“Pitcairner” Dead

Link with Bounty History

Norfolk Is. Mourns

From Our Norfolk Is. Correspondent

Norfolk Is., May 4.

SLOWLY are those few stalwarts, who provide the direct link between histone Pitcairn Is. the original home of the Bounty mutineers—and Norfolk Island, passing away Mr, Seymour Buffett, of Steel’s Point, one of the six remaining Pit cairners, died on May 1, aged 83 years, and thus another well known figure has been removed from our midst.

Mr. Buffett was only eight years of age when his section of the Bounty crew’s descendants were transferred from Pitcairn to Norfolk, three-quart ers of a century ago. He was a des cendant of John Buffett, who, with John Evans, joined the Pitcairn com munity in 1818 from the visiting ship Sinus.

He was a charming, handsome, courtly old man, with a wonderful store of reminiscences and tales of the old days.

His funeral, in the quaint old ceme tery on Norfolk Island, was largely attended, and all the old hymns and spirituals were sung.