Further copy of Captain Pipon's Narrative of the State Mutineersof HMS - No. 0027

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of nature, and as we have every reason to suppose, sensuality, and a passion for the females of Otaheite, chiefly instigated him to the rash step he had taken, so it is readily to be believed he could not live long on the Island without a female Companion;  consequently after the demise of his Wife, he forcibly seized on one belonging to the Otaheite Men, and took her to live with him,  This exasperated them to a degree of madness, open War was declared, and every opportunity sought to take away his life, and it was effected whilst he was digging in his own field.  It is surprizing that he should not have been more upon his guard, for he was well aware of the hatred and enmity of all the Otaheite Men. Thus terminated the miserable existence of this deluded young Man, whose connections in Westmoreland were extremely