Word: bligh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brig whose voyage to Tahiti and back was cut short in the Pacific by mutiny. In Mutiny on the Bounty (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932) Authors Nordhoff & Hall told the first part of the tale. Men against the Sea is a straightforward but circumstantial account of what happened to Captain Bligh and his men when the mutineers cast them off in an open boat in the mid-Pacific. (The final part, Pitcairn's Island, will be published this autumn.) Though Daniel Defoe still has a long lead, Authors Nordhoff & Hall are worthy followers of his tradition...
...Mutiny on the Bounty Captain Bligh was pictured as a villainous slavedriver. Men against the Sea shows him every inch a hero. The transformation is made plausible because this time the narrator is one of Bligh's most loyal followers. When at dawn on April 28, 1789, two-thirds of the Bounty's crew mutinied and put Captain Bligh and 18 men adrift in a ship's boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away...
...Bligh, commander of the Bounty, was a man of ungovernable temper and crazy severity. He had his men flogged at the slightest excuse, short-changed them on their miserable rations, got himself mur- derously hated. Trouble was brewing all the long voyage out, but nothing broke till the Bounty had left Tahiti. Then one night two-thirds of the crew mutinied, put Bligh and his supporters in a dangerously crowded open boat and let them take a chance on reaching land. Narrator Byam was one of several non-mutineers who had to stay with the ship. The Bounty then returned...
Byam married a native girl, lived in Tahiti happily 18 months. As soon as a British ship appeared, he and his pals went trustingly to greet it were much surprised to be clapped in irons, treated like mutineers and pirates. Bligh and his open boat had gone 2,000 miles to land, thence shipped to England, and had denounced all the men who had not accompanied him in the boat as mutineers. On the voyage home Byam's ship was wrecked, some of the prisoners drowned...
Willed. By the late George Fisher Baker (TIME, May 11) : $60,000,000 to his son George Fisher Baker Jr.; $5,000,000 to his daughter Mrs. Howard Bligh St. George; $5,000,000 to his daughter Mrs. William Goadby Loew. To charity he left $550,000; to his secretary $25,000; to faithful servants, $68,500.* To his granddaughter, Florence Loew, he willed his country place at Tuxedo, New York...