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/ ennets Whaling Voyage round the
brld," as quoted in the columns of
|bdon contemporary. Those semi-civ-
I'd islanders are descended from the
' tincers of the Bounty and the native
! hen of Tahiti. English is their lam
= ge, and Englishmen they consider as
IT countrymen.


4 The only survivors of the first settlers
+ two aged Tahitian females, who pos
= some interest in association with the
1ory of these islanders. The eldest. Is
|h4lla, is the widow of the notorious
(Itcher Christian, and the mother of the
r. q-born on the island. Her hair is velv
vkte, and she bears generally an appear
nee of extreme age, but her mental and
oily powers are yet active. She ap-
l91red to have some knowledge of Cap
- Cook, and relates with the tenacious
s3ospect of age many minute particulars
: nected with the visit of that great nav


for to Tahiti. The second, Susan


istian, is some years younger than her
= 4htrywoman Isabella. She is short and


It, of very cheerful disposition, and
= Ned particularly kind to us; indeed
! Tered myself that had found favor in
T. sight of old Susan, as she not only
esented to me native cloth, of brilliant
ubrs, which she had herself manufacture
dybut, bringing pair of scissors, insist
1bpon my taking a lock of her dark and
ping hair, flowing profusely over her
6@hlders, and as yet but little frosted by


winter of life. This woman arrived
p&he island as one of the Tahitian set
1qe, and hears the reputation of having
lh6ed a conspicuous part when the lat
M were massacred by their own coun-
ITomen. She subsequently married
4 lprsday October, (what's in a name y
L. 4eldest son of Fletcher Christian, who
1.G at Tahiti in 1881. Her daughter
Wy, young and interesting female, is
- only spinster in the island she per-
'sSeres in refusing the offers of her coun-
Ayhen, to whom she expresses great
HGsion, but unfortunately her antipathy
laenot extended to Europeans, and a very
!n infant claims her maternal attentions.


In person, intellect, and habits, these
anders form an interesting link be-
wen the civilized European and unso-
heticated Polynesian natives. They are
| and robust people, and their fea-
~ Is, though far from handsome, display
.ehy European traits. With the exccp-
a9 of George Adams, who is much fairer
on any of his countrymen, the COM
ion of the adults does not differ in


ie from that of the Society Islanders.
|. 4heir hair also is invariably black and
p93sy, and either straight or gracefully
ed, as with the last-named people.
pr disposition is frank, honest, and hos
pie to an extreme, and, as is common


fces claiming a mixture Of the Euro


with Asiatic blood, they possess a


ID and susceptible tone of mind. In


Quoting the most trivial affairs they


guided by the Scriptures, which they


read diligently, and from which they


e with freedom and frequen that


er lmpairs the effect.


modest demeanor, large sh e Of


humour, and an artless and retiring