Simplify the following text for a Grade 5 native English-speaking person.
Original: Abandoning the island , he stopped briefly in Tahiti where he married Maimiti , the daughter of one of the local chiefs , on 16 June 1789 .
Simplified: The sailors went back to Tahiti . Christian married Maimiti , the daughter of one of the chiefs on June 16 , 1789 .