Revised Jun 12 2021
After getting rid of Mr. Bligh and his crew, the mutineers sailed from Toubouai, an island about 500 miles south of Otaheite, where they intended to land; but the natives refusing to admit them, they proceeded to Otaheite. A second ineffectual attempt at settling having been made on Toubouai, and a refuge having again been found, for a short time, at Otaheite, Christian and eight of his comrades left for Pitcairn, in the Bounty, with certain Otaheitans, the rest of the mutineers remaining at Otaheite.
It happened that Carteret's printed description of Pitcairn had been on board the Bounty; and this probably determined Christian in his choice. Carteret, however, as will have been seen, was wrong in his description of the latitude and longitude of the island.
When the Bounty arrived at Pitcairn's Island, she had on board nine Englishmen, with their nine Otaheitan wives, and six Otaheitan men, three of whom had wives with them. These, with a little Otaheitan girl, made twenty-eight persons who landed. This little child, then an infant of ten months old, was afterwards the wife of Charles Christian, and the mother of Mrs. G. H. Nobbs! The names of the nine mutineers who reached the island in the Bounty were—
Christian and Young were men of good education. The former was the brother of Edward Christian, Esq., Professor of Law at Cambridge, Chief Justice of Ely, and Editor of Blackstone's Commentaries. Young was a nephew of Sir George Young, Bart. The other mutineers who landed at Pitcairn were chiefly sailors of the ordinary class.