CHAPTER VII.

Court-martial. -Correspondence of Members of Peter Heywood's Family.

-Acquittal of some of the Crew.-Pardon of Peter Heywood and

James Morrison.—Execution of two Prisoners.—Subsequent Career of

Captain Bligh and other Officers of the Bounty.-Death of Miss Nessy

Heywood.......

..Page 117

PART II.

CHAPTER I.

Position of the Mutineers.--Arrival at Pitcairn Island.-Destruction of

the Bounty.--Death of Fletcher Christian, Edward Young, and others.

-Alexander Smith (John Adams) sole Survivor......

153

CHAPTER II.

Discovery of the Retreat of the Mutineers.—Visits of Captain Folger and

others.-Arrival of John Buffett.-John Evans.-G. H. Nobbs.-Death

of John Adams.....

161

CHAPTER III.

George Hunn Nobbs succeeds John Adams as Pastor of Pitcairn Island.

-Emigration to Tahiti. Return. -Arrival of Joshua Hill. -Arbitrary

Proceedings. -Joshua Hill removed from Pitcairn

178

CHAPTER IV.

Ships of War visit Pitcairn.-Letter of Captain Wood, R.N.—Arrival

of Baron Thierry and others.—Aboriginal Inhabitants of Pitcairn

Island....

196

CHAPTER V.

Arrival of Rear-admiral Fairfax Moresby.-H.M.S. Portland at Pitcairn

Island.-Mr. Nobbs proceeds to England. - His Ordination as Chap-

lain.— Return to Pitcairn.—Death of Reuben Nobbs............... 218

CHAPTER VI.

Removal of the Pitcairn Islanders to Norfolk Island.—Directions of his

Excellency, Sir William Denison, K.C.B., respecting Allotments of

Land.-Correspondence. — Voyage.- Arrival at Norfolk Island.—Re-

ception by Captain Denham, H.M.S. Herald.—Visit of Bishop and

Mrs. Selwyn, and of the Rev. G. N. Patteson...

249

CHAPTER VII.

Correspondence of Rev. G. H. Nobbs with Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby, -

K.C.B., relative to Norfolk Island and the Whale-fishery.–Visit of

His Excellency Sir William Denison.-His Opinion of the Pitcairn

People.—Directions relative to Live-stock, and the Cultivation of Land.

-Letter from Jane Nobbs. — Visit of Sir John Young.–Bishop Patte-

son attacked by the Natives of Santa Cruz.—Massacre of Fisher Young

and Edwin Nobbs.....

..Page 284

CHAPTER VIII.

Establishment of the Melanesian Mission College on Norfolk Island. —

Letters from the Bishop of New Zealand, Sir William Denison, Sir John

Young, etc., etc..

309

CHAPTER IX.

Privations of the Pitcairn Colony.-Remarkable Whaling-adventure. —

Progress of the Melanesian Mission and College on Norfolk Island. -

Account of the Families who returned to Pitcairn Island, by Captain

Montresor, R.N., and Sir Wentworth Dilke.....

331

APPENDIX A......

365

APPENDIX B...

373

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PART I.

Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island, drawn

Frontispiece. by Captain Beechey, R.N........ General Chart (Southern Ocean), Captain Becher, R.N............... 24 Destruction of H.M.S. Pandora, Daybreak, August 29, 1791.......

109 On a Sandy Islet, Noon, August 29,

1791, drawn by P. Heywood.......

PART II.

Rev. G. H. Nobbs ..

179

227

263

Maria Christian, Ellen Quintal, and Sarah M'Koy........
Landing-place (Sydney Bay), Norfolk Island..
Pitcairn Settlement (Sydney Bay), Norfolk Island.....
Interior of Norfolk Island..........

275

..... 288

Naomi Nobbs and Jane Nobbs......

296