r her husband.
Kelly himself was captured by a king's ship in 1808, and sent to
England, where he was hanged for piracy. Lancaster was also captured by
the master of an American whale-ship, _The Brothers_ of Nantucket, and
taken to Sydney and hanged. The rest of the mutineers either met with
violent deaths at the hands of the Maoris, or succeeded in living their
lives out as pakeha-Maoris.

Of the other woman--Charlotte Badger--and her child nothing further was
known, save that in 1808 she and the child were offered a passage to
Port Jackson by Captain Bunker; but she declined, saying she would
rather live with the Maoris than return to New South Wales to be hanged.
This was not unnatural.

But, long afterwards, in the year 1826, an American whale-ship, the
_Lafayette_ of Salem, reported an incident of her cruise that showed
some light on the end of Charlotte Badger.

In May 1826, the _Lafayette_ was off 'an unknown island in the South
Seas. It was covered with trees, was about three miles long, and was
inhabited by a small number of natives. The position of this island was
in 22 deg. 30 min. south, 176 deg. 19. min. west.' The weather being
calm at the time and the natives, by the signs and gestures they made to
the ship, evidently friendly, the captain and second mate's boats were
lowered, and, with well-armed crews, pulled ashore. Only some forty or
fifty natives of a light brown colour were on the island, and these,
meeting the white men as they landed, conducted them to their houses
with every demonstration of friendliness. Among the number was a native
of Oahu (Hawaii), named Hula, who had formed one of the crew of the
London privateer _Port-au-prince_, a vessel that had been cut off by
the natives of the Haabai Group, in the Friendly Islands, twenty years
previously. He spoke English well, and informed Captain Barthing of the
_Lafayette_ that the island formed one of the Tonga Group (it is now
known as Pylstaart Island), and that his was the second ship that had
ever visited the place. Another ship, he said, had called at the island
about ten years before (this would be about 1816); that he had gone off
on board, and had seen a very big, stout woman, with a little girl about
eight years of age with her. At first he thought, from her dark skin,
that she was a native, but the crew of the ship (which was a Nantucket
whaler) told him that she was an Englishwoman, who had escaped from
captivity with the Maoris.