Sydney Gazette, 10/27/1810

Captain Folger of the ship Topaz out of Boston landed at Pitcairn Island in 1810. He related that the only survivor of the mutiny at that time was Alexander Smith, who said the Bounty anchored offshore there in 1792 and then was run aground and broken up shortly thereafter. About four years later, after "a great jealousy existing," the Tahitian men killed everyone except Smith, who escaped with a severe wound to the neck with a pistol ball. The widows of the slain seamen then killed every Tahitian man, leaving Smith with nine women and several small children. He recovered from his wound and began to till the soil, growing "yams, cocoa nuts, bananas and plantains" with "hogs and poultry in abundance." As of the Topaz' landing, there were about 33 inhabitants, all able to speak English, and all of them looking to Smith as "the father and commander of them all." Before the massacre took place, Fletcher Christian "became insane shortly after their arrival on the island and threw himself off the rocks into the sea," with another man dying of a fever before the massacre occurred. "The island is badly supplied with water, sufficient only for the present inhabitants."

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