Plan To Use Pitcairners As Moorea

Sugar Workers Came To Nought

A SUGGESTION that the descendants of the Bounty mutineers 77 S^ 0u . ld , 1 ?? tran u sferred from Pitcairn Island to Moorea to work on John Gyles Opunohu sugar plantation may have been seriously followed up it the plantation had not collapsed as quickly as it did missionaries in Tahiti considered this suggestion in February, 1819, after the arrival in Tahiti of the ship King George with a Tahitian rS-n foJ- T? years UteatUan ° a (otherwise Jenn y)> who had lived on Jenny had been abducted from Tahiti in 1789 to be the wife of one of the Bounty mutineers, and had lived on Pitcairn as an unwilling exile until 1817 when the captain of the American ship Sultan offered her a passage back to Tahiti. uuerea r,ntr I ? W A Ver ’ - the Sultan di r n0t go t0 Tahiti ’ and aft er a voyage to Marquisat menCan Jenny WaS dum P ed on Nukuhiva in the after a residence of three months, she was picked up by the Kmg George and brought to Tahiti, where she gave the missionaries an mterestmg and little-known account of the mutineers’ life on Pitcairn which was published m the Sydney Gazette for July 17, 1819 Jenny also said that all the other members of the Pitcairn settle ment would like to move to Tahiti or Moorea. And as Jenny made it clear that everyone on Pitcairn was accustomed to work this gave the missionaries the idea that the Pitcairners would be’ “a g 8 re It acquisition at Opunohu alongside of the sugar works, for the Tahitians

will not labour for any payment”.-

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