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Show The l'ltcAlru,IsInn1ers. Tho schooner John Palmer, Captain Delano, now at Honolulu, stopped nt Pltcalm Island on her wny theie from Austtalla, and leeched n lot of ficsh fruit and piovlslons from the descendants descend-ants of the mutineers of the Bounty, nnd gave them In lctiirn some news of the outside woild that was most grateful grate-ful to them. "The islanders nro well and happy," said Captain Delano, "or nt least they were nil well nnd happy on tho 7th of January, when I touched there. I laid tho ship close Into tho Island, where there Is n llist-class anchorage on the northwest slde,,iiud they biought us off fruit nnd egctnbles and fresh foods of nil kinds. I did not see thti Governor Gov-ernor of tho island. IIo was away oil n visit to Maiigarlvn, one of tho Pemo-tus, Pemo-tus, to get tho -mall for the Islanders. They have bought n little sloop lately nnd they run down to Mnngnrlvn often to got their mall nnd mnll lotters to the outside world. It Is ninety miles away, about, but they think little of thnt. In fact, that sloop Is to the Pltcalm Islanders Isl-anders something like What the cablo ls"to Honolulu folks. "There mo lfiO peoplo on the island now In the latlo of about thrco women to one man, 'and they all seem In the best of health and splilts. Miss Young is still a kind of queen among them. They nil follow her lend In everything, nnd her school Is Jit n nourishing condition." condi-tion." Snn Finnclsco Bulletin. |