- To Pitcairn Island Home Page In 1789, when the HMS Bounty arrived at Tahiti and set to work collecting the breadfruit plantings they were planning to take to the West Indies, they were working shoulder-to-shoulder with the Tahitian people. For six months, these British seamen, most of whom had never been in the South Pacific, were living among the people of the Island, and had to find ways to ...www.lareau.org/pitlang.html