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Recent Accounts of the Pitcairn Islanders.
Communicated by John Barrow Esq., F.R.S.

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London,
Vol. 3 (1833).
p.156.

156 Memoir on the Indux.

X.Recent Accounts of the Pitcairn Islanders. Communicated
by John Barrow Esq., F.R.S. Read 10th June, 1833.

      As the public have not ceased to take a great interest in the little colony of Pitcairn's Island, though no account of its proceedings has been published since that given in the Narrative of Captain Beechey's Voyage, the following extracts from official documents regarding it will probably he found interesting. The first is from a private Journal kept by the Honourable Captain Waldegrave, who visited the island in H.M.S. Seringapatam, in 1830, shortly before its inhabitants were induced to emigrate to Otaheite. The second is a despatch addressed to the Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales, by Captain Sandilands, of H.M. sloop Comet, who was employed to remove them. The remainder describe them since their return.

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[The following document extracts were included in this article.]
  1. Extract of journal kept by Captain Waldegrave. (Mar 1830).
  2. Despatch addressed to the Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales by Captain Sandilands. (Apr 9, 1831.
  3. Despatch from Captain Fremantle of the Challenger. (May 30, 1833).
  4. Letter from Joshua Hill to the Earl of Ripon. (Dec 28, 1832).
  5. Letter from same to same. (May 1833).

Source.
John Barrow Esq., F.R.S.
    "Recent Accounts of the Pitcairn Islanders. Communicated by John Barrow Esq., F.R.S. Read 10th June, 1833.
      Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
Vol. 3. (1833)
p. 156 of pp. 156-168.

This article was transcribed from the volume available at Google Books.


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