The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1901-06-21

mariners during the next 100 or more
years touched at the island. each CIV
ing II n new name. but Il was not until
the visit Of the Bounty. an English YES
sci sailed by Capt. Bllgh. that Tahiti
sprang into worldwide notoriety. IL
and the Bounty still live immortal In
the pages OF literature.
Matiny on the Bounty
In 1887 Capt. Bligh sailed from En-
gland 10 Tahiti for the purpose OF
transporting breadfruit trees and other |
plants TO jamaica. When he reached |
the island the season was too advanced |
for transplanting. and during his en-
forced stay there OF six months the
crew grew enamored OF the tropical
isle. The languorous climate. the hap
ny INDECENT lives OF tho nasivce. The
laylshness with which nature supplied
the peopie with all their wants, con-
trasted with their own struggle for ex-
lstence, deeply impressed them and
mutiny was decided on. few days
after the sailing OF the vessel
April 2s, 1883, the ship was
seized and Capt Bligh and IL
Others, who would not Join the
mutlneers, we're placed In small boat,
eupplled with water and food and
turned adrlft on the ocean. The mutin-
GERS headed the vessel back TO Tahiti.
Here one OF them named Christian and
eight others, after the rest had landed,
induced nine men and many
women to 20 aboard and with these
they sailed for Pitcairn island at that
time almost unknown to seamen. De-
termined to cut OF all traces OF them
selves, the mutineers. when they reach
cd pitcairn island beached and burned
the Bounty. There the mutineers lived
peacefully for a time-the Tahitian
women as their wives. the men as
their slaves-but finally dissensions
sprang up. the slaves rebelled and OF
nil the mutineers on the island only
two escaped a violent death. In 1905
Cant. Folger OF Nantucket, Mass
touched at Pitcairn island. and found
only one surviving mutlneer, Alexan'
der Smith, who subsequently changed
his name to Adams. Up to that time
the fato OF the Bounty and the mer
who sailed on II after II had for the
second time departed from Tahiti will
the 1s natives aboard was unknown.
Blrth Of New Civilization.
Cant. Folger found that Smith. o.
or Adams, had formed new civiliza
tion ON the island. The mutineer has
.organized n divine service In accord
ance with the forms OF the Anglican
church, and had established a school o
which he was the head. AS result o
his labors, the people, descendants o
Tho mutineers and the native women
grew up supplemented. honest ana re
ligious.
So benehcent was the work OF Adam
and so nearly ideal was the colony O
which no was the head that he was par
doned and permitted TO remain on tn
Island. Ever since that time the colon
has existed and passing ships hay
furnished II with necessary supplies /
return for the products OF the islan'
Just at present new interest center
An the colony because OF the startlln
fact that when the bark Inveneil
which has Just arrived at San Francis
90 PASSED Pitcairn no sign OF life wa
visible. though the most careful inspe'
.tion Mas made with powerful glasse
IL Is possible that after III years u
little colony has been wiped out /
famine or pestiience. The island
hut a dot on the ocean, being lit
over two miles In length.
Meantime the mutineers who hi
teen left on the island OF Tahiti we
called 10 account for their crime. Car
blight and his is companions. aft
covering distance Of a,6l7 nautic
miles. an unprecedented voyage for
opep boat, succeeded in reaching Il