Identifier: homeofmutineers00murr (find matches)
Title: The home of the mutineers
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Murray, T. B. (Thomas Boyles), 1798-1860
Subjects: Bounty (Ship) Missions
Publisher: Philadelphia, New York (etc.) American Sunday-school union
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
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breadth of 178 HOME OF THE MUTINEERS. ones hand, hollowed out into grooves, andthe labour is continued until it is broughtto the breadth required, in the samemanner as the process is conducted inTahiti. Adamss house consisted of two rooms,and the windows had shutters to closeat night. The younger females are em-ployed with their brothers, under the di-rection of Adams, in the culture of theground, which produced cocoa-nuts, ba-nanas, the bread-fruit tree, yams, sweet-potatoes, and turnips. They have alsoplenty of hogs and goats; the woodsabound with a species of wild hog, andthe coasts of the island with several kindsof good fish. Their agricultural implements are madeby themselves, from the iron supplied bythe Bounty, which, with great labour, theybeat out into spades, hatchets, &c. Thiswas not all. The old man kept a regularjournal, in which was entered the natureand quantity of work performed by eachfamily, what each had received, and whatwas due on account. There was, it seem
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« DRESS. 179 ed, besides private property, a sort ofgeneral stock, out of which articles wereissued on account to the several membersof the community; and for mutual accom-modation, exchanges of one kind of pro-vision for another were very frequent, assalt for fresh provisions, vegetables andfruit for poultry, fish, &c.; also, when thestores of one family were low, or whollyexpended, a fresh supply was raised fromanother, or out of the general stock, to berepaid when circumstances were more fa-vourable. The young girls, although they haveonly the example of their Tahitian mo-thers to follow in their dress, are modestlyclothed, having generally a piece of clothof their own manufacture reaching fromthe waist to the knees, and a mantle, orsomething of that nature, thrown looselyover the shoulders, and hanging sometimesas low as the ankles: this mantle, how-ever, is frequently thrown aside, beingused principally as a shelter for theirbodies from the heat of the sun or theseverity of

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