Show ISLAND IS LONELY I 1 natives oc occupying spot peopled by about 50 have degenerated through intermarriage rome nome Is where the heart Is but the henrt heart picks out some most unusual locations at times rather near as pacific ocean distances go to the lie society island Islan dj Is 1 island it Is 19 certainly a lonesome spot says the lie new york rork sun san and as far back bach as 1856 the rb authorities decided that it wai was no fit place for human habitation so the descendants ot of the mutineers muti of it the bounty who lind had settled there in 1790 were transferred that year to the more inviting a norfolk island several families however were so homesick that they went back to pitcairn the population from these few families has now increased until about people are on the island through intermarriage ter marriage and other evils of isolation these islanders have degenerated and their retrogression undoubtedly will end in their extermination |