Frantic with grief, the unhappy Peggy (for so he had named her) flew with her infant in a canoe to the arms of her husband.

The interview was so affecting and afflicting, that the officers on board were overwhelmed with anguish, and Stewart himself, unable to bear the heartrending scene, begged she might not be admitted again on board.

She was separated from him by violence, and conveyed on shore in a state of despair and grief too big for utterance.

Withheld from him, and forbidden to come any more on board, she sunk into the deepest dejection; it preyed on her vitals; she lost all relish for food and life, rejoiced no more, pined under a rapid decay of two months, and fell a victim to her feelings, dying literally of a broken heart.

Her child is yet alive, and the tender object of our care, having been brought up by a sister, who nursed it as her own, and has discharged all the duties of an affectionate mother to the orphan infant.'[16] It does not appear that young Heywood formed any matrimonial engagement during his abode in Otaheite.