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 sketch¹ a community for whom I have the highest admiration², the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty³, who I maintain are a standing⁴ proof of the miraculous⁵ 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 Christian⁶ who is one indeed may fare.

 

FRANK T. BULLEN.

 

Melbourn, Cambs.,

   September, 1907.

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