The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-25


lett on the island. One of these succeeded
IN making an Intoxicating liquor and drank
nlulsel1 TO death, another one was exc
cuted by his companions, and third died
of consumption.
Adams, now an old man, became at last
impressed with the responsibility resting
upon him of teaching the descendants of
nlmselt and his companions the truth of the
bible. The result was a model community.
In 1880 the inhabitants moved to Norfolk
Island, but in 1856 part OF them returned
10 Pitcairn. This colony has since been re-
markable for the purity in which it has re-
tanned the principles inculcated by the patrl
archal Adams.
Between the years 1860 and 1880 num-
Der of ships called at the island In 1888
the American ship Harry Mills visited the
place, and one of the inhabitants named
Mccoy accompanied the ship to Liver
pool.
In the same year another American ship,
the Wandering Jew, stopped at the island,
and on leaving Capt. Talpey, the comman-
der, took with him another one of the in
habitants. This was Earnest Haywood
Christian, the great grandson of Fletcher
Christian. Until his arrival at Hull, Eng
land, Earnest Christian had never seen a
house, horse, or any other quadruped. His
delight and aStOnlShment when he first saw
steam engine and train were unbounded
The career of Mycoy, who preceded him to
England, had not been wholly of an agree
able character. Upon his arrival in Lon
don some INSCRIPTIONS person, taking ad
vantage of his utter ignorance of the ways
of the world, induced him to hold a series
of receptions" at kind Of variety show.
When he found into what he had been en-
trapped Mccoy was very much Disguised,
and blamed the captain of the Harry Mills
for not having told him the character of the
place.
AS soon as Christian arrived in Hull Nc
Coy wrote to him, beseeching him "for
Gods sake" not to come to London, ''for d"
he said, lit is hell" On his arrival Chris
tan was treated with the greatest kind
ness, and when he left England took with
him many valuable presents for the island
ers.
Christian spent three years on the ship,
visiting San Francisco and going com
pletely around the world before he returned
to his island home. On her second visit to
Pitcairn Mrs. Tapley had with her a young
English girl II years old She was the
youngest person who had ever visited the
island, and great was the interest and adj
miration she excited among the girls of her
own age. One in particular, Miss Emily
Mccoy, kept close to her all the time, ask
ing her all manner of questions about the
outside world;
on are Uuo uTbb girl Oh my own age
outside of this island that | have ever
SEEM" she said. "Tell me all you can,
What do horse-cars look like And the
churches-do you have people enough to fill
themr
Among the island women who visited the
ship on this occasion was Miss Rosalind
Young, one of the most attractive and en-
terprising on the island. She was at this
time about % years old, had never had a
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the organ in the island church, assisted her
| father in teaching the ''village school," an /
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. Tepiey that she never had an
| idle moment.
Another curious vein of modern civiliza-
| ton that has cropped out ON the island is
| the desire for some place where one can get
| a rest and change from the ordinary rou-
tine of life. On an isolated island only a
| few miles in circumference, in midocean,
| and containing only one village of less than
| a hundred inhabitants, summer residences
would seem to be hardly practicable OF de-
sirabie Yet these people have begun to
| build. little way from the main settle
ment, a small S'summer colony" where the
older ones may go away for 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-
| Gus visits of English and American ships.
The population is increasing slowly. In
1879 it was ninety-four. In December, 1852,
| it was 10S. of which number two were ship
wrecked sailors who had settled there. The
| colony consists of twenty families, who live
| in single story cottages formed of bamboo,
| with matched roofs.
The islanders are still noted for their
strict religious conduct, grace being said
before and after each meal, and swearing or
ANYTHING Of a similar character being abso-
lutely unknown.
When any dispute arises among them the
settlement of it is laid over till the next ar
rival of man-of-war, when it is referred
to the Captain, and his decision is final.