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Adams, George, 67, 162–163, 169, Beaglehole, J. C., 11 257–258 Bean, Richard, 61, 136, 202 Adams, John. See Smith, Alexander Pitcairn (2014), 61, 136, 202 Adams, President John, 24–25 Beech, Harriet, 302 Ahu-toru, 230 Beechey, Captain Frederick William, 2, 5, Alaska, 145 26, 36, 37, 46, 67, 69, 71, 116, 181, Albert, Prince, 79, 131, 175 185, 186, 191, 207, 243 American Board of Commissioners for Belcher, Admiral Edward, 78, 135–136, Foreign Missions (ABCFM), 37, 48, 205–207, 255 50, 54, 87, 88, 102, 104–111, Belcher, Lady Diana (née Jolliffe), 78, 175, 116, 120 176, 266 American Revolution, 34, 41, 42 Bennett, Frederick Debell, 69, 71, 73, 74, Anglican Church Missionary Society 161, 167, 248, 249, 250 (CMS), 89 Benton, Senator Thomas Hart, 144 Anson, Admiral George, 43 Bernstein, Carl, 246 Australasian Wesleyan Methodist General Bicknell, George, 2, 3 Conference, 279 Bingham, Hiram, 37, 50–54, 56, 59, 75, Australia, 134, 142, 195, 213, 274, 86–90, 102, 104–118, 122, 124, 281, 293 278, 280 New South Wales, 142, 181, 185, 271 Blagden, Dr. Sir Charles, 47 Port Jackson, 3, 293 Bligh, Captain William, 1, 5, 8, 23, 27–29, Sydney, 277 33, 62, 88, 113, 133–134, 142, 160, Van Diemen’s Land, 185 165, 187, 188, 204, 217–221, 233, Wagga Wagga, 277 290, 292, 309 Bligh, Elizabeth (Betsy), 88, 217, 218, 219 Bachelot, Father Alexis, 49, 50–51, Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 231 110, 111 Boki, 49, 107–111 Baker, Shirley Waldemar, 279 Bonaparte, Madame Josephine, 5, 35, 47 Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 10, 65, 178, Bonaparte, Napoleon, 5, 35, 47, 82 179, 207, 241 Bougainville, Captain Louis Antoine de, 14, The Lonely Island; or, The Refuge of the 54, 220, 230 Mutineers (1880), 178, 179, 205, 207 Bounty Register, 2, 3 Banks, Sir Joseph, 3, 5, 10, 35, 39, 47, 56, Bourke, Governor Richard, 142 186–191, 199, 207, 217, 229, Bowles, Captain William, 36 230, 231 Brando, Marlon, 8 Barrow, Sir John, 39, 116, 121, 124, 125, Breadfruit, 1, 5, 28, 47, 142, 160, 180, 186, 181, 182, 185, 207, 265, 269, 188, 189, 190, 195, 205, 207, 270, 271 217, 222 Batavia, 134, 217, 230 Bridgewater, 45, 46 Bathurst Island, 181 Brighton Pavilion, 48 Bayonet Constitution, 279 Bristol Journal, 277 Beachcombers, 18, 92, 108 Brodie, Walter, 64, 132, 213, 250

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Brown, William, 22, 135, 243, 244 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 222 (LDS), 279 Bruce, Captain William Henry, 38, 97, 98, Coconuts, 3, 63, 133, 134, 137, 165, 101, 130, 173, 174, 212, 248, 254, 195, 203 257, 261–265, 273, 281, 282, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 222 283, 301 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Bryant, William Cullen, 10 (1798), 222 Buffett, Dorothy (Dolly) (née Young), 120, Colvin, Sidney, 11 157, 158, 166, 167, 254, 257 Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus Buffett, John, 30, 51, 52, 71, 76–82, 85–88, and Mary (The Picpus Fathers), 49, 97, 104, 116, 117, 120–125, 107, 109, 113 151–171, 172, 174, 175, 184, 185, Cook, Captain James, 11, 16, 17, 27–29, 186, 202, 208–212, 254–258, 262, 33, 44, 54, 88, 91, 145–147, 178, 264, 303 187, 188, 204, 205, 220, 221, 222, Bullock, Reverend W. T., 129 226, 228–230, 232, 234, 235, 238, Bunder, George, 116 248, 249, 279, 289 Bunker, Captain Noah, 79, 80, 84, 85, 116 Cook, James, Jr., 27 Burder, George, 95 Cook, Nathaniel, 27 Burke, Edmund, 143, 145 Burton, Sir Richard, 219 Dana, Richard Henry, 10, 12, 197, 301 Busby, James, 93 Darling, David, 184 Byron, Lord George Gordon, 10, 13, 105, Darwin, Charles, 14, 75, 231–232, 258 107, 178, 182, 190, 191, 220, The Origin of the Species (1859), 232 222, 294 The Descent of Man (1871), 232 Byron, Lord John, 43 Dashwood, George Frederick, 4 Diderot, Denis, 197 California Gold Rush, 58, 83 Dilke, Charles, 227–228, 283, 284 Canning, George, 74, 103 Dillon, Peter, 237–238 Captain, Pipon, 249–251 Dodd, Robert, 188–189 Carson, Rachel, 190, 195, 207 Dole, Sanford B., 279 Carteret, Captain Philip, 20–21, 62, 199 Donne, John, 193 Catholicism, 37, 48–51, 107–114 Douglas-Home, Alec, 288 Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal,8 Driver, Captain William, 71, 157–159, Charles Doggett, 71, 184 184–185 Charlotte Augusta, Princess, 48 Dublin Literary Journal, 202 Charlton, Richard, 51, 74, 75, 108, 109, Ducie Island, 193 212, 274–275, 281 Duckworth, Sir John, 35 Château de Malmaison, 33, 35, 47 Duff, 90, 91 Chilé Dupetit-Thouars, Admiral Abel Aubert, 83, Valparaíso, 2, 38, 66, 82, 97, 98, 127, 114, 280 128, 169, 170, 172, 259–264, 265, 301, 304 Earhart, Amelia, 19 Christian, Charles, 22, 167 East India Company, 45, 46, 56, 147 Christian, Edward, 8 Ebril, Captain Thomas, 2–3, 117, 118, Christian, Fletcher, 8, 19–25, 28, 33, 169, 275 61–63, 68, 78, 133–140, 158, 159, Edgartown, Massachusetts, 145 160, 178, 180, 190, 199–202, 218, Edwards, Captain Edward, 8, 78, 90 223, 233, 234, 236, 237, 239, 243, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, 259 249, 281, 287, 289, 292 Elliot, Sir George, 175, 297, 298, 299 Christian, Mary, 254 Elliott, Captain Russell, 131, 176, Christian, Thursday October, 21–23, 157, 265–271, 290 158, 183, 249–254 Ellis, William, 75, 98, 103, 114, 175, 186 Church Missionary Society (CMS), 131 Enderby, Captain Samuel, 143 Church of England, 214 Enlightenment, 229, 231, 239, 240

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Evangelical Magazine,95 Kailua, 50 Evans, John, 71, 76–78, 97, 116, 121, 122, Kamehameha Dynasty, 48, 59, 75 125, 130, 149, 151, 153–174, Kauai, 50 208–212, 265, 303 Kealakekua Bay, 28 Evans, Rachel (née Adams), 121, 158, 166, Lahaina, 50 167, 256–258 Maui, 51, 54 O‘ahu, 49, 69, 75, 77, 107, 110, 223 Faahotu (Fasto), 242 Hawtayne, John, 115 Ffrench, Jemima, 81 Hay, John C. Dalrymple, 263, 301 Fiji, 10, 12, 93 Hayluyt, Richard, 87 Fiske, N. W., 65 Heath, Thomas, 176 Fitzherbert, Maria, 45, 46 Henderson Island, 193–195 Flynn, Errol, 8 Henderson, Captain John, 87 Folger, Mayhew, 9, 19–26, 67, 68, 69, 157, Henry, Samuel Pinder, 2, 3 183, 236 Henson, Jim, 298 Forster, Johann Georg (George), 289 Heywood, Peter, 78, 239–240 Forster, Johann Reinhold, 187, 229 Hill, Joshua W. Freemantle, Captain Charles, 3, 4, 30–32, Arrival at Pitcairn Island, 1, 3, 12, 29, 30, 38, 121–125, 150, 151, 156 38, 69, 76, 79, 118, 121, 130, 147, French Revolution, 9, 137, 154, 175 149, 150, 155, 159, 160, 163, 165, Freud, Sigmund, 220 169, 263, 271, 275, 294, 305 Furneaux, Commander Tobias, 230 As a Filibuster, 58, 59 As Newspaper Editorialist, 42, 43, 45, 74 Gable, Clark, 8 As South Paciﬁc Diplomat, 56, 119, 120, Galápagos Islands, 258 138, 139 Galton, Francis, 232 Associate of Hiram Bingham, 50, Gauguin, Paul, 83 111, 112 George IV (HRH the Prince Regent), 5, 33, At Tahiti, 55, 103, 104, 113–115 36, 45–48, 102, 151 At the Hawai‘ian Islands, 51, 103, Gibson, Mel, 8, 292 111, 280 Gibson, Walter M., 279 Birth, 34, 41 Glasgow Missionary Society (GMS), 89 Communication with the British Golding, William, 10 Government, 5, 144, 146, 154, 163 Goodrich, Samuel Griswold (Peter Communication with the London Parlay), 65 Missionary Society, 5, 72, 74, Gordon, W. E., 214 140–141 Death of, 302–303 Hall, James Norman, 10, 40, 263 Employee of the East India Company, 35 Hamilton, Lady Emma, 5 Fall from Power at Pitcairn Island, 127, Hammerstein, Oscar, 290 172, 173 Hardy, Thomas, 302 Father, 41–42, 45 Hastings, Francis Rawdon, First Marquis of Government at Pitcairn Island, 6–7, Hastings and Second Earl of 30–32, 56, 72, 101, 119, 120, Moira, 81 123–128, 140, 148–177, 199, Hastings, Warren, 8 207–213, 255, 256–258, 263, 264, Hau‘ofa, Epeli, 10, 15, 17, 201, 226, 227 268, 303 Tales of the Tikongs (1983), 10 Guest of Prince Regent, 48 Hawai‘ian Islands (Sandwich Islands), 28, Implicated in Royal Scandal, 45, 46 37, 51, 74, 102, 104, 105, 107, 108, In France, 47 111, 112, 114, 115, 118, 209, 213, Legacy of, 82, 131, 174, 267, 271–274, 235, 274 282, 290, 291, 292, 295, 300, American Annexation of, 276 307 Hilo, 50 Life in London, 39 Honolulu, 11, 48–54, 57, 69, 105, 113, Marriage, 38, 39, 166, 302 204, 274–275, 280 Medical History (Diabetes), 38

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Hill, Joshua W. (cont.) Ka‘ahumanu, 49–52, 105–112, 241 Personality, 103, 112, 115, 137, 138, Kalakaua, 279 139, 170 Kamā malu, 104, 105, 107 Portrait of, 296–301 Kamchatka, 146 Portrayed as a madman, 6, 120, 124, Kamehameha I, 49, 104, 105, 107, 110 125, 306 Kamehameha II (Liholiho), 104–108, Recommended by Queen Pomare IV, 38, 241, 274 56, 57, 93, 138, 139 Kamehameha III (Kauikeaouli), 48–50, Removal from Pitcairn Island, 38, 97, 105, 106, 213, 274 130, 131, 173, 175, 176, 212, 257, Kendall Chronometer, 23 261, 263, 264, 291 Keō puolani, 105 Seeks a Residence at the Hawai‘ian King George Tupou I, 279 Islands, 51–53 Kipling, Rudyard, 219 Thoughts on the Value of the Hawai’ian Mandalay (1892), 219 Islands, 53 Kissinger, Henry, 246, 247 Voyage from Tahiti, 2 Knowles, Captain Josiah N., 285, 286 HM Sloop Comet, 178, 183 Kotzebue, Otto von, 119 HMAV Bounty,1,6–9, 19–25, 28, 31, 38, Kreeft, Peter, 12, 197, 198 39, 61–67, 90, 91, 92, 94, 121, 137, Kretser, Michael de, 304 158, 160, 166, 171, 178–193, 195, Kuriel Islands, 146 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 207, 224, 228, 231, 234, 236–242, 245, 248, L’Académie française,35 258, 265, 289, 292, 299, 300, 308 La Reine Blanche, 280 Mutiny aboard, 8, 133, 134, 137, 158 Lady Penrhyn,28 HMS Actaeon, 129, 173, 174, 176 Law, Edward, 8 HMS Beagle, 14, 232 Linnaean Taxonomy, 232 HMS Blond, 128 London Missionary Society (LMS), 5, 37, HMS Blonde, 66, 105, 107, 170 54–56, 68, 72, 74, 75, 121, 138–142, HMS Blossom, 5, 26, 67, 69, 135, 181, 191, 147, 150, 175, 181, 184, 186, 191, 206, 243, 255 273, 279, 306 HMS Briton, 23, 24, 63 London Morning Post, 36, 42, 44, 74, 112, HMS Challenger, 3, 30, 38, 121, 150, 275 142, 273 HMS Dublin, 29, 30 London, Jack, 10 HMS Fly, 101, 131, 176, 265, 268 Longitude, 12, 20 HMS Imogene, 38, 97, 101, 172, 173, 212, Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 257, 260, 261, 262, 263–265, 273, 32, 151 281, 301 Lucy Anne, 178, 183 HMS Pandora, 8, 78, 90, 91 HMS Providence, 188 Macartney Mission, 39 HMS Seringapatam, 26, 66, 81, 180, 249 Magellan, Ferdinand, 15, 205 HMS Tagus, 23, 24, 63 Maitland, Rear Admiral Frederick, 147 HMS Thunder, 130 Manarii (Menalee), 201, 202, 243, 244 HMS Victory, 298 Mangareva, 114, 193–195 HMS Virago, 214 Manifest Destiny, 53 Hodson, George, 72, 140 Margulies, Donald, 276 Holman, Reverend W. H., 64, 65, 130, 214 Maria,2,3,7 Hopkins, Anthony, 292 Marquesas Islands, 29, 31, 90, 103, 184, Huahine, 29 240, 277, 280 Hudson’s Bay Company, 146 Marquis de Rays (Charles Marie Bonaventure du Breil), 278 Ibbot, Captain Henry, 289 Martel, Yann, 308 Institut de France,47 The Life of Pi (2001), 308, 309 Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, 145 Jones, John C., 108 Martin, Isaac, 22, 135, 200, 236, 243, 244 Jones, Peter Cushman, 279 Mason, Rear-Admiral Francis, 66, 283

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Mauatua (Maimiti, Isabella, Mainmast, Natural Stone Bridge of Virginia, 34 Mrs. Christian), 135, 158, 218, 233, Nelson, Vice-Admiral Horatio, 5, 24, 298 234, 235, 246, 248, 249 New Bedford, Massachusetts, 145 Maude, H. E., 6, 56 New Zealand, 93, 195, 213, 274, 277, Maugham, W. Somerset, 10, 217 278, 286 The Moon and Sixpence (1919), 217 Newton, Sir Isaac, 305 May, Robert E., 58 Niagara Falls, 33, 34, 35 McCoy, Sarah, 152 Niau (Nehou), 201, 241 McCoy, William, 22, 135, 150, 161, 200, Nichols, B. Toup, 215 243–246 Nixon, President Richard, 246, 247 Melbourne, Viscount Lord, 39, 298 Nobbs, Francis Mason, 283 Melville, Herman, vi, 10, 12, 19, 70, 76, 97, Nobbs, George Hunn, 3, 5, 30, 31, 66, 71, 98, 119, 125, 143, 144, 197, 219, 76–85, 97, 116, 117, 120–132, 220, 225, 233, 293, 294, 296, 149–177, 202, 208–215, 254, 255, 301, 303 257, 262, 264, 266, 268, 270, 283, Conﬁdence-Man 284, 287, 303 His Masquerade, The (1857), 19 Nobbs, Sarah (née Christian), 120, 158, Mardi, and A Voyage Thither (1849), 296 167, 257 Moby-Dick, or, the Whale (1851), 97, 143, Nordhoff, Charles, 10, 263 144, 197, 296, 301, 303 Norfolk Island, 78, 79, 132, 175, 177, Captain Ahab, 296, 303 213–216, 227, 228, 258, 264, Ishmael, 225 270, 284 Queequeg, 225 Cemetery Bay, 132 Omoo, A Narrative of Adventures in the Norton, John, 134 South Seas (1847), 12 Nott, Henry, 93, 101, 103, 116, 181, 182 Typee, or, A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), Nuku Hiva, 213, 277 vi, 70, 76, 98, 109, 219, 220, 296 Fayaway, 233 Obuarei (Puarai), 242 Methodism, 90, 126 Oeno Island, 193, 285 Mexican-American War, 144 Oher (Hu), 201, 241, 243 Michener, James A., 1, 4, 10, 286, 290 Omai (Mai), 29, 230 Tales of the South Paciﬁc (1947), 1 Ondaatje, Michael, 295 Miller, Major-General William, 274 Orlebar, John, 26, 66, 71, 72, 81, 249 Mills, John, 22, 135, 243 Miner, Captain, 54, 55, 138, 139 Paine, Thomas, 125 Mitchell Library, 182, 299 Palmerston, Lord, 52, 56, 98, 111, 114, Mitford, Mary Russell, 128, 222, 224, 311 115, 120, 139, 144, 146 Christina, The Maid of the South Seas Panama Canal, 259 (1811), 128, 222, 311 Parker, Commodore William, 46 Moerenhout, Jacques-Antoine, 2, 82–87, Paulet Affair, 275, 276, 277 100, 101, 103, 108, 113, 114–115, Paulet, Captain Lord George, 275 121, 125, 127, 159, 170, 183, 184, Peard, George, 243 205, 207, 273 Peel, Sir Robert, 31 More, St. Sir Thomas, 283 Percival, Captain John (Mad Jack), 75 Moresby, Admiral Fairfax, 64, 130, Pipon, Captain, 23–26, 30, 63–68, 95, 227 214, 284 Pitcairn Island Morgan, Captain R. C., 129 Adamstown, 1, 2, 3, 56, 61, 77, 85, 87, Morrison, James, 90, 91, 133–135 117, 119, 124, 126, 127, 129, 130, Murray, Thomas Boyles, 80, 81, 266, 284 148–150, 151, 152, 158–160, Mystic, Connecticut, 145 162–165, 169, 171, 172, 174, 176, 180, 181, 182, 185, 202, 204–208, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 143–145 209, 210, 211, 212, 225, 233, 241, NASA, 16 243, 245, 254, 255, 256, 257, 261, National Maritime Museum, 264–270, 282–288, 291 Greenwich, 23 Agriculture at, 181, 206, 237

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Pitcairn Island (cont.) Poe, Edgar Allan, 10 Bounty Bay, 1, 2, 3, 7, 19, 61, 69, 74, 77, Polk, President James K., 144 152, 160, 162, 191, 193, 206, Polygeneticism, 232 236, 248 Polynesia, 16, 44 British Colonial Policy Toward, 120, History of, 17 131, 147, 154, 162, 164, 165, 170, Settlement of, 16, 17 173, 176, 185, 211, 261, 265, 266, Pomare,2,3,7 270, 281–288, 291 Pomare I (Tu), 91, 93 Christian’s Cave, 61, 62 Pomare II, 3, 91–94, 102 Civil War (1793), 22, 63, 135, 202, Pomare III, 99, 102–103, 182, 272 244 Pomare IV, 37, 38, 54–57, 93, 98–104, Constitution (1838), 176 113, 114, 118, 120, 138, 139, 159, Ecology of, 178–183, 189, 191–196, 200, 170, 182, 183, 261, 272, 274, 205–207, 211, 214 275, 280 Education at, 125, 152, 269 Pope Leo XII, 49, 107–110 Encountered by Europeans, 20, 23, 24, Princess Caraboo (Mary Baker, née 30, 63, 66, 67, 236 Willcoks), 277, 278, 304 Family Alliances at, 157–160, 258 Pritchard, George, 11, 31, 37, 54–59, Geography of, 1, 61, 190, 199, 200, 92–93, 98–104, 108, 109, 113–124, 215 127, 128, 131, 139, 157, 168–170, Geology of, 1, 190, 193 261, 273–275, 278–280 Goat House, 61, 68 Purea, 203, 235 Hill of Difﬁculty, 2, 77, 152, 162, 300 Historiography of, 6–10, 25, 36, 63, 70, Queen Elizabeth II, 286 71, 80, 83, 85, 95, 227, 233, 241, Queen Victoria, 280, 283 270, 281, 293, 294 Quintal, Arthur, 127, 161, 171–172 In Literature, 72, 128, 174, 178, 222 Quintal, Arthur, Jr, 161 In the Age of Decolonization, Quintal, Charlotte, 171 286–288, 290 Quintal, Edward, 31, 157, 160–161, In the Media, 185, 211 177, 268 Landownership at, 156, 161, 162, Quintal, John, 161 199–202, 208–211, 256 Quintal, Matthew, 22, 136, 160–161, 236, Laws of, 149, 160, 165, 207, 266, 244–246 267–271, 282, 290 Quintal, William, 152, 161 Location of, 20, 214 Place Names, 61 Ranke, Leopold von, 246 Population of, 3, 21, 22, 30, 85, 95, 134, Reciprocating Fountain (Ebbing and 150, 164, 180–181, 192, 193, 199, Flowing Spring), 33–35 204, 208, 212, 214, 223, 225, 228, Reform Act (1832), 151, 210 235, 240, 241, 242, 245, 251, 254, Reform Act (1867), 154 271, 287, 288 Republic of Kiribati, 282 Prison at, 125, 156 Revue De Paris,47 Religion at, 67–69, 124, 125, 177 Richards, Reverend Richard, 50 Removal to Norfolk Island (1856), Richards, Reverend William, 50 213–216, 227, 284 Rimatara, 282 Removal to Tahiti (1831), 37, 55, 71, 74, Ripon, Earl of, 38, 126, 149–151 76, 117, 121, 150, 159, 178–186, Rodgers, Richard, 290 212, 282, 285 Rougemont, Louis de, 276, 277, 278, Reputation of, 64–69, 72, 80, 84–87, 94, 304 118, 126, 128, 132, 213, 214, 227, Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 233 253, 263 Royal Society, 5, 35, 39, 47 Settlement of, 22, 24, 134, 135, 199, 203, Rurutu, 282 207, 209, 223, 228, 233, 236, Russell, Captain Lord Edward, 81, 129, 237, 242 173, 174, 176 Trials (2004), 288–291 Russia, 53, 59

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Sag Harbor, New York, 145 100, 103, 108, 113–118, 135, 141, Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket), 35 204, 228, 232, 233, 272, 279, 280 San Francisco, California, 83, 144–146, French Protectorate at, 280 259, 279, 285 Matavai Bay, 28, 57, 69, 91 Sandalwood, 3 Papeete, 54, 73, 138, 204 Sandilands, Captain Alexander A., 178, Pomare Dynasty, 54, 59 182, 183 War of Independence (1844–1847), 280 Scottish Missionary Society (SMS), 90 Tappa Cloth, 249 Scurvy, 13 Tapu System at Hawai‘i, 51, 107, 241 Sealers, 18 ‘Ai Noa (Breaking of the Tapu Second Continental Congress, 20 System), 106 Seventh-Day Adventism, 285 Taroamiva, 201 Sever, Captain William C., 28 Taruro (Talalo), 201, 242, 243 Seward, William Henry, 272 Tattoo, 239–240 Sexual Offences Act (1956), 290 Tay, John, 285 Shillibeer, John, 227 Te Moa, 243, 244 Sims, Sophia Elizabeth Guelph, 45–46 Teehuteatuaonoa (Jenny), 234, 235–238, Smith, Adam, 230, 231 240–248, 256 Smith, Alexander (John Adams), 22–26, Teirnua, 201 33, 57, 61–72, 75, 76, 79, 81, 82, 85, Temple of Elephanta (Bombay), 33 86, 87, 94, 95, 104, 116, 124, 126, Teraura (Susan, Susanah), 161, 248, 136, 152, 153, 157–161, 181, 207, 249 208, 223, 233, 236, 242–246, 255, Terra Australias Incognita, 86, 188 267, 287 Tetahiti (Taroamiva), 241 Death of, 72, 120, 126 Tevarua (Sarah), 161 Smyth, William, 21, 191, 192, 252 Thatcher, Margaret, 288 Snow, Philip, 305 The Bounty (1984), 292 Social Darwinism, 232 The Friend, 211 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge The Mirror, 185 (SPCK), 80, 87, 89, 115, 116, 214 The Sailors’ Magazine, 211 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Thierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de, (SPG), 89 213, 277–279, 304 Society Islands, 29 Thomas Hardy Tree, 302 South Paciﬁc (1949), 290 Thomas, Admiral Richard, 283 Southey, Robert, 137 Thurston, Lorrin A., 279 Spruson, J. J., 7 Thurston, Sir John Bates, 93 Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, 300 Tichborne Claimant, 277, 304 St. Helena, 190 Titusville, Pennsylvania, 272 St. Pancras Old Church, 302 Tonga, 90, 279 Staines, Captain Sir Thomas, 23–27, 30, Toofaiti (Hutia, Nancy), 242, 243 63, 66, 68, 87, 95, 116, 250 Topaz, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 67, 222 Stallworth, George, 121, 122, 175, 186 Townshend, Captain Lord George, 29, Stanley, Edward, 38 137, 138, 162–163 Staples, Robert Ponsoby, 36 Treaty of Waitangi, 274, 277 Stavers, Captain William, 248 Tubuai, 282 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 10, 11, 76, Tuileries, 33, 35 133, 259 Tupaia, 230 Treasure Island (1883), 133 Twain, Mark, 10, 12, 106, 155, 174, Straits of Magellan, 20 277, 300 Sutter, John, 58, 59, 83 “The Great Revolution in Pitcairn” Swallow,20 (1879), 300 Sydney Gazette, 237 United Nations, 287 Tahiti, 1–3, 14, 23, 28, 29, 31, 37, 38, USS Boston, 275 54–55, 71, 73, 74–76, 82, 87–93, USS Essex, 23, 36

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Vancouver, Captain George, 53, 104 Whalers, 18, 49, 50, 52, 54, 59, 73, 74, 119, Verne, Jules, 203 146, 147, 254, 272 Captain Nemo, 203 Whaling, 77, 143, 145, 272 Vestris, Armand, 47, 48 White, John, 169, 257 Vestris, August, 47 Wilberforce, William, 5, 37, 46 Vestris, Gaéton, 47, 48 William IV (HRH the Duke of Clarence), 5, Veuster, Jozef de (Father St. Damien of 33, 138 Molokai), 110 Williams, John (Jack), 22, 135, 242–243 Victoria, Queen, 79, 131, 175 Williams, Reverend John, 131 Willis, H.B., 250–253, 257 Waldegrave, Captain William, 26, 180, 181 Wood, Charles, 147 Wales, William, 238, 240 Wood, John, 95 Walker, William, 58 Woodmason, Mathias, 95–96 Wallis, Captain Samuel, 14, 20, 43, 54, 73, Woodward, Bob, 246 203, 204 Worrall, Samuel, 277 Walpole, Horace, 188 Worth, Captain Paul, 143 Walpole, John, 127 War of 1812, 23 Yeats, W. B., 9 Warren, Samuel, 215 Young, Edward (Ned), 22, 94, 136, 158, Washington, President George, 137, 158 160, 245–246, 248 Webster, Senator Daniel, 144 Young, James, 22 Wellington, Duke of, 45–46 Young, Mayhew, 215 Wesley, Charles, 126 Young, Moses, 215 Wesley, John, 88, 126 Young, Polly, 67 Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Young, Rosalind Amelia, 78, 122, 126, (WMMS), 89 161, 171 Wesleyanism, 126 Young, William, 161