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They cook in the Tahitan manner, by
baking in excavations in the earth filed
with heated stones; the fuel they employ
is usually the dried husks of the cocoanut


"The elder members of the Pitcairn
Island family are but indifferently educa-
ted, scarcely any of them being able to
write their own name, though most can
read. For some years past an English
man, named George Nobbs, has resided
on the island and officatcd as schoolmas-
ter to the children, who, in consequence,
exhibit n proficiency in the elements of
education highly creditable both to their
own intelligence and to the excrtions of
their teacher. George Adams had COM
menced nstructing himself in writing but
a few months before our arrival, and a
journal which he had kept for that length
of time, and which he put into my pos
session, displays much progress in the art
The few books they possess have been
obtained from sailors visiting their shores,
and are chiefly ola religious tenor. Some
volumes, also, which were removed from
the Bounty, are still preserved in the
house formerly occupied by the patriarch
John Adams.


"Thc English and Tahitian languages
are spoken with equal fuency by all the
islanders excepting the two Tahitian fe-
males, who speak little else than their ma
tive dialect, and are perhaps in the sad
predicament Of having purity forgotten
that. They converse in English with
some of the imperfections peculiar to for
eigners and this may be partly attribu-
ted to their usually discoursng in Tahiti
an with one another, as we'll as the prac-
tice among their British visiters of ad-
dressing them in broken English the bet
ter to be understood, delusion into
which most fall upon their first intercourse
with this people. They nevertheless
pride themselves upon an accurate knowi-
edge of the language of their fathers, and
not only aim at its nice,ies, but also in
dulge in tho more common French inter-
polations, as faux paux, fracas, sang froid,
&c.


"Thcy were earl ly and well instructed
in the pure doctrine of the Christian reI-
gion by their revcred forefathcr John Ad-
ans, and it is to be sincerely hoped that
no fanaticism may ever intrude upon their
present simple and sensible worship of the
Creator, nor the Incorporate zeal of en-
thusiasts give them a banc in exchange
for that religion,


Whose functions is to heal and to restore,
10 soothe and cleanse, not madden and poll
lnte.'


Their Sabbath is now observed upon
the correct day. or that according with
the meridian of the island, which was not
the case in 1914, when Sir II. Staines
visited the spot, and found John Adams
and his small community preserving Sat-
urday as the day Of rest an error which
had arisen from the circumstance of the
Bounty having made the passage from
England to Tahiti by the eastern route,
without any correction of time having
been made to allow for the day apparent
ly gained by this course.


"The canoes the natives possess are
but few and Of very simple construction.
They are followed out from one piece of
wood, and each is adapted to carry two
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