“Ancient Mariner”
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CHILMARK, Mass. </P) — Mar
tha’s Vineyard’s last whaling skip
per, Capt. Ellesworth L. West,
died during the night in his H9th
year.
Capt. West began whale hunt
ing at 17 and was master of his
own vessel at 25. He made many
voyages to the Arctic chasing the
bow head before the gold rush of
’93 attracted his attention.
He purchased the revenue cut
ter Bear from the government and
carried gold seekers from San
Francisco to Alaska. He generally
was credited with making the first
charts of the Inside Alaskan Pas
sage and also with opening the
first coal mine in Alaska, from
which he furnished coal to Nome.
The Bear, as the Bear of Oak
land, later was used by Rear Ad
miral Richard E. Byrd in Antarc
tic exploration.
Forrestal Resting
Comfortably
WASHINGTON, UP) — Former
secretary of defense James For
restal was reported in "satisfac
tory condition” today at the naval
medical center at nearby Bethse
da, Md.
Hospital authorities said that
Forrestal, who became a patient
there a week ago, was resting
comfortably. The hospital said he
was under-going a routine check
up. Former associates said over
the weekend that he is suffering
from nervous exhaustion.
Forrestal, 57, retired from the
top defense post March 28. He was
succeeded by Louis Johnson.
Walter Glavinovich returned
home today, having been called to
Seattle due to the death of his
mother .
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Society Returns
Historic “Bounty”
Bible to Pitcairn
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One of the most stirring tales of
the sea—the mutiny on the “Boun
ty”—is recalled by the news that
the original ship’s Bible, the most
important relic of that ill-fated
vessel, is soon to go back to the
, lonely Pacific home of the mutin
eers’ descendants on Pitcairn Is
land. It is being returned, on per
manent loan to the islanders, by
the generosity of the Connecticut
Historical Society in whose owner
ship it is been since U;90.
i This ‘•mutineers” Bible has far
more significance for the inhabi
tants of Pitcairn Island than its
| value as a mere museum piece.
, The whole culture of the islanders
dates back to the last of the mu
tineers, who, with only this Bible
I as his textbook, undertook the
care and upbringing of the mutin
eers’ children.
Pitcairn Island was discovered
in 1767, by Captain Phillip Car
! teret of the British sloop “Swal
low.” Carteret was struck with
the island’s possibilities for colon
. ization purposes and named it
Pitcairn, after the midshipman
who first sighted it.
When .the “Bounty,” under the
command of Captain Bligh. sailed
from England on December 23.
1767. to procure breadfruit plants
from the South Pacific Islands and
take them to the English planta
tions in the West Indies it carried
on board an account of Carteret’s
discovery.
Soon alter leaving Tahiti, early
in 1789, half of the crew of the
“Bounty” mutinied and seized the
ship. Bligh. and 18 others, were
cast off and made vtheir historic
3,800 mile voyage to the Dutch In
dies in an open boat, while the
mutineers, with the captured ves
sel returned to Tahiti.
Most of the rebel crew wanted
to remain and live in this delight
ful Pacific haven, but a few wish-,
ed to seek a safer refuge from the
long arm of British law. Eventu
ally nine survivors of the mutiny
accompanied by six Tahitian men
and 12 Tahitian women sailed
away in the “Bounty” and. guided
by Carteret's accounts, occupied
Pitcairn Island early in the year
1790.
Their fears of British justice
proved well-founded. The mutin
eers who remained on Tahiti were
discovered, in March 1791, by a
British warship, and taken to Eng
land where some of them were
hanged.
But the early history of the lit- ,
tie colony of Pitcairn was filled!
with' disaster. After ten years,
| only one of the original 15 men
remained alive. Five of the white i
men had been killed by the Tahi
tians,' who in turn became the vic
tims of the remaining mutineers.
The sole man survivor was John
Adams, who, left with only a few
women and children, settled down
to govern the island by strict dis
cipline and religious observances
in which the Bible taken from the
“Bounty” became of such great
importance.
The fate of the “Bounty” was
not disclosed to the outside world
until 1808, when the American
whaler “Topaz” put in at Pitcairn
Island and its surprised crew was
met by half-caste children speak
ing English.
Because of his success in es
tablishing a well-ordered commu
nity, John Adams was forgiven by
the British Government for his
part in the “Bounty” mutiny, and
.the Pitcairn colony was left un
disturbed to follow its very dif
ficult life in the vast expanse of
ocean 3,500 miles wide.
By the middle of the 19th cen
tury as many as 50 ship sa year
called at Pitcairn Island, which
in 1898 was brought under Brit
ish Colonial Administration.
But the famous Bible had long
since left the Island. The generos
ity of the simple islanders had not
been proof against the blandish
ments of souvenir hunters, and a
grandson of John Adams had
given it to Levi Hayden, a whal
ing sailor from Windsor, Connect
icut in 1839. After Hayden's death
in 1888 the Bible was passed on to
his cousin, H. Sidney Hayden,
whose widow Abbv Loomis Hay
den gave it to the Connecticut His
torical Society in 1896.
The Western Pacific High Com
missiqn of the British Colonial
Service has now established a
school and community center on
Pitcairn Island and Mr. A. W. Mn
verley, education officer, in en
deavoring to recover relics of the
“Bounty.” recently approach e d
the Connecticut Historical Society
with an earnest request that the
bible should be returned, in view
of "the veneration with which it is
still regarded by these essentially
religious people 'all the Islanders
are now Seventh Day Adventists'
and the event it will be in their
history to welcome home and see
safely housed in their midst so
precious a thing as this is to
them.”
On the 6th of January this year,
the Society, believing “that items
of this nature, which are so close
ly connected with the history of
any community should, when pos
sible, be kept in that community
where they can be available to ‘he
inhabitants” resolved that the Bi
ble should be presented on perm
anent loan to the British Govern
mental authorities on Pitcairn Is
la nd.
At this moment the Bible is in
Washington, in the care of Sir Ol
iver Franks, British Ambassador,
who is arranging for its onward
transmission to Pitcairn Bland.
The Bible was printed sometime
between 1760 and 1787, when the
“Bounty” left England on its fate
ful voyage. It is bound in heavy
calf and measures 7 by 4It inches
and is 21i> inches thick. The title
page is missing, and the book
shows sign of much use.
Trans-Pacific aviation and ra
dio have now brought the Pitcairn
Island inhabitants into closer con
tact with the outside world. In
1938, two American philanthro
pists presented them with a first
class radio transmitter and receiv
ing station.
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(By Cecily Brcwnstone)
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3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
IV2 cups milk
Vz teaspoon salt
Dash black pepper
2 cups cooked whole-grain corn
4 cups cooked green beans
\ > cup grated yellow cheese
Melt the butter in a saucepan
over heat: add the flour and blend
thoroughly. Remove from heat
.and add milk gradually, stirring
with a whisk until entirely smooth
after each addition. Add the salt
and pepper and mix well. Return
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BUTTERMILK WAFFLES
1 cup sifted flour
•" i teaspoon baking powder
1 ; teaspoon baking soda
1 ■> teaspoon salt.
1 tablespoon sugar
1 egg 'separated'
■" j cup buttermilk
1 j cup butter 'melted'
Mix and sift flour, baking pow
der. baking soda, salt, and sugar
into medium-sized mixing bowl.
Beat the egg white until stiff. Add
the egg yolk to the buttermilk and
beat with rotary beater until
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ingredients and pou* in the butter
milk and egg yolk mixture. St.r
slightly. Pour in the melted butter;
mix quickly, just enough to finish
moistening dry ingredients. Fold
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3 or 4 largo carrots
Vi cup water
Vi teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
| 2 teaspoons sugar
Wash and scrape carrots and cut
in one-quarter-inch slices. Remove
centers with a very small cutte:
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tender. Drain, reserving water
and add butter and sugar. Shake
about until heated through an<
delicately brown.
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