Further copy of Captain Pipon's Narrative of the State Mutineersof HMS - No. 0008

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learn the fate of Christian, and those who followed his fortune;  and for that purpose particularly we accompanied his Son on Shore;  tho' the landing was attended with some degree of danger, with the assistance however of our Conductor and his Companion, we reached the Shore with only a good wetting;  and soon after when Old John Adams learnt we had landed without Arms and were not come to Seize his person, he met us on the road and Conducted us to his house;  his Wife accompanied him, a very Old Woman, blind with Age:  They were at first extremely alarmed lest our visit was intended against him;  but as we observed to him that were not even aware of his being then living, and that we had no intention of that nature, he was soon relieved from all his apprehensions;  Indeed it would have been an act of great Cruelty and inhumanity, to have taken him from