who creeping up to the place where they were
asleep, distinguished them from the natives by feeling their toes; as
people unaccustomed to wear shoes are easily discovered from the spread
of their toes. Next day Mr. Hayward attacked them, but they grounded
their arms without opposition; their hands were bound behind their back
and sent down to the boat under a strong guard.

During the whole business there was only two natives killed; one was shot
in the dusk of the evening, two nights before the people surrendered, by
one of the centinels, who had his musket twice beat out of his hand from
the natives pelting our party with large stones; but the instant he was
shot, some of his friends rushed in and carried off the corpse.

The other native was shot by the mutineers; when attacked by the natives
they took to a river; a stone being thrown by one of the natives at the
wife, or woman, of one of the mutineers, enraged him so much, that he
immediately shot the offender.

A prison was built for their accommodation on the quarter deck, that they
might be secure, and apart from our ship's company; and that it might
have every advantage of a free circulation of air, which rendered it the
most desirable place in the ship. Orders were likewise given that they
should be victualled, in every respect in the same as the ship's company,
both in meat, liquor, and all the extra indulgencies with which we were
so liberally supplied, notwithstanding the established laws of the
service, which restricts prisoners to two-thirds allowance: but Captain
Edwards very humanely commiserated with their unhappy and inevitable
length of confinement. Oripai, the king's brother, a discerning,
sensible, and intelligent chief, discovered a conspiracy amongst the
natives on shore to cut our cables should it come to blow hard from the
sea. This was more to be dreaded, as many of the prisoners were married
to the most respectable chiefs' daughters in the district opposite to
where we lay at anchor; in particular one, who took the name of Stewart,
a man of great possession in landed property, near Matavy Bay: a
gentleman of that name belonging to the _Bounty_ having married his
daughter, and he, as his friend and father-in law, agreeable to their
custom, took his name.

Ottoo the king, his two brothers, and all the principal chiefs, appeared
extremely anxious for our safety; and after the prisoners were on board,
kept watch during the night; were always k