Further copy of Captain Pipon's Narrative of the State Mutineersof HMS - No. 0028

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extremely respectable;  and who himself did not want talents and capacity to have become an ornament to his profession, had he adopted another line of Conduct.  We could not learn precisely the Number of White and Black (or Otaheite) Men who were killed whilst this Warfare continued, certainly however many must have perished by the hands of each other, and only Old John Adams remains of those that landed on the Island with Christian-

     The Island has only been visited by one Ship; since their Settlement on it, an American Ship, called the Topaz of Boston, Mayhew Folger Master; this took place on the 6th of February 1808, and is noted in Adams' Journal. -  The master landed and procured all manners of refreshments the Island afforded, such as Hogs, Goats,