The story we are going to tell today takes place on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, Pitcairn Island, the only British colony in the Pacific Archipelago. And the discovery of this colony. Originated from the defection of 9 British soldiers.
Pitcairn Island was first discovered by the Portuguese navigator Queiros, when the island was not inhabited. The Portuguese, anxious to discover the new colony, did not stay on the island for long. It was not until 1767 that the British rediscovered the island and named it after the british warrant officer PeteCairn, who first saw the island.
More than a decade later, a battleship full of baobab saplings, the Bundy, sailed across the vast expanse of the sea. They headed towards their destination, the West Indies. In order to transplant ships full of saplings in the colonies to solve the food problems of the large number of black people. The Empire's colonies spanned the entire ocean, and the growing power led to a very strict hierarchy within the navy, and like other captains, Captain William of the Bondi was a grumpy and well-tempered freak.
Years of life on the sea made him grumpy, scolding the ship's water, and often withholding the salaries of soldiers. Perennial oppression caused the soldiers of the whole ship to be in extreme anxiety for many years. Finally on a typhoon night. Humiliated First Officer Adams led the sailors in a mutiny. They bundled William and his supporters to the ship, threw some water and food, and drove another ship with supplies to make deserters.
Dozens of British deserters. Paddling in a small boat. Travel to the holy place of your heart, where there is no fatigue and oppression, and there is infinite freedom that people yearn for. And this place is pitcairn Island, which is far from Tahiti, and the easy-to-defend terrain and cliffs all over the place make it a natural fortress, and the uninhabited desert island does not attract much attention, and it is a well-deserved sea paradise.
Life was hard at the beginning, due to lack of preparation. They didn't carry much of the means of production and tools. Food on Pitcairn Island was also scarce and could not meet the needs of the soldiers' market. In desperation, Adams had to sneak back to Tahiti Island with his companions in makeup to make the final supplies. Harsh environment. Dividing the original 25-man team, only 9 soldiers followed Adams firmly, recruiting 18 (6 men and 12 women) of Tahiti natives to join them in the Holy Land to clear the wilderness.
In order to hide his tracks, he once again boarded Adams and his party on Pitcairn Island. Burned down the battleship and intended to spend the rest of his life here. They cultivate land on the island and build their homes with their hands. But there was always a certain gap between ideals and reality, and just as they were preparing to usher in the island's first harvest year, the baobab trees that had been exposed to fruit were ruined by wild boars, and they had no rest of the food reserves at that time, and within a year, there was a serious food crisis on the island.
A battle for survival broke out suddenly. Adams and the soldiers naturally formed an offensive and defensive alliance against the recruited natives, although there were 18 natives, but most of the women had formed families with the British soldiers, the power of the natives was greatly reduced under the constraints of marriage, the outcome of the war was not suspenseful, in front of the British soldiers who had received military training, several male natives were slaughtered, and only 4 soldiers were left, and only 10 female natives were left.
Once again, the dull days came. But the tree wants to be quiet and the wind is not stopping, and in the face of increasingly scarce resources, the evil of human nature will be sharply magnified, and greed will always have the upper hand. Not long after, 4 soldiers fought again in order to compete for resources, and 2 died of wounds. A year later, a pneumonia took the life of another soldier. The only remaining adult male, Adams, became the owner of the island.
As administrator of the island, Adams made English the official language of Pitcairn Island and established a church. Once again, calm has returned to Pitcairn Island. Until more than a decade later. An American whaling ship accidentally sailed into the waters off Pitcairn Island. They found some teenagers of seemingly white descent approaching them in canoes. After some negotiations, the Americans found that the residents spoke fluent English, and it was not until they saw the elderly Adams after landing on the island that they revealed the doubts in the hearts of the people.
The departure of the Americans also brought this decades-old secret to the outside world, and upon learning the news, the British Navy immediately organized a fleet to land on Pitcairn Island and capture the traitor Adams. Because Adams did not resist and was old, the court only made a symbolic judgment, and in 1829 Adams completed his legendary life.
It wasn't until 1997 that a British journalist inadvertently interviewed her to uncover the squalor hidden beneath the hideout of the hideout — that the island's women had been sexually assaulted almost as minors, not even virgins over the age of 12. The report shocked the world, with British authorities investigating and arresting 27 men suspected of sexual assault, which is already half the number of men on the island.
From this point of view, the ideal place in the heart also needs to have a legal framework to maintain the balance of society. Otherwise, disorderly management is bound to lead to more extralegal places.