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of Age, who also spoke English perfectly well, indeed it is their Common and general language. -
These young men informed us of many Singular events, but referred us for further particulars to an old Man by the Name of John Adams, the only surviving Englishman that came away in the Bounty; He was not by his own account, in the smallest degree concerned in the Mutiny, he being, at the time it happened, sick in bed;- He is now between 50 and 60 years of age and on him the Welfare of the Colony entirely depends; indeed as it consists at present principally of very young Men and young Women, with few very old ones of the latter Class, without his advice assistance & instruction, they would soon be exterminated, for the land, tho' extremely fertile, will not produce without Cultivation.
This Island having no good Anchorage