Word: pitcairners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small boat equipped with oars and sail. Bligh and his companions won through to Kupang after 43 nightmarish days. Meantime the mutineers returned to Tahiti, whence nine of them set out again with a Tahitian princess for the first officer, eleven other native women and six native men. On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, craggy scrap of land in the South Pacific, they beached and burned the Bounty, hoped they were safe from reprisal. They were not safe from one another. Unbridled drinking and mating, suicides, a war between natives and whites, between women and men, left alive...
Last December the tawny, friendly islanders received the longest visit (ten days) from a scientist that any of them could remember. The visitor was Harry Lionel Shapiro, 32-year-old anthropologist of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Shapiro went to Pitcairn not as a nostalgic historian and romancer of the sea but as a student of what he called a ''laboratory experiment"-the development by cross-breeding of a new type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths...
...PITCAIRN'S ISLAND?Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall?Little, Brown...
...Lord Germain, British Colonial Secretary; and the official files of General Thomas Gage, British Commander-in-Chief, probably the most important bundle of manuscript that ever crossed the Atlantic. Some "items": Burgoyne's and Cornwallis' letters reporting surrender; Benjamin Franklin's letter refusing to compensate Tories; Pitcairn's report of the Battle of Lexington; a letter of Christopher Columbus describing his first voyage...
...December 1789, eight of the Bounty mutineers, under their leader, Fletcher Christian, with 18 Polynesian natives, landed on Pitcairn's Island. Tiny (two miles by one) but isolated and fertile, it looked like a safe refuge from the long arm of the British Government. Safe in that respect it proved to be but at the end of ten years only one man and ten women were left alive; "of the sixteen dead, fifteen had come to violent ends." Principal causes of dissension were women and liquor. There were not enough women to go around; when one of the colony...