this perhaps should rather be called a prefatory note, since all the introduction to my book that i deem necessary is to say that in it i have endeavoured to sketch a community for whom i have the highest admiration, the descendants of the mutineers of the bounty, who i maintain are a standing proof of the miraculous power of the gospel in the regeneration of mankind when unhindered by sacerdotal interference. and in order to make the subject as full as possible, i have taken one typical islander, the bounty boy, out of his surroundings into the world, and told his adventures therein with a view of showing how the christian who is one indeed may fare.

frank t. bullen.

melbourn, cambs.,

september, 1907.