Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-05
PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.
CRIME THAT RESULTED IN THE EVo-
 LUTON OF A NEW PEOPLE.

| BIutiny on a British Man of War Leads | to the Development of New Race. 1 Its Attendant Vices.
 The ship Bounty, Dec. 23, 17s7, sailed from
 Spithead, England, bound for the South Sea- l The ship was under a commission from the British admiralty to visit the Society and other islands and collect number of the bread fruit plants, which were to be taken to
 certain of the British West Indies for the purpose of stocking those islands. The yes sel started on her homeward voyage With Lieut. Bligh in command. He was of an un-
 usually overbearing and insulting disposition. He accused Fletcher Christian, the mate. with having stolen some cocoanuts which he had bought at Otaheite, one of the islands they had visited. Christian determined to get away from the ship, and was informed by the boatswain that the crew were ready to
 mutiny. He surprised the captain ln his
 berth, made prisoner of him and took pos session of the ship. The captain and eighteen in an open boat.
 Christian, with the twenty-four others who had remained in the ship, steered for the Society Island, and sixteen of them finally decided to remain at Otaheite, while Christi ian and the rest, taking with them twelve Otaheitean women and seven men, set sail in the ship for any place that chance might take them. Nothing was heard of Christian and those who had gone on the Bounty for twenty years. At the end of that time an American ship, happening to touch at Pitcairn's Island, found there an Englishman called Alexander Smith (his name was afteward changed to John Adans), who said he was the sole sur vivor of those who had sailed on the Bounty.
 Christian, thinking the island a place where there would be little chance of their being discovered, had landed there and burned the ship. Things went smoothly for two years, when one of the men, having lost his wife, insisted on taking one of the Ota- killed three of the whites The rest of the whites, with the aid of the women, then killed all the Otaheitean men. Only four men were now left on the island. One of these succeeded in making an intoxicating liquor and drank himself to death, another one was executed by his companions, and a third died of consumption.
 Adams, now an old man, became at last impressed with the responsibility resting upon him of teaching the descendants of him. self and his companions the truths of the Bible. The result was model community. In 1880 the inhabitants moved to Norfolk Isl and, but in 1856 @ part of them returned to Pitcairn. This colony has since been remark able for the purity in which it has retained the principles inculcated by the patriarchal Adams.
 Between the years 1860 and 1880 number of ships called at the island. In 1883 the American ship Harry Mills visited the place, and one of the inhabitants, named Mccoy, accompanied the ship to Liverpool. In the same year another American ship, the Wandering Jew, stopped at the island and on leaving Capt. Talpey, the commander, took with him another one of the inhabitants This was Earnest Haywood Christian, the great grandson of Fletcher Christian. Until his arrival at Hull, England, Earnest Chris tian had never seen a house, a horse, or any quadruped. His delight and astonishment when he first saw steam engine and train were unbounded. On his arrival Christian was treated with the greatest kindness, and when he left England took with him many valuable presents for the islanders.
 Christian spent three years on the ship, visiting San Francisco, and going completely around the world before he returned to his island home. On her second visit to Pitcairn Mrs. Talpey had with her a young English girl, 17 years old. She was the youngest person who had ever visited the island, and great was the interest and admiration she excited among the girls of her own age One in particular, Miss Emily Mccoy, kept close to her all the time, asking her all man. ner of questions about the outside world.
 "You are the first girl of my own age, outside of this island, that have ever seen," she said. 'Ten me all you can. What do horse cars look likes And the churches-do you have people enough to fill themg'
 Among the island women who visited the ship on this occasion was Miss Rosalind Young, one of the most attractive and enter prising on the island. She was at this time about 8 years old had never had shoe on her foot, swan like fish, played the organ in the little island church, assisted her father in teaching the ''village school' and was the leader in everything among the women on the island. She has written an account of the island for The Century, and she told Mrs. Talpey that she never hdd an idle moment
 Another curious vein of modern civiliza- tion that has cropped out on the island is the desire for some place where one can get a rest and change from the ordinary routine of life. On an isolated island only few miles in circumference, in midocean, and containing only one village of less than 100 inhabitants, summer residences" would seem to be hardly practicable or de- sirable. Yet these people have already begun to build, little way from the main settle ment, a small Summer colony" where the older ones may go away for a little while every year and be more retired than they can in the village. They have named their retreat "Happy Valley"
 The condition of the islanders has lately been considerably improved by the numer- ous visits of English and American ships
 The population is increasing slowly. In 1879 it was 94. In December, 1882, it was 1O8, of
 which number 2 were shipwrecked sailors
 who had settled there The colony consists
 of about 20 families, who live in single story
 cottages formed of bamboo, with thatched
 roofs. The islanders are still noted for their
 strict religious conduct, grace being said
 before and after each meal, and swearing or anything of similar character being abso- lutely unknown. When any dispute arises
 among them the settlement of it is laid over till the next arrival of man of war, when
 it is referred to the captain, and hls de-
 cision is final.-New York Press.
 Girls Who Ride Tricyc1es.
 A Detroit lady in Washington writes to a
 friend that upwards of 100 young women fl,o no ito1 haI, I,it11a1 riders tIa fri