SHIPS OF WAR VISIT PITCAIRN - LETTER OF CAPTAIN WOOD, R.N. ARRIVAL OF REAR-ADMIRAL FAIRFAX MORESBY — H.M.S. ' PORT- LAND' AT PITCAIRN ISLAND-MR. NOBBS PROCEEDS TO ENGLAND 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 — RECEPTION 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 W. DENISON-HIS OPINION OF THE PITCAIRN PEOPLE - DIREC- TIONS RELATIVE TO LIVE STOCK, AND THE CULTIVATION OF LAND LETTER FROM JANE NOBBS VISIT OF SIR J. YOUNG - ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MELANESIAN MISSION COLLEGE ON NOR- PRIVATIONS OF THE PITCAIRN COLONY - REMARKABLE WHALING ADVENTURE PROGRESS OF THE MELANESIAN MISSION AND COLLEGE IN NORFOLK ISLAND ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILIES LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PART I. Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island, drawn by Captain Beechey, R.N... Frontispiece. General Chart (Southern Ocean), Captain Becher, R.N. Destruction of H.M.S. 'Pandora,' Daybreak, August 29, 1791. On a Sandy Islet, Noon, August 29, 1791, drawn by P. Heywood. To face p. 13 PART II. Rev. G. H. Nobbs, photographed by Glen Wilson .. Maria Christian, Ellen Quintal, and Sarah McCoy, photographed by Glen Wilson .. Naomi Nobbs and Jane Nobbs, photographed by Fortescue Moresby Landing Place (Sydney Bay), Norfolk Island, by Glen Wilson } THE MUTINEERS OF THE 'BOUNTY,' AND THEIR DESCENDANTS IN PITCAIRN AND NORFOLK ISLANDS. PART FIRST. CHAPTER I. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCHES IN THE SOUTH SEAS - DISCOVERY OF OTAHEITE - OBJECT OF THE COMMISSION OF THE BOUNTY' · INTRODUCTORY NOTICES OF HER OFFICERS: LIEUTENANT BLIGH FLETCHER CHRISTIAN - GEORGE STEWART HEYWOOD. PETER THE termination of a long French war by the Treaty of Paris in 1763 was hailed with universal satisfaction. Weary of the toils and burdens of warlike enterprise, men were anxious to turn their minds to the arts of peace, and England was foremost among the nations in a desire to promote the interests of science and commerce. The prosecution of maritime discovery was especially adapted to the genius of her people, and the King, George III., who had just succeeded to the throne, encouraged the equipment of expeditions which had for their object the advancement of geography. He had himself acquired considerable proficiency in this his favourite study, and possessed a large and valuable collection of maps and chartsthe best that existed 100 years ago. They would, however, have formed a singular contrast to those B |