Part 4

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The following correspondents withdraw their names from our exchange list, their stock of shells, ores, stamps, and other things being exhausted: E. P. Snivelly, Columbus, Ohio; Charles R. Crowther, Bridgeport, Conn.; Ned Robinson, Fairfield, Ill.; Walter C. Freeland, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles H. Purdy, Jersey City Heights, N. J.; and G. Vasa Edwards, Plattsburgh, N. Y. Exchangers will please take notice.

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I would like to exchange fifty foreign stamps, for a star-fish one foot nine inches in circumference. Or one hundred foreign stamps, for fifteen perfect arrow-heads, twelve perfect spear-heads, or two good-sized stone hatchets. Also one hundred and twenty-eight foreign stamps, for a genuine Indian bow and two good arrows. There are no duplicates among my stamps, and some of them are unused. I will also exchange stamps for other Indian relics besides those named above. Correspondents will please give the locality where each curiosity was found.

D. O. L., care of E. A. Moore, 741 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

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I have just received a large supply of gold ore, and of rock from the Mammoth Cave, which I will exchange for curiosities. I will also exchange petrifactions. I especially desire to obtain the claw of a grizzly bear.

DELLIE H. PORTER, Russellville, Logan Co., Ky.

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Isaac S. Yerks, Brooklyn, New York, wishes the address of the correspondent who sent him a specimen of gypsum in a parlor-match box.

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Paul L. Ford, Brooklyn, New York, wishes the address of the correspondent who sent a stone from Natural Bridge.

Bertha A. Brumagim, Summerdale, New York, has received three unused foreign stamps, and will return used foreign stamps if the correspondent will send address, and the number of stamps wished for.

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Any more correspondents wishing to exchange foreign stamps for those from Hong-Kong or Japan, will please address me at Lake Mahopac, Putnam County, New York, instead of 27 East Twenty-second Street, as heretofore. I should like to ask those correspondents who are owing me stamps to send them to my new address as soon as possible.

HARRIETTE B. WOODRUFF.

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I will exchange woods and ores for curiosities, but I do not wish to exchange for stamps any longer. Nearly every correspondent sends me 1, 2, and 3 cent cancelled United States stamps, and wishes woods in return, and I do not think it is fair.

JOHN L. HANNA, 219 East Madison Street, Fort, Wayne, Allen Co., Ind.

It certainly is not fair to send these common United States stamps, which every boy and girl can obtain by the hundred, and expect anything of value in return. Stamps which are so very common, and are so very easily obtained by every one, can not be considered of any value for exchange. We refer only to the stamps of low denominations in use at the present time. Certain old issues of 1, 2, and 3 cent United States stamps are much more difficult to obtain than many kinds of foreign stamps.

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The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:

Amethyst, onyx, carnelian, topaz, moss-agate, blood-stone, sard, garnet, and malachite, for stamps from Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, United States of Colombia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Hanover, Modena, Philippine Islands, and Azores; or for a genuine Indian bow and arrow, stone hatchet, spear-heads, or arrow-heads.

WILLIE BROWN, 15 South Thirteenth Street, Newark, N. J.

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Rock from the Hoosac Tunnel, for Indian relics, shells, minerals, or foreign stamps. Correspondents will please label specimens.

ARTHUR C. BOUCHARD, 51 Eagle Street, North Adams, Mass.

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Unpolished specimens of pear, cherry, pine, black or white oak, maple, willow, silver-poplar, or horse-chestnut, or a bottle of sand or water from Lake Michigan, for a bottle of water from any river, or soil from any State except Illinois, or tin, silver, copper, or iron ore. Please label specimens.

MAX BAIRD, care of Baird & Bradley, 90 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill.

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Coins, minerals, stamps, fossils, relics of Indians or Mound-Builders, shells, ocean curiosities, pressed flowers, etc, for other specimens.

W. E. BREHMER, P. O. Box 747, Penn Yan, Yates Co., N. Y.

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Varieties of iron ore, for other minerals or curiosities.

EDDIE C. BROWN, care of E. J. Farnum, Wellsville, Allegany Co., N. Y.

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A Seltz's American Boy's Theatre, with nine different plays, wires for working, in perfect order, cost eight dollars, for a printing-press and type. Please send postal to arrange for exchange before sending package.

C. H. B., JUN., 34 Clifford Street, Boston, Mass.

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Pressed flowers, for Indian arrow-heads.

A. A. BEEBE, Falmouth, Barnstable Co., Mass.

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Stones from five different States, for minerals, ores, or curiosities of any kind except stamps.

A. L. CLARKE, 133 South Shaffer Street, Springfield, Ohio.

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A sea-shell, a curious stone, or a piece of forest moss, for five stamps from Asia, or South America or adjacent islands.

J. F. C., West Yarmouth, Mass.

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Florida moss, silk cocoons, stones from Georgia or North Carolina, and specimens of wood, for gold or silver ore, fossils, or any other curiosity.

ANSON CUTTS, Eden, Effingham Co., Ga.

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Forty-two postmarks or three foreign stamps, for ocean curiosities.

GEORGE O. DAWSON, 133 East Eleventh Street, Leadville, Col.

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Stamps from Jamaica, Cuba, Danish West Indies, France, Australia, and past and present issues of Canada, for stamps from Mexico, Turkey, Persia, Portugal, Newfoundland, and other countries.

T. C. DES BARRES, JUN., 93 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Ten postmarks from Ohio (no duplicates), for the same number from Texas, California, Oregon, or Louisiana.

FRANKIE J. DICK, P. O. Box 866, Ashtabula, Ohio.

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Lava, shells from nearly all parts of the world, and foreign postage stamps, for Indian relics, curious birds' wings; or stuffed birds or animals. Please send list of things you wish to exchange before sending any article.

C. N. DALY, Bergen Point, N. J.

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Minerals, for Indian arrow-heads. United States stamps, for any curiosity.

WALTER and H. C. DICKINSON, 1004 Madison Avenue, New York City.

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Twenty-five foreign stamps (no duplicates), for five coins.

GEORGE H. ELDER, 99 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y.

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Carnelians from Lake Pepin, Minnesota, and stones from the Pacific coast, for Florida moss.

JULIA F. EHRMAN, 205 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Ill.

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Sandwich Island and other rare postage stamps and revenue stamps, for stamps. A 90-cent United States postage stamp, a 30 and 50 cent due stamp, and 7, 10, 24, and 90 cent Treasury stamps especially desired.

FRED W. FLATTEN, 215 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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A piece of bark of a California tree, a small piece of Scotch pearl, a stone, sand, and soil of Pennsylvania, and three foreign stamps, for a piece of zinc ore and any five foreign stamps except Canadian, Russian, and English.

ALVIN M. EVANS, Care of J. H. Evans, Oil City, Venango Co., Pa.

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An ounce of soil from Manitoba, or Canadian postage stamps, for Indian arrow-heads, ores, coins, or rattlesnake rattles.

A. FERGUSSON, Drawer 36, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Rare stamps, for stamps, coins, Indian relics, or any curiosity except postmarks and minerals.

HULDA FAGLON, 25 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Dried willow pussies and pressed violets, for Texas, California, or Florida moss.

BESSIE GLEASON, West Medford, Mass.

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Five-pfennige German stamps, violet issue of 1875, for French stamps issued between 1853 and 1869.

CHARLES S. GREENE, Rockview Street, Jamaica Plains, Mass.

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An illustrated life of Zachariah Chandler, Michigan Senator, for an autograph letter written by any eminent person.

NELLIE G., P. O. Box 750, Saranac, Ionia Co., Mich.

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A piece of coral from Australia, shells from the Mississippi River, petrified wood and bark, gold ore from California, silver ore, minerals, and Indian relics, for a genuine Indian bow or a scroll-saw.

EMIL HARTMANN, 1818 South Seventh Street, St. Louis, Mo.

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Postmarks, for stamps; six varieties of stamps, for one foreign coin; or stamps, for stamps and curiosities.

JAMIE D. HEARD, 105 Market Street, Pittsburgh, Penn.

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Soil from Delaware, for the same from any other State except New York.

WILLIS H. HAZARD, Delaware College, Newark, Del.

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A Brazilian stamp, for a 12 and 15 cent United States; a 3-penny English stamp, for a 30-cent United States.

ALBERT H. HOPKINS, Annapolis, Md.

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Six foreign postage stamps, for soil from any Territory.

HUGH H. PITCAIRN, 206 West State Street, Harrisburg, Penn.

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Ninety-five postage stamps, mostly foreign, and very few duplicates, for a genuine Indian bow and arrow.

EDWIN M. POST, 5 East Thirty-third Street, New York City.

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A scroll-saw, with directions to use it, for a piece of zinc and tin ore.

THOMAS PORTER, Russellville, Logan Co., Ky.

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Stamps, for anything suitable for a museum, or for postmarks.

E. LEE ROAKE, 399 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Stones and soil of Illinois, postmarks, and United States due stamps, for foreign stamps and United States department stamps.

FRANK RIGGS, Watseka, Iroquois Co., Ill.

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Ten rare stamps, for two coins.

RUSSELL RICHARDS, 114 Washington Street, Atlanta, Ga.

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Fifteen stamps or twenty-five postmarks (no duplicates), for every coin dated prior to 1800.

S. FRANK RUPERT, P. O. Box 103, Easthampton, Mass.

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Postmarks from Ohio, for postmarks from any other State.

WALTER SHERWOOD, P. O. Box 639, Wauseon, Ohio.

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Pressed flowers, for the same, or for mosses, sea-shells, a bow and arrow, or curiosities of any kind. Curiosities from Germany, China, Scotland, or Florida especially desired.

DOTTY SEAMAN, Richmond P. O., Staten Island, N. Y.

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A specimen of rock from Weyer's Cave, Virginia, for an Indian arrow-head.

ROBERT E. SOUTHWICK, Northampton, Mass.

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French, German, English, and some rare United States postage and revenue stamps, for rare foreign and United States coins.

WILLIAM F. SEALY, 811 Second Avenue, New York City.

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Iron ore, stamps, stones, wood, soil, or any curiosity from Massachusetts, for Indian relics, coins, or anything suitable for a museum.

WILLIE S. TOWNSEND, Quinsigamond Village, Worcester, Mass.

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Stamps, butterflies, or moss, for sea-shells.

JAMES THOMPSON, Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio.

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A collection of four hundred and fifty stamps in a new album, worth, according to catalogue, eleven dollars and fifty cents, and a two-wheeled velocipede in good order, for a second-hand bicycle.

HARRY, Lock Box 16, Urbana, Ill.

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Thirty foreign stamps and eighteen postmarks, for an Indian arrow-head, two pieces of pottery, and any other Indian relic.

HARRY F. THOMPSON, 290 East South Street, Indianapolis, Ind.

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Ten foreign postage stamps, for minerals, ores, fossils, or Indian relics.

F. TOOQUE, 276 Washington Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Newspapers and postmarks, for newspapers and curiosities.

FRANK M. TURRILL, Pleasant Ridge, Hamilton Co., Ohio.

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Coral, small shells, and a few other curiosities, for curiosities.

S. ELLIOTT UHLER, Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Penn.

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Granite and marble from the New York State Capitol, and marble from Tennessee, for gold ore, minerals, Florida moss, or any curiosities.

ADELE WINCHESTER, 327 Hudson Avenue, Albany, N. Y.

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Ten foreign stamps (no duplicates), for a perfect nickel cent of 1856.

KARL C. WELLS, Waterbury, Washington Co., Vt.

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Three alligator's teeth, and ocean curiosities, for rare stamps. Please send postal before sending stamps.

JULIUS H. ZEINER, 138 Wyckoff Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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JOHN R. G.--For the answer to your question as to the antiquity of glass, see answer to Henry C. D., in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 63.

The Crinoidea, from two Greek words meaning "lily" and "appearance," are an order of radiated animals of the class Echinodermata, the highest animals of the subkingdom _Radiata_. As fossils they are sometimes called stone-lilies, having a lily-shaped disk supported on a jointed stem. The recent species of the Crinoidea are very few; but in remote ages they were so numerous that their fossils constitute the greater part of extensive strata of limestone. The Burlington limestone contains a great variety of beautiful crinoids.

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"COUNT NO ACCOUNT."--See answer to Edmund H. B., in the Post-office Box of No. 65.

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FRED B. P. AND WILLIE F.--The information you wish for has not yet been given in YOUNG PEOPLE, but a paper of that character is now in preparation.

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"DOUGLAS" AND MANY OTHERS.--Your puzzles are very good, but they are not available, as puzzles with the same solution have already appeared in YOUNG PEOPLE.

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"STUDENT."--Prester John, or "Priest John," is the name given to a personage who was supposed to hold the position of priest-king over a Christian tribe somewhere in the interior of Asia. Prester John is often mentioned in the literature of the Middle Ages, but historians consider him a mythical character, as no record of his existence has ever been discovered. So strong was the belief in him, however, that about the middle of the thirteenth century St. Louis, King of France, sent an embassy in search of him and his isolated Christian people. The embassy met with no success, but it was still believed that Prester John dwelt securely in some remote region. The legend of his existence is supposed to have arisen from the fact that, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries parties of Nestorian missionaries visited the interior of Toorkistan, and converted a powerful Khan to Christianity. Their glowing accounts of the magnificence of his court, and of the sincere piety of him and his people, made so strong an impression as to give color to all the legends of that period. The Khan was overthrown and killed in 1202, and Christianity in his dominion ceased, but the existence of Prester John was still believed in, and for several centuries devout monarchs continued to send embassies in search of him and his Christian brotherhood.

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C. B. H.--The only thing for you to do is to write to your delinquent correspondent, and demand the return of your stamps. It is not right for any one to keep stamps or any curiosity and send no equivalent.

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SADIE V.--If you will send your full address, we will gladly print your exchange of japonica seeds.

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LULAH M. P., GEORGE. H., AND EDDIE T.--Your stories are very pretty, and it has been good practice for you to write them, but we can not print them in YOUNG PEOPLE. If you will send your address, the manuscripts will be returned to you.

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Correct answers to puzzles have been received from "Ajax," Jemima Beeston, J. D. Brown, E. A. Cartereau, Maggie Dutro, Benjamin Goldenberg, Alice C. Hammond, William B. Hadley, Walter P. Hiles, _Charles E. Lloyd_, M. Mann, _Percy L. McDermott_, N. J. McMillan, "Oliver Twist," Charles S. Petrasch, "_Pepper_," "Queen Bess," Bessie G. Read, Howard Rathbone, Alice Southworth, "Starry Flag," G. P. Salters, Wilmot, Bertha, and Edmund Sheppard, _Howard J. Van Doren_, R. H. Washburne, Willie F. Woolard, "Will A. Mette," Edward F. Weeks, Wyette W.

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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

ZIGZAGS.

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Across.--1. A bird. 2. A mineral. 3. A tree. 4. To desire earnestly. 5. Not taken. 6. An animal. 7. A fish. 8. A fish. 9. Certain insects. 10. A fruit.

Zigzags.--A bird.

WILL A. METTE.

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No. 2.

ENIGMA.

In grapes, but not in vine. In cattle, not in kine. In summer, not in sun. In play-time, not in fun. In follow, not in catch. In brimstone, not in match. In evening, not in night. In slender, not in slight. In sorry, not in sad. In merry, not in glad. In summer I am found Growing low upon the ground.

S. J. T.

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No. 3.

CHARADES.

1. Both my first and my second are musical instruments. My whole is a musical instrument, and also a dance.

2. On the night of the ball, around my first I wore my second and my whole.

BOLUS.

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No. 4.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC--(_To Bolus_).

Cross Words.--A tree. A city in South America. Part of a roof. A harbor. A circle of light. To join. A celebrated despot. A native of one of the United States.

Primals.--An animal.

Finals.--An extinct animal.

OLIVER TWIST.

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 81.

No. 1.

Decoration-day.

No. 2.

S C T O N T U B T A L O N T I T L E S O L O M O N C U T L E R Y N O M A D B L E A R N O D E R R N Y

No. 3.

P O S T H A C K O V E R A X L E S E R E C L A Y T R E E K E Y S

No. 4.

Sunshine.

A personation, on page 464--John Bunyan.

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A PITCAIRN ISLANDER.

Mr. Russell McCoy, a native of Pitcairn Island, and one of the descendants of the mutineers of the ship _Bounty_, is now visiting in London, and the following description of the man and his native island is taken from the _Boys' Illustrated News_:

"Russell McCoy, who arrived in Liverpool on board the American ship _Harvey Mills_, on April 30, has been giving an account of his birth-place, at the Westminster Aquarium. McCoy is a middle-aged man, standing about five feet nine inches in height, and his complexion is dark, but he would pass for a native of this country, and his accent is very like that of the south of England people.

"He says he left Pitcairn Island (which is situated some twenty-five degrees south of the Equator, about half way between Australia and South America) on January 28, for the purpose of visiting England, and the _Harvey Mills_ was accompanied for about ten miles by two whale-boats containing all the men on the island, with one exception, and seven of the women. When he left, there were ninety-five people on the island, but only three names of the original mutineers now remain, these being Christian, Young, and McCoy. The oldest inhabitant is a daughter of John Young, she being also the step-daughter of John Adams. She is now about ninety years of age, and was the second child born on the island.

"McCoy states that it is an error to suppose that Adams was the leader of the mutineers, that position being always occupied by Fletcher Christian. The islanders, he states, at present have sheep, goats, pigs, and fowls, with which they were supplied chiefly by passing vessels. The produce grown consists of yams, sweet-potatoes, bananas, arrowroot, English potatoes, maize, melons, and all kinds of ordinary vegetables. There is no money, the people exchanging one with another, anything they may have.

"There is one church on the island, and one school, and the school-master, Simon Young, also officiates in the church. His daughter, Rosalind Young, assists him in the school. The church service is conducted according to the English Prayer-Book, and the marriage ceremony is similar to ours, except that the wedding can take place after one publication of the banns. Services are held in the church twice each Sunday, and the Sunday-school meets twice also. The day school is open from 9 A.M. to 2, sometimes 3, P.M., one hour being allowed for dinner.

"On Saturdays there is a holiday. English manners and customs are followed so closely that the islanders keep the Christmas, Whitsuntide, and Easter holidays, and Good-Friday is always observed as a strict fast-day.

"McCoy says the people are always very glad to hear about the Queen, who has been so kind to them, and an organ which her Majesty presented to them is an object of much veneration. As far as regards food, the islanders are well off, but the supply of clothing is very deficient, particularly in the case of the female inhabitants. It is only from passing vessels that they obtain supplies of clothes, and the apparel thus given them is chiefly for the use of the men. Very few of the people have shoes, and those who have them use them only on Sundays. McCoy speaks with much feeling of the relations he left behind. He is a married man, and the father of nine children. He wears his wife's wedding ring on his little finger, she having placed it there, as he was leaving, to keep her ever in his remembrance. The ring has been accidentally broken, but McCoy is so fearful of losing it that he is unwilling to intrust it to a jeweller for repairs."

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, June 7, 1881, by Various