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Christian and his accomplices speaking the English language uncommonly well, and that this should be the general language among them. The old women from Otaheite retain the mother tongue, tho' as has been mentioned before, they have picked up many English words, & understand the language tolerably well.
The fate of Fletcher Christian himself was such as one might have expected, from his Cruelty and extraordinary unfeeling behaviour; From what we could learn he was shot by a Black or an Otaheite Man, whilst digging in his field, and almost instantaneously expired.
This happened about eleven Months, after they were settled on the Islands, but the exact dates I could not learn. The Man that thus murdered him was himself immediately after assassinated