _Seventh Printing_ PUBLISHED BY PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSN. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL. Kansas City, Mo.——Calgary, Alberta——Portland, Ore. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1894, by PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TO CLARA FREEMAN CROCKER, OF AMERICA, LAURA P. WHITE, OF ENGLAND, And to the many dear friends who have ever shown an interest in the history of Pitcairn Island, this little work is AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED by the Author. INTRODUCTION. Many books have been written on the history of Pitcairn Island, while magazine articles and newspaper sketches almost without number have appeared from time to time, treating on some feature of the island or its history. While there are some points of disagreement between the different writers, they have in the main given a fairly good history of the island, and of its condition many years ago, though some of their statements have been somewhat exaggerated. That it is inevitable that some errors should creep into such histories may be clearly seen from the fact that very few of the writers have ever visited the island, while those who have done so, remained but a short time, and so could see but one side of life on that isolated spot. The present work is written by a native of the island, and one who has practically spent her whole life on the island, a few years of her childhood only having been spent on Norfolk Island. While her lifetime does not cover quite one-half of the time covered by the history of the island, she had access for many years to one at least who remembered events that occurred before the beginning of the present century. The author’s father was the second oldest man of the community at the time of his death, in September, 1893, and was a grandson of John Adams, one of the mutineers of the _Bounty_, whose death took place in 1829. She has thus had the best of advantages for obtaining a correct knowledge of the island history. The writer of this introduction spent over eighteen months on the island, leaving there February 9 of the present year, and, as far as his observation goes, believes that the statements contained in this book are strictly reliable.