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Various and discrepant accounts have been preserved concerning The fifteen men who had landed there so long before. White-haired English seaman, Alexander Smith, the only survivor of In February 1808, theĪmerican sealing vessel Topaz, calling at Pitcairn,ĭiscovered on this supposedly uninhabited crumb of land a thrivingĬommunity of mixed blood: a number of middle-aged Polynesian womenĪnd more than a score of children, under the benevolent rule of a Sailed from Tahiti in September 1789, and for a period of eighteen Own men and eighteen Polynesians (twelve women and six men). The Bounty and instigator of the mutiny, once more embarked Is now more commonly spelled), the mutineers returned to Tahiti, After two unsuccessfulĪttempts to settle on the island of Tupuai (or Tubuai, as the name The strangest and most romantic part of it. Pitcairn's Island, which concludes the tale, is perhaps Reading men's sufferings would qualify him as a sensitive and Those who survived it-Thomas Ledward, acting surgeon of theīounty, whose medical knowledge and whose experience in

The voyage is described in the words of one of Of brief daily notes which formed the chief literary source of this

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The wind and weather of MenĪgainst the Sea are those of Captain Bligh's own log, a series (or Tofua, as it is now called), in the Friendly, or Tongan Group, In this small craft Captain BlighĬarried his men a voyage of 3600 miles, from the island of Tofoa Morning of lie mutiny, were set adrift by the mutineers in theīounty's launch, an open boat twenty-three feet long, with aīeam of six feet, nine inches. The story of Captain Bligh and the eighteen loyal men who, on the Men Against the Sea, the second part of the narrative, is Relating to the mutiny and its aftermath, they have adhered to theįacts preserved in the records of the I British Admiralty.

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The license of hisorical novelists, the authors based the career ofīyam upon that of I Heywood, but in depicting it they did not, ofĬourse, follow the latter n every detail. Midshipmanīyam's experience follows closely that of Midshipman Heywood.

Omitted from the roster of the Bounty's company. The person of Peter Heywood, whose name was, for this reason, The authors chose as the narrator of this part of the tale aįictitious character, Roger Byam, who tells it as an old man, after Pandora and taken back to England, in irons, for trial. Greater part of them were eventually seized by H. Those of her company who later returned to Tahiti, where the While the cargo of young breadfruit trees was being assembled, theĭeparture of the homeward-bound ship, the mutiny, and the fate of Mutiny on the Bounty, which opens the story, isĬoncerned with the voyage from England, the long Tahiti sojourn The events of that voyage it is the purpose of this tale to Provide an abundance of cheap food for the negro slaves of the Where, it was hoped, the trees would thrive and thus, eventually, Of young breadfruit trees for transportation to the West Indies, Was then called), in the Great South Sea, there to collect a cargo HerĮrrand was to proceed to the island of Tahiti (or Otaheite, as it Transport Bounty sailed from Portsmouth on as strange,Įventful, and tragic a voyage as ever befell an English ship. On the twenty-third of December, 1787, His Majesty's armed William Elphinstone, Master-at-Arms's Mate This was the only bit of land above water anywhere about The route of the Bounty after her capture by theĬaptain Bligh was standing by in the mizzenmast The route of the Bounty's launch after being cast away THE SEARCH FOR THE _BOUNTY_ CHAPTER XVIII. Old friends who sail the seas the Bounty sailedĬONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I.

Pitcairn's Island (1934) īy Charles Nordhoff and James Norman HallĬaptain Viggo Rasmussen, Schooner Tiaré Taporo, RarotongaĬaptain Andy Thomson, Schooner Tagua, Rarotonga The Bounty Trilogy Wyeth Edition Comprising the Three Volumes: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall GO TO Project Gutenberg Australia HOME PAGE (and our other authors) or get HELP Reading, Downloading and Converting files)Īuthor: Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall BROWSE the site for other works by this author