The "chigoe" or jigger. This insect is so extremely diminutive that it is seldom observed. Hav-selves vehemently in the contrary direction. The ing pierced the flesh of a person, it deposits its eggs (which are contained in a little sac) and there leaves them to their natural development. The sac rapidly increases in size, until it becomes as large as a common pea, when it begins to occasion a sensible degree of pain. On first feeling this disagreeable sensation, the bag ought to be carefully extracted, otherwise a troublesome sore is apt to be produced.

on his feet, but how different from the magnificent | enough to obtain from Arthur Quintal, one of the two animal who had stood, in his native pride and dignity, male survivors of the immediate offspring of the pawing that sandy soil an hour before! Weak-mutineers, a verbal recital of the actual occurrences hardly able to stand-his head drooping, and his eyes without a ray―he looked like a miserable spectre of his former self-like a monarch dragged from his throne, who has been scoffed at by those whom he had before despised, and forced to be a wretched and miserable slave!

The persecution of the horse was by no means concluded. As soon as he had recovered somewhat from his exhaustion he was mounted by a naked Indian, who was rewarded for his temerity by being thrown to a considerable distance over the head of the animal. The native, however, was but little hurt, and in a few moments again resumed his dangerous seat. This time he kept his place, notwithstanding the vast efforts of the animal to shake him off; in fact, the horse and his rider, being nearly of the same color, brought vividly to my mind the remembrance of an ancient Centaur.

The animal was now held tightly by a long rope, and forced to run round and round in a circle. Whenever he flagged, or manifested the slightest obstinacy, a native, with a heavily knotted cord swinging around his head, would give him a terrible blow on his flanks, the pain of which was almost sufficient to drive him to madness. Gradually he became more and more passive, and at the end of another hour was quite tractable.

From the Athenæum.

attending the first settlement, which he committed to writing on the spot. This strange story, though known in part and often referred to, has never been told before in its correct outlines, much less in all its details. Thus ran the narrative as related by Quintal to our traveller :—

When the Bounty came here, there were nine Englishmen, six Tahiti men, twelve Tahiti women, and a little girl, landed. The Englishmen had each a Tahitian woman for a wife, and three of the Tahitian men were married to the remaining three women. Some time afterwards Williams' wife died of sickness. The Englishmen then combined together, and took one of the Tahitians' wives for another wife for Williams. This created the first disturbance between the English and the Tahitians. William Brown was sent out by the English government in the Bounty, as gardener, to look out after the breadfruit plants, which the said vessel was to convey to the West Indies. Brown and Christian were very intimate, and their two wives overheard, one night, Williams' second wife sing a song-" Why should the Tahitian men sharpen their axes to cut off the Englishmen's heads?" Brown and Christian's wives told their husbands what Williams' second wife had been singing. When Christian heard of it, he went by himself with his gun to the house where all the Tahitian men were assembled. He pointed his gun at them, but

Pitcairn's Island, and the Islanders, in 1850. By it missed fire. Two of the natives ran away into

WALTER BRODIE. Whittaker.

the bush-one of them to the west part of the island, the other to the south end of the island. The Tahi

THE brief story of the Pitcairn Islanders abounds tian (Talalo) who went to the west side was the husin points of romance and popular interest. The band of Williams' second wife. One day Talalo natural beauty of the island-the mystery attaching saw his wife, and the wives of the other Tahitian to its ancient inhabitants-the extraordinary scenes men, fishing; he beckoned to her, and she went to connected with the cruise of the Bounty-the sub- him. He then took her away into the bush. Another sequent mutiny against Capt. Bligh-the perilous wife in the bush. Tahitian, named Temua, then joined Talalo and his After this, Christian and the voyage by which he escaped to tell the exciting tale other Englishman sent a Tahitian (Manale) in search the after-career of Christian and his comrades until of them; he was not long away before he found they settled on the island-the terrible tragedies them, and then returned and told the Englishmen which one by one cut off the mutineers, until Adams, of it. The Englishmen then consulted among themof all the guilty and gallant crew, was left alone in selves what to do, when they agreed to make three the midst of a population of mixed blood and inferior poison in it, was to be given to Talalo, and the other puddings and send them. One pudding, having caste the wondrous change wrought in this rude two were to be given to the wife of Talalo and the sailor's mind by the last deed of blood-the gentle, Tahitian (Temua) who had joined them. The pudpacific, and religious system which he introduced on dings were sent by the native, Manale, who gave the island in his old age-and the patriarchal rever- them to the three natives individually; but a susence with which the last of those ferocious and law-picion coming across Talalo's mind that his pudding less men was regarded by the whole body of their descendants,-combine into a story every line of which is full of curious and absorbing interest. Except in Defoe, there is scarcely anything in the whole range of fiction to compare with the adventures of Bligh, as recorded by himself, after being turned adrift from the Bounty and poetry and romance have both been busy with the marvellous tale of Christian and his comrades. Byron especially has made a hero of the former,-

But Christian of a higher order stood
Like an extinct volcano in his mood-
Silent, and sad, and savage-

and thrown a halo about his companions, under the
names of Ben Bunting and Jack Skyscrape, all of
which, in our opinion, render these figures not only
less striking than the originals, but altogether destroy
the moral of their fate. Mr. Brodie was fortunate

had poison in it, he would not eat it, but eat his wife's pudding along with her. When Manale found that Talalo would not eat his pudding, he induced the three to go up into the bush a little way, where he told them he had left his wife among some breadfruit trees. As they went up to see Manale's wife, the foot-path being very narrow, they walked behind Manale, having a pistol with him, and having instruceach other, Manale being behind and next to Talalo. tions to kill Talalo before he returned, now took the opportunity, and pulled the trigger of his pistol, it being pointed at Talalo's head; but it misfired. Talalo having heard the noise occasioned by the trigger being pulled, turned round, and saw the pistol in Manale's hand. Talalo then ran away and Manale after him; they then had a severe struggle, when Talalo called to his wife to help him kill Manale, and Manale told the woman she must help him kill her husband, which she did; and in a very short time Manale and Talalo's wife killed Talalo.

Manale, the woman, and the other native (Temua), then returned to the European settlement. Williams

then took the woman again for his second wife, as he | M'Coy then ran to Matthew Quintal, and told him to had formerly done. Christian and the other English-run into the bush. Quintal and M'Coy then took to men then sent Manale to find the other Tahitian the bush, and Quintal told his wife to go and tell the (Ohuhu), who had gone to the south side of the other Englishmen what had happened. While she island, whom he also soon found, and then reported was going along she called out to John Adams, who his success to the Englishmen. The English then was working in his garden, and asked him why he sent Manale and another Tahitian (Temua) to kill was working this day, she thinking that he had heard him, which they succeeded in doing, while pretending of everything that had taken place. Adams did not to cry over him. They then returned home again to understand her; she said no more, but went away, the Europeans. The whole of the Bounty people then without telling Adams anything about the murders. lived together for some time (about ten years) in per- The four natives then ran down to Martin's house, fect harmony. The six Tahitian men from the Bounty and finding him in his garden, ran up to him and were brought down as servants to M'Coy, Mills, asked if he knew what had been done this morning. Brown, and Quintal. This island, when these people He said "No." They then pointed two muskets at came here, was completely covered with sea-birds, and his stomach, and pulled the triggers, and said, “We when they arose they completely darkened the air. have been doing the same as shooting hogs.' He These remaining four natives were employed to work laughed at them, not suspecting anything the matter; in collecting a lot of these birds for their masters' they then immediately recocked their muskets, and food, after they had done their work in their masters' again pulled the triggers. The muskets going off the gardens; they also fed their pigs, which they brought second time, Martin fell wounded, but not killed. from Tahiti, on these sea-birds. Whenever the Tahi- He then got up and ran to his house, the natives foltians did anything amiss, they used to be beaten by lowing hin. ; when they got hold of one of the Bounty's their masters, and their wounds covered with salt, as sledge-hammers, which they found in his house, and an extra punishment. The consequence was, that beat his brains out. They then went to Brown's two of these Tahitians, Temua and Nehou, took to the house, and found him working in his garden. They bush, and with them each a musket and ammunition, fired at him and killed him. Adams, hearing the with which they used to practise firing at a target in report of the guns when Brown and Martin were the bush. Edward Young had a garden some little killed, went to see what was the matter. When he distance from the settlement; and the two natives arrived at Brown's house he saw the four natives which took to the bush used at times to come and standing leaning on the muzzles of their guns, the work for him, as well as the other two natives, who butt of their muskets being upon the ground. Adams lived in the settlement. Young appeared to be very asked them what was the matter. They said "Mafriendly with the Tahitians; and John Adams men- mu!" (silence.) They then pointed their guns at tioned that he had every reason for supposing that him, when he ran away, the natives following him; Young had instigated the natives to destroy the but he soon left them behind. He then went into Englishmen, excepting himself (John Adams), Young Williams' house, with the intention of getting some wishing to keep Adams as a sort of companion. At thick clothes to go into the bush with, when he displanting time, each Englishman had his own garden, covered that he had been killed. He, however, took which were some distance apart from each other, being some thick clothes from the house, and returned to in separate valleys, on the north end of the island. his own house round by the rocks. He then took a Three of the Tahitians, finding that the whole of the bag from his own house, and, whilst putting some Englishmen were widely scattered and unprotected, yams into it to take into the bush, he was fired upon commenced to destroy them, beginning with John by the natives, and a ball passed in at the back of his Williams and Fletcher Christian. At the time they neck and came out of the front of his neck. He then shot Christian, Christian hallooed out. Mills, M'Coy, fell; when the four natives approached him, and atand Manale, were then working about 200 yards from tempted to kill him with the butt end of a musket; Christian's garden, and M'Coy hearing Christian call but he guarded himself with his hand, and had one out "Oh dear!" told Mills he thought it the cry of a of his fingers broken by so doing. After struggling wounded man; but Mills thought it was Christian's for some time, he managed to get away, and ran off, wife calling him to dinner. After the three Tahitians and the natives after him. When he had got some had killed Christian, they then went to where Mills distance ahead of them, the natives cried out for him was working, and one of them (the other two being to stop, which he refused, saying that they wanted to concealed in the bush) called to Mills, and asked him kill him. "No, we do not want to kill you; we for to let his native, Manale, go along with them to fetch got what Young told us about leaving you alive for home a large pig they had just killed. Mills then his (Young's) companion." Adams then went to told Manale that he might go. Manale then joined Young's house with the four natives, and found the three Tahitians, when they told Manale that they Young there. The natives then went into the mounhad killed Williams and Christian, and wanted to tains, armed, to try and find M'Coy and Quintal, and know how they might destroy Mills and M'Coy. It after several days' search they found them along with was at last agreed that these three men should creep Quintal's wife, in M'Coy's house, which was up the into M'Coy's house, unobserved; which they suc- mountain. When they found them, they were all ceeded in doing. Manale then ran and told M'Coy asleep. The natives fired upon them, but did not that the two natives that had taken to the bush were wound any of them. They then took to the bush robbing his house. M'Coy then ran to his house, and again. After this the four natives returned to the as soon as he got to the door these three natives fired settlement again. One evening, when Young's wife upon him, but did not kill him. Minale, seeing that was playing on the fife, Manale, one of the other na they had not killed him, seized him; but M'Coy, being tives being present, became jealous at Temua's singthe strongest of the two, threw him into the pigsty, ing to Young's wife. Manale then took up a musket and then ran and told Mills to run into the bush, as and fired at Temua, which only wounded him. Tethe natives were trying to kill all the white men. But mua immediately told the woman to bring him a Mills would not believe that his friend Manale would musket to shoot Manale. Manale in the mean time kill him. M'Coy then ran to tell Christian, but found reloaded his musket, and shot Temua dead. The two that he had been murdered already. About this time, other natives then became much annoyed, and threatM'Coy heard the report of a gun, which he supposed ened to kill Manale. Manale then took to the bush, had killed Mills, and which turned out to be the case. and joined Quintal and M'Coy; but they would not M'Coy then ran to Christian's wife, who was at her have anything to do with him until he put his musket house, and told her that her husband had been killed. down, which they took possession of. He then told Having been confined that day, she could not move. them of what had taken place, and said that he had

Adams now became very serious. It is said that he taught himself to read and write in his old ageafter which his chief employment consisted in communicating these arts to his own children and those of his former friends. When the island was first visited by a civilized crew, it presented no trace of the foul passions and deadly quarrels of which it had

been the scene.

The Nemesis of blood had had its victims and departed. Innocence and moral simplicity reigned in every family-and it is doubtful whether the fabled Arcadia of peace and homely virtue has ever been so nearly realized in practice as on Pitcairn's Island.

Of Mr. Brodie's book we need say little. It is characterized by poverty of thought and poverty of style; but the writer has seen the world under many aspects, and his comparisons sometimes have a certain use. The chief value of his present book lies in the paragraph which we have quoted at length.

AN account of the following interesting experiment, made at the Royal Institution a few weeks ago by H. F. Talbot, Esq., has been presented to the Royal So

come to join them and be their friend. Manale then | were against it. He then threatened all their lives. persuaded Quintal and M'Coy to go down with him Soon after this they got him to drink, and made him to the settlement, so that they might kill the other intoxicated, when the three Europeans killed him with two Tahitians. When within a few yards of the house an axe. After this, M'Coy drank to excess. At where the natives were, Manale saw the two natives, times he used to be away from home for a week, and and sprang upon the stoutest of them. Quintal and no one knew where he was gone. At last he fastened M'Coy, thinking it a scheme of Manale's to entrap a large stone round his neck, and jumped into the them, made off for the bush again; but such was not sea, where he was drowned. The day previous to the case. Manale soon after joined M'Coy and Quin- M'Coy drowning himself, Young died of asthma. tal. Adams and Young then wrote them a letter, and Adams was now the only man upon the island. sent it by Quintal's wife, to persuade them to kill their new friend, Manale; which they succeeded in doing, by shooting him with his own gun, which he gave them when he went to make friends with them. After this, the two remaining Tahitians again went in search of M'Coy and Quintal, when they found them under a tree. They fired upon them, but did not wound either of them. They again ran away from the natives, and, whilst running, M'Coy cut his foot with a piece of wood. The natives, seeing the blood, thought they had wounded him, and then went home and told Young they had wounded M'Coy. Young then sent his wife and Martin's widow round to find M'Coy and Quintal, and to see if either of them were wounded. Young told his wife to tell them that on a certain day they all intended to kill the two remaining Tahitians, and that a certain signal would be made to that effect. These two women then returned, and told Young that neither of them were wounded. The plan was now arranged to kill these other two natives in the following manner :-Young persuaded Brown's widow to go to bed with Tetihiti, the most powerful of the two Tahitians, and cautioned her on no account to put her arm under the Tahitian's head when she went to sleep, as his wife intended to cut his head off with an axe as soon as he went to sleep. When Young's wife had killed this Tahitian, she was to make a signal to her husband to fire upon the other Tahitian, by shooting him with his musket; but dur-ciety, and to the Académie des Sciences at Paris :ing the time that Young was loading his musket, the young Tahitian told Young to double load it, the young Tahitian thinking that Young was going out to shoot M'Coy and Quintal. Young answered, "Yes, I will." Young's wife then struck the stout Tahitian in his bed, but did not hit him fair. The stout Tahitian, upon getting up in his bed, was struck a second time with the axe, which killed him dead; at which time she told her husband to fire, which signal he obeyed, and blew the young Tahitian's head nearly off his shoulders. Thus ends the tragedy of the Tahitians. The signal was then made to M'Coy and Quintal to come down, as the two Tahitians were killed; but they would not believe it. Young then cut the hands off the two dead Tahitians, and sent them up by some of the women to M'Coy and Quintal, as a sort of certificate that the two Tahitians were A printed paper was fixed upon the surface of a really dead. Upon the women delivering the hands wheel. A camera was carefully adjusted to give a to them, M'Coy and Quintal then descended the correct image of this wheel. The room was then. mountain along with the women, and reached the darkened, and a very sensitive plate was placed in the house of Young in safety. They all now remained camera-the wheel was turned by a handle until it upon friendly terms for some time. Young took two acquired a great velocity-the greatest, in fact, which of the widows into his house (Williams' and Chris-could be given to it. At this moment the camera was : tian's) and three children; Adams took Mills' widow and two children, and the widows of two of the Tahitian men; M'Coy took Brown's widow, and Quintal took Martin's widow into their houses. Adams and Williams lost their wives previous to this bloody tragedy, in 1793. Young was a half West Indian, born in St. Kitts. Whilst there he learned how to make spirits. By his knowledge of making them there he soon made them here, out of the ti-root, by the aid of a large copper boiler which came out of the Bounty. The consequence was, that they all took to drinking at times, and many quarrels ensued. Quintal, about this time, lost his wife, she having been killed by falling over the rocks, while searching after birds' nests. Quintal, after the loss of his wife, wanted to marry another one, but the rest of the white men CCCLXXXII. LIVING AGE. VOL. XXX. 32

INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGENIC IMAGES.-It has long been a desideratum in photographic science to obtain a truly instantaneous portrait of a body in rapid motion. Some experimenters have indeed published what they call "instantaneous processes"; but it will readily be understood that this is merely a phrase expressive of rapidity-and that such processes do not in fact give distinct images of bodies moving swiftly across the field of view.

A photographic process recently invented by Mr. Talbot having appeared to him to exceed in sensibility any other with which he was acquainted, he resolved to try whether it were possible to obtain by means of it an instantaneous image. The experiment was tried! at the Royal Institution, and proved successful. The arrangements adopted were as follows:

opened, and a powerful electric battery was discharged in front of the wheel, illuminating it with a sudden flash of brilliant light. The sensitive plate was then taken out of the camera, and the image was developed. The plate was found to contain an image of the words printed on the paper-and it was remarkable to observe that there was no indistinctness of outline in them, notwithstanding the rapid motion of the wheel.

The valuable uses to which this novel fact in Photography can be applied are too obvious to require to be specifically pointed out. It will only be necessary for photographers to devise convenient and easy methods of obtaining the electric spark and throwing it on the object, and we shall be able to arrest and embody the most fugitive phenomena which present themselves to the eye.-Athenæum.

MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE. CHAPTER XIII.

I every sorrow.