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[Duplicate of Series 71.03 page 3]
after I had had it in my possession about six weeks. The Compass I put in repair on board my Ship, & made use of it on my homeward passage, since which a new card has been put to it by an Instrument maker in Boston. I now forward it to your Lordship, thinking there will be a kind of satisfaction in receiving it merely from the extraordinary circumstances attending.
Should you wish any further information respecting Pitcairn's Island or its Inhabitants, a letter directed to me at Nantucket to the care of Gideon Gardner Esq will be carefully attended to.
I am etc.
Mayhew Folger.
Extract of a letter from Vice Admiral Dixon to Mr. Croker dated Rio Janeiro 28 Nov. 1814.
"In a private letter which I have received from Sir.Thos Staines, he says - our trip round the Gallipagos Islands, the Marquesas & Pitcairns has been exceedingly interesting & our interview with x John Adams, the only remaining Survivor of the Bounty's Crew, I will in another letter by the Racoon give you a description of Christian the misled young man who was the mainspring of the Mutiny in that Ship, fell a sacrifice in the Island of Pitcairn about 18 years since.
Capt Pipon mentions in a private letter, the discovery of the descendants of Christian is a subject of the greatest astonishment - I never beheld a finer face of young Men & Women, from all accounts we could collect at Pitcairn's Island, most moral & chaste in their conduct."
x This must be Alexr Smith under another name, that of John Adams does not appear among the Bounty's Crew.
[John Adams was a Bounty mutineer and adopted the name of Alexander Smith]