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One day, Arthur and his best friend, Daniel McCoy, swam out to a rock a considerable distance from the shore, and there agreed to seek each one the other's sister for a wife. That place is now known as 'Tane M'A' (Place of the men's agreement).| This is the same Arthur Quintal who treated another sister, Jane, so harshly when she 'strayed from the path of virtue', that Jane left the island never to return.| When Captain Beechey was on the island in 1808, he was the 'Leader of the Pitcairn Band'. He sat on the ground before a large gourd, and with his toes, he worked a piece of musical wood (Porou) and he beat the gourd with two sticks held in his hands. Later, he was a strong opponent of Joshua Hil