The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-06

At last an American ship, the Topaz
Captain Marian Folger, in the month OF
lSeptember, 1903, stood in for water, and
boats crew was landed upon Pitcairn
They learned from Alexander Smith,
who had changed his name to John
Adams, and who was then the sole sur
vivor fthe mutineers, the story Of their
life upon the island--a story sad enough
to have satisfied the vengeful feelings OF
Lieutenant Bligh Christian and four
of the other Englishmen had been slain,
three wears after the occuD patton of Pit,
cairn, man afray with the Tahitians.
All the Tahiti men were subsequently,
assassinated. Two others Of the mutt
neers having succeeded in diStiIling an
Intoxicating liquor from a root found
upon the island. persisted from the effect
of it. One threw himself, in fit of
deE5rtUna trsnae1as. from precipice His
two remaining companions were com
PEELED to kill the other in self defence
And now change came over the colony.
Henccfor5h the annals of the island were
never to be stained by crime A Reform
alton was wrought IN the lives and con
duct Of the inhabitants which transform
ed their settlement into garden of peace
and purity, change little short OF II
miracle, the work Of u Bible and u PRAYER
Book which had been left ampng CHRIS
tian's effects.
Smiths sole white companion, Edward
Young, who had been midshipman on
the Bounty, was a nephew of Sir George
Young, Bart, and had enjoyed the ben
eft of early religious training, he united
readily with Smith (John Adams) in in
structing the Tahitian women, and the
children of the intermarriages with them,
in the precepts of Christianity, and with
such happy success that in the lapse of
time there was not on the globe people
so simple minded, and affectionate as the
people of Pitcairn's Island. But in 1900
Young had died of asthma, and Adams
became "the sole surviving man on the
island, and the only guardian and teach.
ers Of helpless women and young chill
dren." ob oD %
The Topaz reported the discovery of
the colony on Pitcairn's Island, and the
news awakened public curiosity for the
|coald not be spared for a voyage to the
Pacific, no steps were taken to prosecute
further inquiries, and the interest," in the
matter again subsidized. 58pa
And so the children grew to manhood
and womanhood, and lntermarried, and
lived virtuous lives remote from civiliza.
and and its vices, engirdled by the sea.
No want was there of human sustenance.
Soft frulGage, mighty nuts aud nourishing
roots.
Nor, save for pity, was it hard to take
The helpless life SO wild it was so tame.
There in a seaward-gazing mountain gorge
They built and thatch'd with leaves of palm,
their huts,
Half hut, palf native cavern. SO the tribe,
Set in this Eden of all Righteousness,
Dwelt with eternal summer.
A few years after the visit of the To
paz, two English frigates, in search of
the American ship-of war Essex, touched
at Pitcairn's Island-the Britain, Capt
Staines, and the Tagus, Capt. Pipon. As
they stood off share" two men were
seen rapidly descending to the
shore, with canoes on their shoulders
One OF these, canoes was boldly launched
among the breakersand then dexterously
padded through the surf alongside OF
the Britain. "Won't you heave US a
rope now? was the request from the ca.
noe, and Il rope being thrown out imme
diately, a fine young man sprang actively
on the deck. His athletic figure was
quantity attired in vest without sleeves
and trowsers to the knee; and he wore a
hat jauntily decked with black cocks
| feathers. He answered the question
Who are you 2 with an ingenious frank
ness: am Thursday October Christian
son of Fletcher Christian, the mu ,ineer
10y q Tahitian mother, and the first born
on this island
"The handsome youth accompanied
him was Edward Young, son of the mid
shipman of that name IN the Bounty, and
was IS years of age. Thursday October
| Christian, was, of course, named after
the day and month of his birth He had
attained the age of a. and vas married
to Susannah, widow Of Edward Young
and one of the few survivors of the Tahi-
tian women, who had sailed in the Bounty
to Pitcairn. Here, at length, was Pit
cairn Island, the asylum for mutineers
They, as we'll as Fogler, had approached
it unexpectedly; for Captain Carteret
who, as we have said, discovered the is
land in 1867, had placed it on the chart
three degrees out OF its true longitude.
The robust appearance and height OF
the two young men, especially those OF
Thursday October Christian, were very
striking. His jet-black hair flowed
down his shoulders, and although his
complexion was dark, and much tanned
from exposure, in neither Young nor him.
self was there the red tinge of skin 81,
common among the Pacific islands. The
department of these young men, their
whole bearing, their easy, natural man
ners, which as much removed from undue
familiarity as from all conventional shy
ness and restraint, interested every one