pitcairner

Updated: May 29, 2025

'I mean that when some one said, "Do you really mean to place those savage Melanesians among the immaculate Pitcairners?" the natural answer seemed to me to be, "I am not aware that you ever saw either a Pitcairner or a Melanesian." I thought it rather impertinent.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands