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...crew of H. M. S. Bounty mutinied in mid-Pacific, put Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal men into an open boat, sailed to Tahiti. Instead of starving or drowning, Captain Bligh and his sailors made a voyage of 4,000 miles back to England, sent a frigate to punish the mutineers. When the frigate reached Tahiti, only a few of the mutineers were there to be hanged. The rest had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island where they had beached and burned her and where their descendants still live...
...December 1787, H. M. S. Bounty, a British armed transport commanded by a brutal martinet named William Bligh, set sail from Spithead, England, for Tahiti, from which it was to take breadfruit plants to the West Indies. After leaving Tahiti two-thirds of the crew, led by the first officer, mutinied and abandoned Bligh and 18 of his supporters in a small boat equipped with oars and sail. Bligh and his companions won through to Kupang after 43 nightmarish days. Meantime the mutineers returned to Tahiti, whence nine of them set out again with a Tahitian princess for the first...
...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 soon proved his mettle. Rigidly keeping to his share of the starvation rations, he did much more than his share of the work, again & again saved them from foundering by skillful seamanship. When they landed at the island of Tofoa to replenish their water and food, the natives soon saw they were helpless and attacked. Only one of their men was lost in the getaway. Thereafter, from fear of savages, they gave many an inviting island a wide berth. As starvation knuckled down on them, mutinous voices muttered, but Bligh always silenced them, kept on. Cannibalism was never even...
Forty-one days they huddled on the thwarts or lay half-conscious in the bilge. At last they reached the Great Barrier Reef and, with no chart but Bligh's memory of a voyage with Captain Cook, found a passage through. In a happier dawn than the one that saw their hopeless start they sailed into the harbor of Coupang, with Bligh still at the tiller and none of them quite dead...